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The Christmas Dress Legacy

05 Wednesday Dec 2012

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Side bar on the home selling front:  HOLY F BALLS.  Our appraisal came back short – way short.  Turns out our appraiser was from two hours away and totally blew it with the comps, comparing us to houses in a totally different area.  The buyers are fighting it and may switch banks if the appraiser can’t get his head out of his ass.  For now, we are just sitting at the kids’ table just waiting for the grownups to sort all this out.

In more delightful news….

Sewing Machine Fest 2012 is just wrapping up.  Alice is wearing my Christmas dress from when I was a wee babe.  Sure, that was 1982, but unless you haven’t heard, the eighties are back, baby!

When I made Finn’s baptism outfit three years ago, I was just starting to figure out how to sew and (true to form) had made two shirts since the first one was WAY too big.  I had an extra white linen shirt just collecting dust in the basement.  When I could not find a plain white blouse anywhere for Alice to wear underneath the dress, my mind went to the little extra shirt in the basement.  Only problem is the shirt is totally for a little boy.  I did a tiny bit of reconstruction…

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I rounded the corners of the collar and pleated the sleeves – not in the way anyone worth their salt would EVER do, but it is still just a tiny bit girlier.  She only has to wear it once, anyway.  And it is UNDER a dress.  She’s so darn cute that nobody will be looking at her dorkily pleated sleeves, anyway.

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Yes, I know it isn’t ironed.  Ironing is not my strong suit; I’m not going to win the Iron Chef Award anytime soon.  Really, I have accepted that.  But…  I am expecting a nomination for Best Use of Non-Ironing in a Mom Blog come award season. I’ll keep you posted of any developments.

Just in case you wanted to peer into the rest of my life, this is what Monday brought me.  Anyone who has ever had (or ever been) a kid knows that once the spaghetti pot makes its way into the bedroom, the carpet/sheets/pillows and/or jammies are already in the washing machine.  If I EVEN get the flu (or worse, if Alice gets it) when the movers are here, I’m gonna be seriously P.O.-ed.

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Drum roll, please… The dress; revealed.

20 Monday Aug 2012

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Holy schmoley, I never would have thought that so many people would be sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to see how this dress came out.  And by “so many people,” I mean THREE, one of which is my mother-in-law (shout out to YOU, Mima!!).  And I doubt they were actually sitting on the edge of their seats.  (I think this is what they call “artistic license.”)

Before I get down to business, let me just say that this has been a cah-rah-azy week.  My mom and grandmother came in to visit, so instead of writing blog posts, I (slash Nathan) was…

All that AND making this damned dress.  So, yes.  I have been busy, and now I have tons of fodder for new blog posts. But keep your shorts on; I have to tell you all about my dream where Captain America, Thor and I tear up our local shopping mall….

What do you mean you don’t give a shit about my dream??

Alright, enough already.  You probably already skipped ahead to the pictures anyway.  And you have already seen this dress.  Since this is the third time I’ve made it.  Here’s the “before:”

And DONE.

I know, it is plain… But she’s a baby, for pete’s sake.  Not a birthday cake.

I’m not sure which will end up being a bigger pain in the ass, sewing on these little buttons or getting them all buttoned once it is on her.

You may wonder what we will do if it is cold…  Worry not.  We got her a little sweater at Target.

I also made a headband for her out of some of the lace.  I’m sorry, but baby bonnets just aren’t my thing.  And her hair is going to get all wet, and I’m not about to condemn her to a crappy hair day for her party.  By the way…  Have you ever tried to photograph the top of a baby’s head?  Nearly impossible.  Which is why they are a little blurry.

Oh my god, she is so cute it kills me.

So there you have it.  I’m sure it was a the biggest letdown for you since the first Twilight movie came out.  (I think I have now referenced Twilight twice in this post, and I think I may have to get a life.)  Stay tuned to see how crappy the last Twilight  movie is it looks on her on her big day!