Sandra Gilbert Becomes a Mother

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sandra.jpgOne of our prominent community members has some wonderful news to share. Sandra Gilbert, editor of BlenderArt Magazine, has given life to a daughter.

Sandra writes:

Jessica Lin Gilbert entered the world September 25, 2006 at 9:03 am She weighed 6 lbs 1 oz and was 21 inches long.

We came home from the hospital the very next day and have been doing a lot of sleeping and eating (baby and mommy :-P ). We are doing great.

Welcome to the world, little one – you’re in for quite a ride. And congratulations to your parents! These must be happy but tiring times for them..

I say: bring on the Blender baby cards! :)

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    • http://animationbytim.net Room335

      Congratulations Sandra!

      Is that baby 1.0 or 2.42a? :-)

    • http://www.dxi-studios.de FastEddy

      Congratulations!

    • http://www.enricovalenza.com EnV

      Congrats, and welcome to Jessica. :)

    • Nicho

      Sandra,

      Congratulations! What is even more amazing is that I have also become father on the same day! My daughter was born on 25 September @ 9:07, South African time (GMT+2).

      All the best – I can relate to the ‘pajama patrol’.

      Regards,
      Fellow Blenderer,
      Nicho Bouma.

    • Alvaro Luna

      Hi, congrats Sandra! She is cute!

    • tmr232

      Congratulations!
      She is so cute!

    • http://www.nonakassenaar.nl Joeri

      Congratulations.
      Well, you can always sleep again in a year or twenty.

    • Calvin

      Congratulations indeed!
      Happy Birthday Jessica!

    • Garland-Waide Bradford

      Congrads. Hope all the best for you both and may you be blessed in all you do.

    • http://www.p3d-service.de Crossmaker

      Congratulations!

    • http://www.nathan.nl.tt JD-Multi

      Whoow, oure blender community keep growing day by day. ;)
      Congratulations Sandra. :D

    • http://www.konrad-haenel.de konrad8ha

      So there ARE other ways of creating things besides using Blender! Whaddayaknow.

      Congratulations!

    • http://www.waarhebikrechtop.nl dotblend

      i’m also born on the 25th…

      better prepare, cause you’re in for quite a ride…

      congrats, have fun…

    • draw

      Congrats!!!
      The baby will be the youngest blenderhead :D

    • http://gunnarstahl.org Gunnar Stahl

      She looks so … *real*, so very photorealistic! Can you post a wireframe, please?

      All the best for you and your family! Enjoy the coming time of sleepless nights!

      Yt,

      Gunnar

    • James

      She look so precious. She will difinatly bring lots of joy into your life.

    • Alek

      Welcome sweet girl:)

    • http://www.thoro.de thoro

      Congratulations, Sandra!

    • Michael Crawford

      Congratulations. How long did that take to render? More importantly, How did you get blender to do SSS? And such fabulous texturing…. Seriously: I wish you the very best and hope your child will bring you oodles of joy.

    • hitaro

      CONGRATULATIONS!!!Hi Baby welcome to the blender world!!!

    • blendercross

      Congratulations!!!!!!!!! :)

    • Vassilios Boucer

      Congratulations Sandra….and all the best!!

    • Pixel81k

      Hioo!!! Great – i wish you two the very best …. have a nice start, Jessica, be proud, Sandra

      @Sandra:
      1. keep this comments and give them to Jessica on the 10th birthday
      2. u know, what to do in sleepless nights: blendermagazins – thank you for all your work!
      3. i know that in THIS case sleepless nights can’t be used to be productive ;-)

    • criss

      Congratulations! :)

    • Alex_G

      Congratulations Sandra!

      Good luck for the future Jessica :)

    • http://humanforum.com humanforum

      Such a nice way to bring in the new day…reading wonderful news for a change.

      A challenge for all you blender-heads out there…

      Lets see if we can make a better world for this newest member of the blender community…and all those that follow.

      Congrats :)

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      Very nice model ! Not even some double vertices to remove !

      Congratulations Sandra.

    • CJD2

      Felicitaciones , hermosa bebé!!!! Bienvenida al mundo y a Blender!!!

    • mitke

      Congratulations!

      Good luck for the Jessica and Sandra!

    • Cortot

      Congratulations!

      Some years and she can read the blenderart magazine ;)

    • Lasphere

      Congrats Sandra, :D

      And Nicho ofcourse, :D

    • Terence

      Congratualtions Sandra. I can relate to the tiredness. My third son was born two days after your daughter, and it just gets harder being up at all hours as I get older.

    • http://www.blenderart.org Sandra aka dreamsgate

      Thanks for all the kind comments.

      And no, she isn’t my first, she is my 3rd. I also have a 17 year old son and a 14 year old daughter. Hubby also has a 14 year old son.

      But since it has been so long, we actually feel like first time parents again. :P

      It has been a week of fun, no sleep and lots of joy. :)

    • greboide

      cool, might be like the first one after all these years, i have one too, but he is only almost one year, in fact his birthday is next week.

      Congratulations and the best of all for your children.

    • http://www.venomgfx.com.ar venomgfx

      Congratulations!!

      welcome Jess! hope to see you in a few years into the community!

    • http://www.davidrevoy.com David Revoy

      Congrats Sandra !
      Welcome Jessica. :-)

    • Vimal Kurup

      Congrats Sandra :)

    • Simon

      Congratulations!!!

    • IBKanat

      Congratulations!

    • kit89

      Congratulations, Sandra! :D

      Best to start teaching her the Blender Interface now. ;)

    • JWilde

      Congratulations Sandra! Lots of health, happiness and bliss to you and your lovely baby!!! May she have a happy and wonderful life!

      John

    • http://scmyk.free.fr Micool

      Whow great news !
      Congratulations, hope the dad and the mum are fine and that Jessy will come to blender as soon as possible to become the youngest blender defendress ! ( do not pay attention to what I say: I’m to tired to be wise ! )
      I’m sure Jessy will have a lot of love around her ;-) !
      Sylvain

    • Wim

      Congratulations!

    • Roger

      I think we all love Blender because it allows us to create. But truly, the woman has the ultimate ability to create. Us guys can only be geeky creating virtual reality, but you women have us men hands down when it comes to creating actual reality. Enjoy and God Bless!

    • http://raventale.blogspot.com RonaldP

      Congratulations, and get ready for long and sleepless nights 8-)

    • Martinv

      Congratulations Sandra!
      Best wishes for the future!

      And congratulations to Nicho too!

      Martinv

    • http://blenderforyou.org ShiftingClouds

      Yeah !
      With a mom like you she can only become someone who will give to this world and make it better.

      Keep up the good work :)

      Jean

    • GBOI

      CONGRATS!
      I’m hoping to see it’s own column in the blender mag :P

    • http://www.jasonmhirst.co.uk ~J~

      Hey congratulations Sandra, here’s to a fantastic future together.

    • http://salvador.mata.com.mx Mataii

      Hey! great! :D

      As JD-Multi says, a new member for the blender community ;)

      Congratulations Sandra! :D

    • kijja

      Yes,Congratulations! :)

    • http://nope endragiri

      welcome to new member of the blender world jess,
      long live to mother

    • LetterRip

      yet another congrats and well wisher :)

      LetterRip

    • zooley

      Congrats Sara. Being mother, or father in my case, is the greatest thing in the whole life.
      I wish all the best for your baby, Sandra!

    • http://applegrew.blogspot.com/ AppleGrew

      Congratulation!! :|)

    • Morenike-Jo

      Congratulations!!

      She looks like a heart breaker

    • dave62

      juhu something REAL…

      gratulatione and thx 4 ur great work…

    • antiguy

      congratulations! hope both Sandra and Jessica are doing really great. many thanks to Sandra for all her great work on BlenderArt magazine, and congratulations once again!

    • tray

      Congrats from me also. I had to comment. Not just to show my appreciation of the fine mag you produce but also manage a family.
      Well done.
      Wishing all your family well.

    • http://omarmodesto.tripod.com Omar Modesto

      Congratulations!

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      *lol*
      I think it needed 9 months to render, but now it works in REALTIME and TRUECOLOUR without even a short lag^^
      Congratulations!
      Jessica is a nice Name!

      What Does Your Name Mean

      JESSICA

      Origin: Hebrew
      Meaning: God’s Grace
      Woman of Wealth
      Peace
      god sees

      Wikipedia says something very interesting:
      Jessica is a name from the Hebrew Yiskah (יִסְכָּה), name of a daughter of Haran, meaning “the Lord beholds” or “the Lord’s gift.”

      The Hebrew root sakhah (ס.×›.×”) means “to see,” so the name Yiskah, with the added yud, implies foresight or clairvoyance. There is midrash by Rashi suggesting that Yiskah is also a name for Sarah, so the meaning of this name makes sense for two reasons: people would gaze at her beauty, and she was known to be a prophetess. The name Jessica also stands for wealth.

    • dmoc

      Congratulations!

    • Gaurav Nawani

      Congrats Sandra!

      I dont call you blendermom for nothing ;)
      - Gaurav

    • hassan the moroccan

      happy for this woman who proved herself more of worth to blender community almost like mother nourishing starved minds in blender community with new concepts and creative ideas.sure she will be a great mother. salam alaykom / peace on you

    • http://www.DreadKnight666.com Dread Knight

      Best wishes! :)