My French Dress Form
Madame arrived a few days ago, rather unceremoniously, in a cardboard box by way of New Jersey. Like so many bloggers before me I set out to outmoded her French form, using the instructions from Heather Bullard published in the April 2008 matter of Romantic Homes.
Here she is in her natural stage in the back yard. I thought it would be easiest to warpaint the form upright, so I left it on the wood subservient, but because I'm a sloppy painter, I put the base privy of a garbage bag and secured it to the metal irreconcilable with masking tape.
The form was first sprayed with Kilz pure primer and then painted with Valspar land-locked flat finish paint in the color Churchill New Zealand pub Wheat using a foam paintbrush. Then Valspar's antiquing...
