Rewind two years

So two years ago, I would have actually finished my GCSE's, so I guess rewind about 27 months, that's where this post belongs.
For my textiles GCSE coursework I had the choice to make whatever I wanted to, which was a dress of course, and due to cost and time restraints I settled on a child's dress.
My theme for this was ragdoll, again self chosen, due to a visit to my adorable younger cousin's house, where they each had a brand new ragdoll.

I was looking for a theme, which was original as well as girly, without crossing into the stereotypical "flowers", "sweets and cakes" or "animals".

My original idea was to have the dress with a matching rag doll to sell with it, but dress making is really my forte, and so I discarded my attempt at a doll.

I wanted to use pink (to keep the girliness present) so I went fabric shopping and successfully found some pink gingham with matching pink cotton for the dress, I also found a nice darker pink ribbon.

I knew that I wanted to have a doll or doll's face applique design on the dress and also had an idea of a pocket.

It took months to complete the dress along with all the paperwork required. Luckily my only faux pas was burning a hole through the lovely pink gingham and having to start the entire torso of the dress again.

Isn't she adorable! My mum works at my old primary school so I asked her to find a model for my dress.
I'm still pretty proud of this even if I can't show it off on myself,
maybe one day, when I'm old I'll shrink and be small enough to wear it?