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Pirate ahoy!

Phew! After much fiddling about but lots of fun too here's a pirate to scare those little mermaids out of their scales! I'm very pleased with the dreadlocks which took a few gos to get right, and the flared coat

Three gauguin mermaids

These are the best I've done so far. I'm still struggling with the mouths though. I'm wondering if I'd do better embroidering the faces before I stuff the head. Now I'm working on a scarey pirate with stripey legs. Sort of based on Jack Sparrow so I'm looking forward to doing the hair.