Okay so last night the mannequin finally arrived! Yay! The first action I took was to unscrew the hinge of one of the arms to see if it was actually possible - it was, however, slight problem...As I did so, the spring from within pinged tight and the upper arm came off....It's actually ridiculously hard to put back on as the spring has to be pulled tight, but it's not very easy so I'm thinking that I can maybe go for a Tim Burton 'Corpse Bride' kind of look, whereby I keep her without the upper arm. Only problem with this is that that arm now can't be moved particularly easily, in fact, it can't really be moved much at all - it's very floppy. Oh dear.
So, I decided to start practising designs for the wedding dress and I initially used newspaper to create a bodice, and then cutting up layers to create the skirt. I quite like the look of this because it looks rustic and interesting because of the layers and also the text gives it a modern yet old style. I am also going to try using plain white paper - I didn't use this originally because obviously it's thicker and I wanted to trial with something thinner, i.e. newspaper. I am also going to either try layering white tissue paper on top of white paper, newspaper or simply by itself.
Will update when I've trialled some more.
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