The last one was the beaded mask — this year is The Ugly Bug Ball.  Bead something based on the Burl Ives song of the same name, recorded for the 1964 Disney film “Summer Magic.” Bead a bug!  Here’s Fred, for inspiration.

More accurately, a head waiting for a body! Neck to the tip of the ears is 28mm. The head is rounder on top than I’d like, but I think this small scale is making it harder to get what I envision.

I’ve stalled long enough, it’s time to try to work on this figure again.  As I had decided earlier, educated by false starts, I decided to begin completing this head by connecting the white rim (clothing) around the face from side to side, at the widest part of the head.  From there, decrease down to…

Does this help, LB? Peyote and tension. No fluid drape of beads, that’s for certain!  The face without the white frame of beads is 18mm tall.

I spent a day, many hours, trying to put the face in a head. The beads were disagreeing with me — the white beaded bits are just a few of the false starts. The white domed circle was the top of the head, and it looks like a top of a head, but the white…