Thursday, November 11, 2010

a wintery paris painting a day.......

french dress forms - who does not love them?   i wouldn't mind 7 or 8 of them lined up in my house.  i could decorate them like christmas trees.  OR:  i could drape art from them - jewelry or garlands of candy or lights.
  i could open one up in the front and make it into a secretary desk.   
i could use one as a hat tree or coat rack.  
i could make one into a clock.   
i could put a small refrigerator in one or make on into a lamp.  that would be fun.  make a french dress form out of a translucent  dried rabbit skin and put a light bulb inside it.
OR:  it would be fun to use on as a projection screen for home movies.

one could be made into the character karen from spongebob square pants.  or the maid in the jetson's.  i think her name was rosie the robotic maid.

the dress form would look good collaged or painted in bold colors.  or even colored in a vintage tea stain color and plastered in old love letters like french correspondence or old pictures.  OR: one could be used as a boa holder or a scarf holder. 
or,  it could be stripped to its wires and made into a birdcage.

a couple could be made out of cement with a wire running between them, placed in the garden to hold up creeping vines.  hopefully old zinfindel vines.  or a fountain spout.
one could be placed one the roof with directions attached to the top to use as a weather vane.

there are so many things one could do with a french dress form.  but mostly it would just be fun to have at least one left as is for a cool display or conversation piece.  no home should be without one.

2 comments:

Elizabeth Seaver said...

Fun painting and creative post!

Crowville said...

It makes me wish I'd never gotten rid of mine. By now it would have been truly vintage! Now I want several to do just what you were thinking. Very creative..

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