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Cleaning and preparing the Silver Vertebrae Pendant

January 02, 2024 in Jewelry
 

The free flowing pendant has 16 vertebrae and 15 joints. It’s always dancing while I’m wearing it or when I can’t stop playing with it. In the video it goes through a patina process and then cleaned in a magnetic tumbler and then a rotary tumbler to give it that nice shine. The pendants are available in Silver and in Bronze

 
Tags: video, jewelry, spine
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Signing the Enchanted Doll books

November 01, 2023 in Book, Video
Signing the Enchanted Doll books

A short video of me signing and stamping the Enchanted Doll Publisher Edition book

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Tags: book, video, stamping, signing
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Water Lotuses

October 28, 2023 in Work in Progress

Still making many tiny beaded water lotuses. The repetition of construction without seeing any evidence of the final composition is getting a bit tedious after a few weeks of making these.

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Tags: bead, lotus, flowers, work in progress, beadwork
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Enchanted Doll Book - Publisher Edition

October 25, 2023 in Book

This signed and numbered limited edition of 500 covers the first decade of work of Enchanted Doll, 190 pages, hard bound, high quality offset printing on heavy art paper.

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Tags: book, prints, poster, sale
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Serenity

September 07, 2023 in New Doll

Finishing this porcelain beautify ‘Serenity’ for an eBay auction later this fall!

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Tags: serenity, doll
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Theodora Rex: From circus dancer to Empress-Saint.

July 16, 2023 in New Doll
Theodora Rex: From circus dancer to Empress-Saint.

Empress Theodora was a truly remarkable, accomplished, influential and impressive woman. She is a Byzantine-age feminist icon, a progressive reformer, and a real life Cinderella story!

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Tags: theodora, dance, video, empress
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Little Red Riding Hood lost in the forest.

June 14, 2023 in Work in Progress

I’ve been working on a Little Red photo series to illustrate and publish one of my favourite fairy tales!

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Tags: doll, photoshoot, redriding, nature, forest
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Theodora’s Gown Construction

April 03, 2023 in New Doll, Work in Progress

Abandoning several months of work and starting over from scratch was a very hard decision to make, but it had to be done, sunk cost fallacy be damned!! I’ll talk more about why I made this decision in upcoming posts.
Stand by for more unveiling and enjoy!

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Tags: doll, work in progress, beadwork, beads, Theodora
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“Reincarnation” crown on the White Peacock doll

February 13, 2023 in New Doll

“Reincarnation” crown on the White Peacock doll. I made and shot this piece a few months ago in grief and in celebration of the life, to get through a terrible and painful loss that I’ve been stuck in.

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Tags: peacock, crown, reincarnation, doll
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Texturing a canvas print

January 08, 2023

exturing a canvas print with layers of transparent gel, to make it look like an expressionist oil painting.

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Snowstorm

December 31, 2022 in New Doll

My last photo series of 2022, with my current work-in-progress doll, Theodora.

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Tags: snow, doll, ice, photoshoot
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Theodora Glows in the Golden Hour.

November 17, 2022

I’m applying hundreds of shiny scales to her royal robe, to resemble the golden Byzantine mosaics in churches

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Empress Theodora of Constantinople

October 31, 2022

looking very Elvish on my work table. I think she is channeling the radiant Lady Arwen at the moment, bathed in the light of the Ilúvatar.

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“Rebirth and Reincarnation” Reliquary

October 12, 2022

I painted a celestial veil of shimmering stars on her face and in her eyes, to symbolize a vast and timeless glittering multiverse of endless cosmic possibilities.

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New face of Peacock post accident

September 29, 2022 in New Doll

The Original head was painted after my Sapphire doll. After I dropped and fractured it, I took it as a sign

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Tags: white peacock, face, compare
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Losing Self

September 24, 2022 in New Doll

A mournful photo series titled “Losing Self”. For one to be born, the first one had to die. Destruction is a form of creation.

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Tags: peacock, tattoo, bjd, new doll, loss, white peacock
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Hair styling for White Peacock.

September 16, 2022

I use only natural fibres such as Mohair, Angora Goat and Silk for my dolls’ wigs; Never synthetics, as I just don’t like the synthetic aesthetic and I don’t think it suits fine porcelain very well.

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White Peacock

September 15, 2022 in New Doll

The White Peacock is now SOLD. Her enormous white tattoo on a white porcelain body was quite a challenge to render, but I’m very proud of the result

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Tags: peacock tattoo, tattoo, peacock, bjd, doll
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White Peacock Rising!

July 12, 2022

First studio shots with more to come. A special custom commission for a special collector, this porcelain doll features the biggest ceramic engraving I’ve ever attempted!

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A hint of what’s to come!

June 26, 2022

I’m over the moon for this bird of paradise!

 
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