17 December, 2009 3:34PM AEST

Making babies the uncanny way

Not sure what to say when you get the question: where do babies come from? A new Mirani club has quite the uncanny answer.

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The population in the Pioneer Valley town of Mirani isn't huge, but a new club is crafting a way to get a few more babies into the region.

Kirsty Black brings a wealth of experience to the club having made around 200 babies in the last few years, and has already set up a similar club in Southern Tasmania.

Although lifelike the babies in question are not real, they're know as: re-born dolls, but they have an amazing real life resemblance.

The babies can either be crafted from clay or come from a vinyl preset; each baby usually requires 40 layers of paint with each coat being heat set via a conventional oven.

Around the babies some people find themselves either drifting into the realm of the uncanny or admiring a beautiful replica of life at its most precious.