In Memorium

The beautiful pink and white angel ensemble has been all packed up, and is ready to go off to it's new home. With it being a very special project, I had really wanted to take some special photos, 
so spent much of Tuesday working on them, setting up my dining room table, digging through my old art samples for a tissue-paper 'stained glass window', preparing candles, making everything perfect. Here's Hope in the finished angel ensemble....

This angel ensemble was very special. My customer requested it as a way to honour the memory of her best friend who died of breast cancer. She asked for a white dress, with pink accents symbolic of the disease that took her friend.

Now it just so happens, that two of my most recent dolls, which I acquired last year - Leona and Efreet - were purchased from this same customer.  In fact Efreet actually belonged to her friend who had died, and she was selling him on behalf of her friend's widower. Well, right from the beginning, I felt this project was inspired by some unseen hand, and I kept imagining my Efreet in the embrace of this angel. 

So after photographing Hope in the dress, I put it on my Leona. She looked gorgeous in it, but I had to find another, smaller, hair wreath, so borrowed one from one of my fairies..... 

So then it was time to try take photos of the scenes I'd imagined while I was working on the dress. It took much of the day. Setting up a pose, carefully lighting the candles, taking a few photos, then carefully blowing out the candles again before changing the poses. I was terrified that I'd have an accident with the candles and the dress would catch fire, or I'd get wax on it. But no, throughout all the separate sessions, everything went perfectly, and I had my own symbolic tribute.....