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When I bought my Delia secondhand, she came with a broken finger (we joke that this is a sign of a genuine Impldoll). Impldoll was willing to cast and ship a new hand to Delia's first owner, but the owner found it easier to sell her, and I just figured I would make a sculpey finger and glue it on. It's a hassle to get fingers to stay on hands, though, so I thought it might be easier to just make a new hand out of sculpey, especially as the set I got for Christmas had a block of Sculpey that was exactly the right color to match the body. Here is the original hand and the Sculpey one with it's current owner, an Impldoll Bella (Erzulie). Erzulie might have to timeshare with Sicktress' Deesse head, so I wanted to be sure everything worked OK on that body--or at least so there weren't any missing fingers. The hand itself is a bit lumpy--I found out that you can't sand or carve the hand after you cook it, because the sanding and carving show up as much lighter than...

It ended up like this--it's still a pretty odd wrap-style shirt, but at least I know where to alter it, and the shirt is at least wearable so Erzulie has something of her own. Here's how I put it together, more or less--I just eyeballed the pieces, which is why the fit is so odd--no measuring was involved. I ended up trying it under a pretty dress that Rajendora sewed me for a gift, and while it looks ok around the collar, the shirt is really too bulky to layer "as is". So Erzulie has a cute little dress to wear as well--I think I will make a little leather belt to match it later. Rajendora made a second dress as well, this is it on Gemma--it's really adorable! Thank you so much, Raj!