Barbie's never looked better

In my continuing quest to prepare for my upcoming Doctor Who program, this weekend I decided to make a weeping angel using this awesome tutorial from Craftster.

Start with a Barbie.

The tutorial uses one of those Barbies with the jointed elbows but this is what I had on hand. So, I hacked at her arms with a razor knife for a good hour. And her elbows are pretty much just hot glue now but she seems to be holding together pretty well.

I followed the tutorial pretty much to the letter. I just used some scrap fabric I had around instead of gauze. Also, I found that coating the dress in white glue before I painted it added a nice level of stiffness.

So, here's my finished angel.