Step two, I first made my mermaid out of fimo clay..I must say she turned out really cute but I took her out of the oven too soon, thinking I needed to let her slump around the buoy,....wrong...what was I thinking, its just foam after all..she fell apart and melted my buoys in places...so typical of my "doing". So I turned to homemade air dry clay...it flattend out a little more than I wanted so I re-did the clay and made her face over..the body will be covered with beads so I am not concerned about the flatness there...at least for now....anyway, I hope it all works out. I'll keep at it.