Lemoncholy's flight of fancy

this is a manikin that i started altering back in Oct. that i just finished last week! it sort of got put in a corner until i had time to get back to it. my husband picked it up at a barn sale for $10. it had this hideous orange fabric that still grosses me out when i am looking at the picture. something about the texture of that fabric - ick. so it was covered in that awful fabric and it had these open areas and all these screws on the inside. i think the open areas were meant to be able to manipulate the size and shape of the manikin. (i'm guessing here). but somewhere along the way, it became difficult to make the pieces all flush. so thus i decided if i was going to be able to do anything with it, i would have to cover the open spaces. so that's where i decided to do paper mache (or whatever that stuff in the box is - the strips that you dip in water). so i got the whole thing covered in paper mache and then that is where i stopped working on it. then recently as i've been making more jewelry, i thought it'd be perfect to model my pieces in photos. so i decided to finish it. i collaged old pattern pieces over the paper mache. then i dry brush some gesso over the pattern paper to tone it down a bit.