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Every Monday at Make Mine Pink we do a show and tell Monday to show you something that we have been working on ~

Ever since I saw the article in the April issue of Romantic Homes magazine by Heather Bullard, I have wanted to try doing a dress form ~
I started by ordering the dress form off of ebay and then painted it with Kilz primer and then with Valspar Churchill Hotel Wheat paint ~ after it was dry I ragged on Valspar Faux Antiquing Glaze ~

I have wanted a dress form for my office to hang vintage prom dresses and skirts ~ they are so much fun to use to display all kind of things ~
I have also been looking for a skirt like the one I have shown forever and finally found one at Canton last month so it was fun to put it on the finished dress form along with some of the soldered charm necklaces ~

I was so excited when I received the Winter issue of Artful Blogging and saw a picture of my dress form ~ It is in an article about Tiffany's "Show Me Your Form" blog party ~ I had to include my dress form in the party because my family truly does not get the whole dress form thing ~ in fact my girls who are 19 and 21 think she is pretty scary ~

It was alot of fun and really fun to be in one of my very favorite magazines ~ in fact all of the Somerset Studio magazines are pretty much to die for gorgeous ! I would love to carry some of them on my website so I will have to see if I can do that ~

I just finished listing this dress form on my website with my new found wide pink ribbon obsession ~

I tweek all of my photos with Picnik ~ if you haven't given it a try, it is so much fun !! They have added alot of different things too since I joined a few months ago ~
The dress form photos have been edited with a sepia tone which I love but it really doesn't look so great on my website so I am putting them here :o)

You can also do collages super easy ! They are really fun too ~

Have fun picniking !!

Tiffany at Shabby Scraps is having a "Show me your Form" party today !!
I am so glad because I love my dress form (not named yet) and my family just does not get it at all ~

Tiffany has the funniest story on how this all came about ~ you can read her blog post here ~

One of my favorite things is vintage swirly skirts like she has on ~ I also use her to display jewelry and other treasures for my website ~

This is a picture of her before I painted her and then after she was given a more antique look ~ now I need to do some painting and distressing of the wood parts to get them more vintage looking ~

I have been on the hunt for awhile at flea markets, antique shows and pretty much everywhere to find an old dress form and old party dresses in pink ~ it is alot easier said than done ~ but.... in my travels I found the prettiest odds and ends of old pieces ~ today I decided to make this lampshade out of various things I have found ~ I took an old pink dress, cut it down and added a vintage crocheted collar to the top edge ~ to finish it off I put a vintage rhinestone hair clip at the front ~ I always am picking up old rhinestone jewelry pieces because you can do so much with them and I love a little bling !!! ~ I really like how it came out and am kind of want to keep it for my new shabby office but for awhile it can be yours at www.katiesrosecottage.com ~