Rising Spirit 

	I started with a piece of  3/4 inch PVC. Stuck a  piece of rebar in the ground and then proceeded to bend the PVC with a heat gun to my liking. I also glued a PVC cross to the top.
Ok, now the fun begins! Grab some black plastic tubing, the kind you use for sprinkler systems. I ran 5 pieces of dowel rod through the PVC in the area ribs would be, then cut sections of the tubing and glued them to the dowel rods. Next  I had an old garden hose, I took that and wrapped it loosely around PVC from bottom up to ribs. I then grabbed some twine and did the same thing with that about 4 times. Be sure to secure hose and twine to PVC Loose, there is no wrong way to do this. Now get yourself a can of Great Stuff foam, spray it all up and down the PVC. Grab yourself a skull and attach it to the top (cross). Let everything set.
	I wanted my rising spirit to be white/off white. I hit the black plastic with white paint, I also sprayed some foam in and around there as well. As you can see the weight is bending the PVC, more on that in a minute.
On to more covering. I grabbed a pair of pantyhose and pulled it up from the base and secured it just below the ribs. I was going to do the same from the head down but I made the ribs to big, so I grabbed some landscape fabric to cover the ribs and used pantyhose to cover skull. Getting lower.
	Well it had gone lower then I wanted, so I grabbed a scrap piece of 1/2 inch PVC and ran it through the cross and secured it with screws. I grabbed my heat gun again and bent it into arms.
I wrapped twine around the arms, securing it to the pipe with hotglue. I put some foam around the shoulders (not much). I then took another pair of stockings and covered the arms.
	The hands, I took a pair of rubber gloves and sprayed foam inside, then each finger I ran a doubled wire inside. You have to keep an eye on this, they will inflate like balloons if you don't constantly push down on them, keeping the hand shape. Next time I will be using white gloves! LOL I then ran the extra wire inside the PVC and glued them in place.
I next covered the entire thing with laytex. Before doing that I sliced holes in the pantyhose. As you can see the laytex didn't turn the landscape fabric all white, so I spray painted it white.
	This was right after laytex and paint.
Here he is all finished. I slashed up the chest and a few other places. After seeing it I didn't care for plain white, so I took some blue/gray paint and dry brushed it on him. I also took some glow paint in his eyes.
	Here he is making his 1st appearance in Spyderwood.
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