Sunday, July 14, 2019

Sunday, No good deed ,#2

     Goes unpunished.  Well a little update on my Saturday.  I had such plans.  Plans within plans (Dune).  I jumped out of bed with this idea that I would get so much done and I would be well on my way this next week.  Ha!  Kim plans and God laughs.  The motto of my life.

     Hubs and I did get right busy cleaning the house but we were not finished when our friends arrived and the vacuum and mop sit exactly where we left them upon their arrival.  We did get to discuss and list the menu.  We made plans on how we were going to do the brisket (ahead of time and reheat).  They will smoke the briskets and cook so I don't have to do that.  We are going to meet the Wednesday before the wedding to cook all the custard for the homemade ice creams.  We will make them the night before at the  rehearsal dinner and hard pack them.  We will only have one freezer for soft the day of the wedding.  Salads will be assigned out and our friends are in charge of seeing that all things are out and dishes are refilled as needed.  So all though the shopping and the work are not done we have a plan. (Do you hear laughter?)

     I also was able to get the Jr. bridesmaid into her dress to mark it for alterations.  I am so happy I ordered a larger size as she is so tall if I had gotten a dress to fit her it would have been too short.

     The client who was to pick up the $5000.00 monster dress called as they had just flown in from Miami and were very jet lagged.  They asked for a 6:30 evening appointment and I was fine with that as I wanted to hit the second hand stores for the last of the silver centerpieces. I also needed to get mouse traps and try and find shoes for the Jr. Bridesmaid.  I drove over to Lil sis's and made her come with me.  I was so happy to find the last Two pictures I needed and also shoes.

     I had the whole evening to binge on netflix and do all the ironing.  I thought...  Enter client who tried on $5000.00 dress. Which ended up being too long.  The mother had called me after the initial try on and asked me to lengthen it 1 inch as they were getting taller shoes.  Well even with the taller shoes it is still too long.  I should have gone with my original measurements. So I have to unpick the whole thing and redo it.  It will take hours.  Of course she will pay for my time, I just don't want to do this. 

    I did manage to get it all undone last night and I plan on having it done by late this evening.  But I will have to spend several hours hand sewing this back together.  Not something I want to do on the Sabbath.  They need the dress as they are leaving for Japan on Tuesday morning early. Crap and double crap!

     I am still going to take a nap, I think I can face the monster dress after a nap.

Have a restful and peaceful Sabbath.


Kim
  

14 comments:

  1. Re-hemming the dress now takes it to a 4th circle of Hell task. Wowza!

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    1. I am finally done again with the little sucker. They are coming for a try on in a few minutes. I have a blaster headache.

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  2. Yikes.... no fun!! You are being paid $5000 for alterations, right? ;-))

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  3. At least you're getting paid for the re-do! I can understand the disappointment of doing this task again, after thinking it was all done.

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    1. Yes these people pay out the nose but I guess they have the money.

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  4. Orders from customers that went contrary to my good, professional, years' long practices never turned out right. I finally said, "I will not do it your way." No one ever took their garment elsewhere, and my decision was never wrong! I am so sorry you are having to pick out the hem. Do you have someone who can do that without ruining the fabric? My stomach would be churning.

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    1. Well I was not happy and I am like you I often refuse to do things the way they want if I know it won't work.

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  5. Oh goodness just thinking about having to re-do that dress and all the wedding stuff makes me tired I can't imagine all the pressure you're under.. I hope you're able to get the dress done and still have "some" time to relax a little.. XO

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    1. I am reeling and my head hurts so bad right now.

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  6. This is why I hate sewing for others. They never listen to you when you KNOW it won't turn out as they imagine.

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    1. I am pretty good at not making these kind of mistakes, but when they call with an instruction on length I do follow it.

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  7. reminds me of when Daughter 4 changed her wedding theme from mid century to modern formal 3 wks before the wedding to please soon to be mother in law.Then the mother in law decided she would have her family help with the reception serving.... total bust as they all left after the wedding and didn't come to the reception even as a guest. I did get everything switched to please her and pulled some of OUR family in to help serve, but told Hubby I doubted if the marriage would make it as long as she was running that show. It didn't, his 2nd and 3rd didn't either due to her. I think it ranked as the 2nd circle of hell.

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  8. I am sorry for your daughter having to go through that experience.

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