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Hi Jane,
Your soon to be daughter-in-law would indeed be very fun to paint. Hopefully you'll get a chance to visit them soon!
For background stands, I wanted to mention another build-it-yourself option. Not sturdy like the others, but it does the trick, and is portable and very cheap, and I'm sure the design could be substantially improved. I bought 1/2" PVC pipe at Home Depot with various t-connectors (in the sprinkler area). I cut the pieces into 2' and 1' sections (shown are only 2' sections, so the size shown is ~ 4' x 6'), and can mix and match to accomodate a tall standing model, or a wide sitting model, etc. Most pieces have one side of the t-connector primed (the purple stuff) and glued (also in the sprinkler area), for extra strength. Then I have some straight unglued lengths of pipe and extra t-connectors for whatever design I want to make. Grown-up legos, or something like that.
Clothespins work great to hold shorter pieces of material on. I did fly with this, and the box was opened but unharmed, as they could be construed as pipe bombs I suppose.
I hope I haven't jacked your thread, perhaps Mike will split this off.
Cheers,
Holly
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