It almost seemed like finding the liquid starch was going to be impossible…but I finally came home and called the parent company to ask them if they could tell me a specific location in my area that had it…and off we went. It took 2 more stops, but we finally found it!
After coming back home, I started to mold the mermaid from balloons and newspaper. Amelia helped by handing me pieces of masking tape.
Here are a few of the beginning stages of the molding process:
Amelia showing off the tail…
And holding the entire mermaid after sculpting the upper body. A few more pieces of tape and we were almost ready to go!
Now for the Sta-Flo liquid starch…I could have used flour and water [which would have been much cheaper] but the humidity in S. Florida is way too high to get a really nice hard covering!
And one last shot after working on part of the lower body! It will take days [and many many layers] before this mermaid will be finished and ready to make beautiful!
Will post more pics of this process as we go along!
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