‘The Dress’
B & I both agreed that everything is going to be small and simple for our wedding & reception. I am excited because I can do all the fun stuff with much less stress & WAY less money (had a wedding with 160+ people for my first marriage). I think I am still on kind of a high because of the excitement of it really happening, but I have found ‘the dress’ though I was irked that I had to pay $15 plus shipping for the 12-18 size (which is the vintage sizing) when the 4-10 ones were only $8-$9! Anyways it’s okay because I love it & that’s all that matters and considering how expensive formal wear is, it’s worth the investment! I am thinking of a light cream or white matte type dress fabric. Lucky me, I just got the JoAnn’s sale flyer & their ‘house’ brand of special occasions fabric is on sale for $4.99 a yard right now!
I am barely 5′3″ so I am also torn on the length of the dress, but I think I will make it floor length for the ceremony & sew in snaps on the wrong side of the hem & inside of the waist, that way afterward I can take my petti off & snap it up like a bubble skirt? I love the tea length especially for a less formal wedding, but I am afraid of that length on my being so short.
I have an amazing friend that as soon as she heard she offered to make me a flower for the dress with a matching head piece & possibly jewelry… I am SUPER excited because she makes the MOST amazing stuff!
Anyways I plan on making a muslin or 2 of the bodice to make sure I can get the fit right… that’s always a challenge when sewing for myself!
Anyways the pattern is Vogue V2962, which is a reprint of an original Vogue pattern from 1957.
I found a photo of one in black on flickr… she did a review on www.patternreviews.com & said she made a 12 but had to take the waist in, but I think the bust is a little big for her still (funny thing she looks just like my friend who is making the stuff for me!) I figure being busty I can gather it a hair more so they over lap a little less & it is cut a little deeper to show just a little ‘classy cleavage’.
Here’s another picture of the dress from the Vogue website in a more casual fabric & tea length .
When looking for ‘the dress’ pattern I realized I really LOVE the clothes from the 50’s, I may have found a new love! Don’t be suprised if you see me sewing up more 50’s dresses… now I just need a reason to wear all of them.
2 comments June 27, 2009
My sick little Baylie!
Well after my exciting post the other day I spent the rest of the afternoon sitting with Baylie watching Mickey as she had a low grade fever that was rising, even with Motrin. Well at 9:30 that night, 2-4hrs before it was time for another dose or some Tylenol her temp jumped to fast & caused her to have a febrile seizure. Luckily it lasted less then 30 secs & only took a minute to get her to focus again. Even though I KNEW what was happening & stayed relatively calm it was still one of the scariest things I have seen, that’s my BABY!
Once she came too I got a hold of the on call ped who said I should take her to the ER just to make sure its not a bacterial infection that is causing the fever. So at 10:30 at night Zander & Carlie got to go to dads so I could bring Baylie to the ER. The nurses & docs were nice, they checked her over did an x-ray & determined that it was something viral, because they couldn’t find any other signs or symptoms & if I notice any changes take her to the ped.
Well Thursday afternoon she went to see her dad for 30 minutes & came back with a small blister like spot on her leg… so off to the ped we went! The blister was just a large bug bite from dads yard, but the ped Dr. Bob (my dr as a kid 
) noticed that the glands behind her ears had started to swell which is a sign of roseola AND he had seen a few cases recently. Funny thing is on the way home from the ER that night at 1am that’s what I was thinking about… a virus with a fever & nothing else! Anyways it’s good to know what we are up against & it’s a matter of just managing the fever for 1-3 days (we are 1/2 way though day 3!) and then she will have a rash most likely for a week or so. And Carlie is the only one we have to worry about getting it since it’s something that is most common between 6-24 months & rare after 4, plus I think Zander already had it.
Anyways shes still not feeling great, but I let her Motrin run out by 1 hour this morning to see how her body is doing since she didn’t feel super hot… & its back down to 100.6 with out any medicine which is great since when she had the seizure it was up to 103 WITH medicine & had been 102.8 yesterday with the medicine still. Anyways I gave her some Tylenol this morning & her temp is 98.6 with that, so I am thinking that her fever is working on going away thank goodness!
Anyways I think Mickey is just about over, so she is gonna want me by her side… I just hope she starts feeling better soon!
1 comment June 26, 2009
What a couple of weeks & lots of amazing news!
Wow what a crazy couple of weeks I have had! It’s been quite the roller coaster to say the least. I told you there was a lot of exciting stuff going on & I finally have time to sit & blog about it!
To start out I have been working on organizing a neighborhood garage sale & getting everything ready for it. If that wasn’t enough, at the a few Monday’s ago I came home to a great email with the subject line: Media Request: Article for AOL. It took me a few days to realize that it really was exactly what it said! Judi Ketteler a freelance writer who does some work from AOL & other popular magazines like Better Homes & Gardens. She also has an exciting book ‘Sew Retro: 25 Vintage- Inspired Projects for the Modern Girl’ that should be coming out next spring! She is working on a piece for AOL’s home & garden DIY section about moms who sew & craft for a variety of reasons. Anyways she had stumbled across my blog & when she found out about the article she contacted me because she wanted me to be one of the featured ladies for the article!
Remember the roller coaster comment? Well after I got her all the info for the interview I needed to get pictures of the kids in something I had made… SO I decided to make some dresses that I have been planning on for a while. BUT as my luck ALWAYS is when I have a deadline NOTHING goes right. I LOVE little girls in white muslin sun dresses!!! And since the girls don’t have any that fit I decided to make them matching ones from one of my favorite patterns from You Can Make This, the Strappy Sundress. WELL after getting everything washed, ironed (have I mentioned I HATE ironing), cut & pinned. Take everything over to my expensive Bernina sewing machine, put the first top under the pressure foot, lowered it down & stepped on it… just for it to go backwards! My backstitch button feels loose, so its probably something stupid but I am afraid to take it apart myself, so it will need to be brought in to be fixed & serviced.
None the less the dresses have not been finished because my 1951 Singer 201 that sews like a dream is buried under stuff because I wasn’t planning on using it until after my new sewing room is finished. To top it off the only outfits I have finished since the twins had a growth spurt are their birthday flower fairy dresses and I can’t manage to get a good picture of the 2 of them. SO I sent Judy a variety of my favorite pictures of all 3 of the kids in mama made clothes & I will just have to wait & see what her editor picks!
So in the midst of all that frustration, excitement & disappointment I had to have a garage sale. Of course after at least 6 Saturdays of nice weather mother nature decides I need to try out this new garage we have and that just helped make everything even more hectic. Sadly it was probably one of my worst garage sales ever. I did still make $200 but that’s half what I normally make. On the plus said the local thrift store I volunteer at got lots of nice donations!
After all that I took a nice Sunday to do nothing but RELAX. It’s been a while & it was nice! Monday B & I went to town with out the kids which was also nice, but then yesterday we went back to town & picked up this
We have been talking about getting married now for a while, & a few months ago B asked me but he wanted to wait until we had a little more cash, and for my help picking it out, to get me a ring. So when we were walking around the mall on Monday we figured what the heck, and decided to go look & try things on. Well thanks to the most AWESOME lady ever, Becky at the Lynnwood Fred Myers Jeweler, we were able to find the perfect set with in our price range with out any pressure, and she was just so nice! Plus they were on sale at what worked out to be 43% off! We would have gotten them that day but they had to resize it because apparently I wear a 5.5! It is going to take a while to get used to regularly wearing a ring again, but then I won’t be able to imagine not wearing it! We don’t plan on having a big wedding… I have been there & done that and have no desire to deal with that stress again. I look forward to having a nice VERY small ceremony & a nice fun, relaxed, BBQ reception at home afterward. Hopefully it will double as a kind of house warming party as well because the addition should be done by then.
So be prepared for lots of fun posts the next few months as the date is set for Sept. 7th and I plan on doing just about everything my self!
Well that has been my roller coaster, life changing, last couple of weeks, but I look forward to whats to come.
6 comments June 24, 2009
A-Z Meme
I was just visiting a blog called Vively Online and she has this great meme that I thought would be fun to do as well! I don’t do these all the time, but this one was fun way to share sites that you frequently visit.
What is a meme you ask? You can read all about it here. But the basics is someone posts a list of questions with answers, then someone else copies & does the same but changing the answers to apply to them, and it continues on.
What you do is to type in the letter on your browser’s URL line, and see what website shows up!
Here is my potentially embarrassing list:
A – Amazon I do like free prime shipping
B – Bable Fish … I have a lot of foreign craft sites that I visit & those that blog about mine!
C – Craigslist Oh how I do love to buy & sell on CL! And it ROCKS during garage sale season. I wish everything so awesome was free!
D – Dictionary.com boring!
E – Everything Your Mama Made & More! Surprise, surprise!
F – Facebook I have been using this alot more lately but taking a break from Farmtown!
G - Gymboree I window shop a LOT when I am bored!
H – You Can Make This ~ Apparently I don’t use the letter H often, but I do LOVE their patterns!
I – iGoogle My homepage of course! Were I have blog reader set up so I check out all my favorites daily!
J – Jalie The have some of the best sewing patterns EVER.
K – Gmail my emails both start with a K.
L – Freecycle I LOVE this site!
M- Mint awesome FREE money and bugeting software that is similar to quicken. It has won a ton of rewards & is an awesome way to track your spending all in one place.
N – Newegg best place to find computer stuff!
O – Ottobre Design The best & most affordable kids patterns EVER!
P – Photobucket I do love pictures!
Q – Craigslist again… I said I really liked it!
R – Retail Me Not the best place to find shopping online discount & coupon codes.
S – Sewing Mamas A bunch of AWESOME mamas that share my love of sewing!
T – Twitter A great way to share little things when I don’t have to blog about it.
U - USPS gotta chack those tracking numbers
V – Vonage great extremely affordable unlimited long distance phone service!
W – Weather.com boring again, I know.
X – Mamas Chatterbox a very small mama forum that I belong to.
Y – You Can Make This again, I have a blog post coming up with some dresses from one of their patterns!
Z - Zales ?
Well I guess my list was a big mix of everything! Mostly boring practical stuff. I read all my favorite blogs through igoogle so I am not typing there address in all the time, otherwise I am sure there would have been a lot more!
Add comment June 17, 2009
YUMMY Natural Cleaners
I know I haven’t posted in a while, but some very excited stuff has been happening & I promise to blog about all of it soon! But as I was cleaning the dishes & counters I remembered I wanted to share the most amazing soap & cleaner with you. I found the dish soap at target a while back and was hooked after one sniff. It is the most yummy smelling lemon scented soap I have ever smelt! It doesn’t have the cleaner smell like most, it smells like real lemons and can make me quite hungry if I’m not careful. It is serious like heaven in the kitchen right now.
Anyways a few weeks ago I went back to target to get some more & found hand soap & spray cleaner all in the same scent. Not only do they smell great but they work well too! So what is it you as? J.R. Watkins Natural Home Care Liquid Dish Soap, Hand Soap , & All Purpose Cleaner! They are all non-toxic and biodegradable, not tested on animals and contain no animal ingredients. They aren’t super cheap, but they are about $2 less then ordering direct from the website & they have lasted me a good amount of time. People ask me ‘what are you making’ when they walk into my kitchen after I have cleaned . They do offer other scents, but the lemon is my love!
That being said I didn’t realize how many products they make in this scent until I visited their website to make links for this post… it’s like heaven! I will have to look and see if target carries any more! Their website is www.JRWatkins.com
1 comment June 12, 2009
