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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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!

“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.