from hands to heart

It's been a really long time since my last update here... I have been posting pictures of my porcelain BJD in progress on facebook and Flickr, so please take a look at the pictures to see more of what I have already done! Well now it is so close to see her finished, I just can't wait... I've been dreaming about this for over a year!
Also, I would like to announce my new website: http://www.DollEssence.com which is dedicated to the BJDs only. It is still in construction but there is a form there that you can fill in to receive a notification as soon as my doll is available for purchase, before I make it public. These dolls take too much time, love and patient to make so I am not sure how many I will be able to make within a month, maybe one or two. That's why the "First to know list" is a good thing if you are interested in my dolls, you might be one of the first to order and your doll will be with you sooner.

I like this picture as much as it hurts to remember that I broke her foot. This is my first complete-fired-to-maturity-porcelain-doll. I broke her foot while I was stringing her, I accidentaly let it fall on the floor. Fortunately she was only a test-firing doll, she is not perfect and there are some adjustments that I am making on the wax model now. But I hate the fact that I lost her foot because I know how much work it was!
While she holds her broken foot I can't help but imagine what she is thinking...It looks like she is wondering whether she has any similarity with Cinderella... "Wasn't I supposed to lose the little glass slipper?"

My work has been featured in Dolls Magazine Special Edition - Encyclopedia Artistica - summer 2011! I feel so honored to be among those amazing Doll Artists! ♥
You can view the digital magazine here:
viewer.zmags.com/publication/c46f86ee#/c46f86ee/1

Meu trabalho foi publicado pela segunda vez na revista internacional Dolls Magazine - Edição Especial, verão 2011. Me sinto honrada em estar neste artigo entre tantos artistas maravilhosos! Meu trabalho está na página 34 e 35.
para ver a revista digital clique abaixo:
viewer.zmags.com/publication/c46f86ee#/c46f86ee/1

I am very pleased with my decision to include this procedure in the creation of my porcelain ball jointed doll. I was amazed by the advantages of making wax castings before the final porcelain casting. I guess the only disadvantage is the extra work and that it takes longer to finish the project. But I am pretty sure the results will worth it. Working with wax is very messy, look at my desk!

Working with porcelain has been the most challenging experience to me. This is one of the reasons why I am taking so long to finish this project. I want to be satisfied with my doll and that means a lot, I am a bit too perfectionist... I've lost track of how many test castings I have made, but I know I've failed a lot of times. I felt discouraged sometimes, so tired to see another set of doll parts going to trash. But there is beauty everywhere... porcelain and I have slowly started to get along well, understanding each other and allowing each one of us to go a little deeper in our relationship. ♥
I took this picture because I thought it was beautiful to see the doll parts together while they are drying. Unfortunately these pieces were part of my failure proccess.
So I keep trying, never giving up. Until I can make myself happy.