The making of the Coral Fan Crown

The making of the coral fan crown in Sterling Silver for Sirena via the lost wax casting method. First I made rubber molds of coral branches, then I took wax impressions from those molds and cut and fused together the coral parts into various combinations. Assembled into a fan crown, crossed my fingers, and hoped that it would turn out in metal. And it did!

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Sirena Emerges From the Sea

New costumed porcelain doll available for sale in July. Get in touch with me by email if you're interested (address in bio). I tried some new things with this doll, one of which was submerging her in salt water for this photoshoot. I got more awesome photos coming from the depths. .

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Quarantine Diary 9

Netflix and molds. This is the last stage of my new costumed doll that I've been working on for the past two months since quarantine began. I'm injecting modular components of her costume for lost wax casting while binge watching Ripper Street. I love problem solving to a backdrop of crime solving (already burned through Murdoch Mysteries TWICE!)

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