Firstly (because I'm so eager to show it off!):
Wedding cake! My old high-school bestie got married at the weekend and asked if I would do the cake as a wedding gift. I'll confess that I got really stressed out about it as it all became rather last minute but I got there in the end so super happy!
My other big time consuming task was gala day dresses for my niece and her fellow Bauer girl. They started off like this:
I'm not sure who I blame most - my 12 year old niece and classmate for deciding that they were too old for kids clothes, or their parents who let them buy the dresses. Either way, as you can see my pre-pubescent niece suddenly (to her absolute horror) had a dress giving her gigantic boobs (and they really were gigantic on her). As usual, the buy was last minute so they had no other option other than to ask me if I could do something to fix it and make the girls presentable to the public.
So this happened:
Missy found that the boob made a good skull cap. The dresses were basically demolished. The only seams not ripped open were those holding the loops for the ribbon back. My hubby did ask if I would have been quicker making the dresses from scratch, to which the sad answer was yes, it would have been quicker.
Anyway, the 12+ hours effort paid off:
I was at the above mentioned wedding, so missed the gala day, but I was reliably informed that the dresses held up well and that both girls were very happy with them!
Until next time.
That's more than a 'bit' of readjusting...
ReplyDeleteAnd if the padded bra fits like that on Missy's head, then yeah, gigantic indeed!
Pleased it all went well though, and I will admit now, I have been showing everyone your cake and going 'my sister made this, isn't she awesome?!' though I don't know if it's a compliment or not when they don't initially believe me and say it's clearly a professionally made cake...
I'll take that as a huge compliment!
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