Dress forms, covered
I bought two paper maiche dress forms at an estate sale store last year with the idea of altering them; lo and behold I was finally inspired to follow through with that project on a snow day last week! As you can see, they are both tabletop sized; I wish I'd taken photos of the "before" but I was in too much of a hurry. The one on the left began life with forest green wooden base and top, while the body was decoupaged in loud, Victorian-style colors. I covered it with scraps of burlap that I then stamped with some fun motifs; here is the front (above), and this is the back of the form. I left it plain because it's a gift for my friend Rebecca, who is currently loving burlap-anything. If she wants to, she can add trim or bling it up. I was thinking she'd use it as a jewelry holder, so I didn't want to stick too much stuff on it. This one started off all brown -- brown wood and brown paint over the paper maiche body. So, I decoupaged it with l...