At first Jo was just a paper mâché torso I had made last year, with a body stuffed with newspapers and plastic bags. But I decided to give her a body worth waiting for. The arms were separate, from a Halloween display I had slapped together a few years before.
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Below, this is Jo as she first ended up. Just a minimal torso with a head.
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Josette is part papier mâché and part polyfill-stuffed cloth and part Apoxie-sculpt, plus other materials. Here she is before I dressed her.
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Josette is almost finished here (just need to do a little tinkering.)