This project was inspired by my ongoing, life-long struggle with insomnia and anxiety.

Dressing Cinderella for her photoshoot in her gold-plated metal costume.

The work on the one of a kind auction doll Serenity continues!

Not each firing is successful, and not all hard work gets a rightly earned reward.

Just like a human shoulder, if a doll shoulder is over-rotated inside its socket, it can sometimes dislocate.

I updated the traditional lace-up method, with a simpler and more elegant solution - snaps! It now takes a fraction of the time and only a few simple hand motions to corset and un-corset a doll!

The very first, original Sapphire from 2007 is always on my work table, with other beautiful objects that make my eyes happy.

I really love antique glass enamel jewelry on gold, because of its’ resemblance to porcelain and china paint

China paint, layer 6. Painting one of my custom nude orders. I enjoy using the dainty blush mop to spread out the paint globs on the little porcelain cheeks until they turn into a soft and translucent blush.

Returning to Serenity, the next auction doll!

Shoes for Cinderella. Hand-carved, cast in bronze and plated with 24k yellow gold. I love to dress my porcelain dolls in precious and semi-precious metals.

When I carved these bra cups from jeweller’s wax years ago, I didn’t plan on putting ribbons in them, but the spacing between metal…

How I made the gold-plated ribbon work corset for the final custom Cinderella In Gold doll.

Cinderella in gold 2024 was a special commission for a collector who loved the original 2009 closed limited edition. Her costuming is one of a kind, to differentiate her from the earlier edition doll.

A collector asked me to create a custom Cinderella doll inspired by my limited 2009 Cinderella edition. I was reluctant to plagiarize myself, but wanted to fulfill my collector’s dream

This doll is going in for a high temperature firing, which is when porcelain slip vitrifies into glass and shrinks 20%.

This is a wax sculpture of a new Doll shadow box I’m currently making. It’s based on a well-known fairy tale character. Can you guess which one based on the ornamentation? Here’s a hint - she is a villain.

Wet cleaning a soft-fired porcelain doll head. It's as fragile as an egg shell in this stage.

Cleaning porclain doll parts during a snowstorm

Pouring porcelain slip into plaster molds.