Madeline's two right legs

My Madeline leg transplant is already done a week ago.

Now she has two right legs, hehe. There are incisions on her left thigh, but I filled in the gaps with paper clay. It hardened in time but it is very noticeable because my paper clay is white.

My sister gave me her acrylic paints from her college days. I noticed she didn't have white paint, so I bought a new tube. Then I mixed some paint and tried to match Maddie's skin color. I painted on the paper clay and now it's not as noticeable as before.

It doesn't bother me that Maddie looks like this. Soon I'll be able to make clothes for her and her thighs will definitely be hidden.

Beside her is a pair of clogs I made with paper clay. It turned out to be a failure. The part that covers the toes cracked when I tried to remove Ghoulia's feet from the clay. Oh well, it was done on the first time. Lots of things to take note when I try to make shoes next time.

Some work in progress

I'm actually working on a number of projects. I tend to get bored or unmotivated to work on the same thing over and over so I jumpstart other projects I have in mind. It takes me a while but I'd rather work like this and still be inspired and motivated, than push myself to finish just one project yet produce half-assed results because I rushed things out of boredom.

Anyway, here are some things I thought I'd work on tonight.

I decided to make shoes for Ghoulia Yelps (She has no forearms and hands when I got her). I used paper clay and it took a lot of moulding and smoothing to shape the clay around her feet. I wrapped her feet with cling wrap beforehand. I think I should have also dabbed some petroleum jelly afterwards so that it would be much more convenient to get the shoes off of her feet once they're dry, but nah. Maybe I can wing it.

Madeline Hatter doesn't have a left leg when I found her, but on a different occasion I found another Madeline Hatter with a missing left leg, so what I did is I removed the remaining leg from the second Maddie and I plan to insert it in the first Maddie. I don't mind Maddie with two right legs as long as I can complete her, haha. (If you are wondering what happened to the second Maddie, I transplanted her head to a Cleo de Nile body.)

I will use paper clay to fill in the gaps of my incisions on Maddie's thigh, so paper clay is just so useful for me. It can get messy at times especially when I use lots of water to soften the clay though.

I wish I have a small drill, a pin vise perhaps, so that my transplant could be done much easier or faster, but I only have a craft knife at the moment. Last time I just burnt off the stuck plastic peg from the broken leg of my other dolls, but it took a very long while to get it done. Oh well. I'll just keep on slicing and slicing until I get that damn peg out. I don't think I can finish it today because I have to wake up early tomorrow!

I got both dolls from a thrift store. In fact I think I was very lucky to find two Madeline Hatters because Ever After High dolls are not even sold in toy stores here in Manila.