Paper Mache Doll-Body Parts

I was very anticipatory the next morning, I'd removed the balloon the night before, removed her from the bottle and laid her on the side that was most dry. Here's what she looked like with a light sand. (amazingly enough she was quite hard, and light!) The inside hadn't completely dried must to my surprise!?!! But I could see light spots in her head where the paper mache got thin, I also needed to mache underneath the breast plate. Even though it's not going to be seen I feel the more the reinforcement, the better. Before I dragged out my torn newspaper and paste, I might as well as scale the size and prepare the limbs.

This is my materials for my arms and legs, much to my delight I found sheet rock tape kicking around, just waiting for me to grab it!

I fashioned a set of fingers out of cardboard, glued it to my wire, wrapped with batting and secured with the sheet rock tape. It sticks soooo well to the batting! My other alternative was thread, but I'd been forever wrapping, this was much easier. I forgot to say, put your paste in a air tight container, this way it will last.

How time consuming these are! As a matter of fact....dare I say they are harder to do then the head!?! Most of my time was spent spinning the limb in a tight grip so to "skinny" up the long bones. Then what a horrible time I had trying to match the foot size, which BTW is going to be clad in shoes. Jack of all trades made fun of me by calling it club foot. Har! Har! Har!.....Hard, hard, hard!

I applied small bits of paper to the areas I needed to complete on the head and then finger applied the paste as thick as I could, all over.

Oh, something came to me in the middle of the night.....

I added a surprise to the head. C&G Design.