It was when she visited a doll show and saw some hand-sculpted dolls made of polymer clay that she immediately enrolled in a sculpting class and since that time, she has sculpted her own one-of-a-kind dolls. She quickly developed her own style, tried all different types of clay and settled on Polymer clay.

Jannie has been sculpting since 1994 and her baby dolls since 1999, have been well known worldwide. She quickly developed her own style, tried all different types of clay and settled on Polymer clay, which she mixes from different colors and from her own experience, to achieve her realistic skin tone. This Polymer clay needs a lot of kneading and it takes a long time and a lot of preparation before it is soft enough to be used. Before the sculpted head can be baked in the oven, she treats the clay in her own special way to imitate the skin texture as realistic as possible. Her baby dolls have become immensely popular worldwide. The head, arms/hands and legs and “Belly-plate” are sculpted of a polymer-clay while the body is made of cotton. She stuffs and weighs them to feel like a real baby. The babies have glass blown eyes, human hair eyelashes and wear high quality mohair wigs. The sizes of her babies vary from 18" to 22". Naturally, all come with a Certificate of Authenticity. The back of the doll's head bears her trademark, the letters J & L tied together in a bow.

Jannie is a perfectionist and puts great effort in sculpting life-like babies. Her babies are very realistic and her sculpting is perfectly detailed, from head to toe. The dreamy-melancholic faces of her babies have captured many hearts of admirers around the world. Inspired by her own three children at a younger age - by children in her neighborhood and her grandchildren, she challenges herself to sculpt her babies in the most natural poses. Jannie loves doing various expressions just keep on enjoying sculpting. Each of her one-of-a-kind babies, are individually sculpted and molds are never used.