The rain keeps falling down and the
weather has been changing so recently, this caused some problems for the mold
making. The Victoria face has been remade 3 times that I found some problems
here and there on her face sculpts. The works go so slowly and I sometimes feel
that lucks didn’t come to my way much. Now, I have another processes of the
Queen Victoria to show us all here. As we know that she’s the Queen, Victoria
is supposed to have her own crown. Originally, I had an intention to have a
crown with no much of decoration. I have talked to a person I once met in the
Doll fête in Bangkok, K.Siri ,through the Viber that I was making a doll theme
related to Queen Elizabeth I costume. He suddenly sent me a picture of a model
(could be Lilly Cole if I was not wrong) wearing an elegant crown. That crown
in the picture looked so special as it has some small tiny branches ( straight
wires come out from the crown) and there are some stars, small kinds of planets
at the top of the wires. It could symbolize that at that time England was like
the sun that it’s the centre of the universe. (This is just my opinion). So I
came up to the idea that I should do this kind of crown that it has small
branches like the picture that K. Siri has sent to me. Thank you to him here.
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| It seems that the crown needs more branches. |
It’s
good that the branches piece can be removed as a separated item to the main
crown. The crown has 8 line parts and each part is decorated with violet, pink
and white diamonds. At the front line part, there is a big cross figure as well
as at the top of the crown, too. When it attached to the small branches part, it
looks very elegant, and also when it stands alone.
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| I love this crown in real:-) |
So
now let’s see The Queen Victoria’s costume. I choose the silver-grey synthetic
silk and all the materials, such as beads, tinsels, threads, and modals in
silver and grey color, to make an elegant costume for her. From the picture, I
decided to add the neck collar to make the costume become more beautiful. At
the beginning, I tried to use the wire, cut and bent them in the shape, U
shaped like a fan for the neck collar, but I found it’s not strong enough to
hold the neck piece. Now I have another plan that I will share with us all
again here when it’s completely done. (Yes, it’s now on the beading works:-) At the upper arms of the costume, I slowly put the laces and then add some silver beading works in a small line between them. And there's more beading works at the sleeves as well. However, I think the triangle chest part, the scale is quite small. So I need to make it a bit more longer than this one...sign
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| It needs chiffon, and some more beadings around the lace. |
And the final thing that I'd like to sahre us here tonight, is the doll's shoes.
For her shoes, I need to coat them into silver so
that the costume and the shoes will perfectly fit each other. The shoes contain
of the diamonds color group as the crown piece; violet, pink and white. These
are the current shoes that they have the highest heel that I have ever had.
They really look fabulous and I have tired them on a doll and I got so happy,
very happy to see something so beautiful like a fairy tale.
And this is the other picture of the side look of the shoe.
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| Looks like a fairytale's shoes? |
The shoes have not been
coated yet. When they are finished, they would be so shiny and perfect for Victoria. The costume and the
accessories for my Victoria doll almost have been finished. But,. well the doll
face and body are still in the porcelain slip process and they need to be put into the
firing process. They are waiting my hands to slowly give body blushing, face
painting and wigging. How can I move on while the rain keeps falling down??? Poor me:-(
Thank you very much for you time to everyone here/Nune
