My name is Danielle Zweers 46 years old and married with Cor and the mom of

four children named: Bart, Tim, Sara and Dana.

I live in a town called Almere in the Netherlands.

I come from an artistic family of oil painters, my dad and my grandmother of

my

mother's site, and some uncles.

As long as I can remember my dad was always painting and drawing portraits,

you can say I was raised between the paint brushes, linen and the picture

frames.

Therefore I was also busy with drawing painting and trying to make clothes

for my dolls.

I made my first own doll in 1977 at the age of 17 and that was my first step

into the world of dolls, I made fantasy dolls at that time and never took

courses so I developed my own style of doll making. I had a second passion

too and that was making my own clothes so I took classes at the school of

dress design and graduated successfully. I could now make my own patterns

and children clothing.

In 2002 I began to sculpt realistic life-size babies of polymer clay,and

thats what I do...sculpting my dolls and make allot of pictures of them.  Im

proud to announce that I work now for the  Secrist Dolls Inc Company located

in Michigan Midland USA. Im one of theire exclusive doll designers.