Dressing Cinderella for her photoshoot in her gold-plated metal costume. Which part of her outfit is your favourite? Corset, bra, collar, shoes, or skirt?

The work on the one of a kind auction doll Serenity continues! I’ve filmed a series of shorts, documenting the making her one of a kind gown, shoes and accessories. Here, I’m curling her soft and silky Angora goat hair wig into a luscious vintage 1930s hair style to give her that Shanghai glamour!

Opening a kiln after each china-paint firing makes me feel like kid on Christmas morning, running to see what surprises Santa brought me. In this case inside my kiln are my rewards for many hours of hard work! 😃 I inspect them piece by piece, and do a happy dance when all have turned out

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 worked out as if they were always meant to be there. The cups are cast in bronze and plated with 24k gold, while the ribbon is polyester.

How I made the gold-plated ribbon work corset for the final custom Cinderella In Gold doll. Up to this point I've never integrated metal and ribbons into one composition to this extent before, but I love this result, so I'll be doing more of it in the future.

In this photoshoot I wanted to capture a surreal and magical dreamscape of Cinderella’s experience at a spectacular masked ball, filtered through her feelings of uncertainty, courage, euphoria and wonder.