My eldest just after she put a serial pedophile away for life. She deserves to be happy and so do we. That afternoon she drove 150 miles to buy a new car. She hasn't had a new car for 16 years, so she was due. Look at the files on that guy... amazing and sickening at the same time.
I have been quite depressed but also busy. I am going with my middle daughter and her family for a few days to the Oregon coast so I wanted to really get all July dresses and the first week of August dresses out. I still have three more to go and two of them are very hard.
I hemmed 5 bridesmaid dresses yesterday and ripped one of the hard wedding dresses.
Had bridezilla yesterday and still have no idea what she had in mind. She came in two weeks ago with a short notice dress. All it needed ws the shoulder straps lifted and a hem in front and bustling hooks.
She came to pick it up and took so long trying it on. She asked what the button at the bottom of her zipper was for and I said it is your bustling button. Then I started to show her the looping I had put in for the bustle. She asked why that was needed and I said so you are not dragging this long train all over during your reception. She retorted that she was not having a reception, just her husband and her, so she did not need it. I am thinking then why did you stand there for 15 minutes while I measured and put the bustling pins in? No problem I will take the button off and then I will remove the loops. I took $25.00 off her charge as I did not realize she did not want a bustle.
Then she noticed that the dress was missing some beading along the front cleavage. She was very large busted and those beads are put on with a single thread. The pulling of the tulle straps causes the beads to snap. Now when she brought the dress in I had pulled up the shoulder straps about an inch on each side to bring her bust up a notch as it was sagging over the under bust trim. I also noticed that she had broken the beading strings on both sides of the straps, probably due to the largeness of her bust. I took the straps up and did a french seam to strengthen to straps and replace the missing beads with the little bead sack they send with dresses. Tulle dress straps stretch very easily and can also fray if the bust is heavy. Now she wanted the bag of beads and I had used them all to fix her straps so I dug in my bride box and found others to replace and sent her home with extra's. She left disgruntled and I could not figure out why.
About 5 minutes later she returns and another customer had also pulled up. She told me to take care of him as she had some things she wanted to discuss with me about her dress and she did not want to do it in front of someone else. I went into shop and got the man's things all the time praying, please Heavenly Father help me with this. Then she pulled her dress out of her trunk and came back in and told me she did not like the french seam on the shoulder straps. I explained that they were french seamed before just not enough to prevent stretching and breaking because of the larger bust. I had always done tulle straps this way and many of my dresses already came like that. She then turned the dress over and said then why did you replace my zipper? I looked at her and said I didn't. Who in there right mind would ever replace a zipper on a wedding dress? Linda help me here.... I mean really?
She grunted her disapproval and left in a huff after saying that if she had know the straps were going to look like this she would never have had me do them. I did not argue but they would have continue to stretch and breaking and losing beads without stabilization. Then she left again and sent two hateful texts.I tried to calm her but she wanted the last word, so I let her have it. Honestly two tiny one inch seams at the shoulders of a dress cannot even be seen and you would have to have an aerial camera to see them and they had beads all over. I still don't get it. The more I think about it I think she was trying to get her money back. I mean to accuse me of replacing her zipper. There is one crazy bride every year so I guess I was due.
Aunty Jessie sent 4th of July clothes. Don't they look cute?
I spent the 4th cleaning house and then going to little sis's for a BBQ and swimming. Then everyone back here at dark to watch the city fireworks from our deck. Then the three grand kids stayed the night with me and my youngest daughter. My youngest daughter is very sweet and sensitive to others needs, I just love that kid.
All of us the evening of the 4th blowing bubbles, and playing with poppers. So fun.
Sissy will be here next week and she will try and whip my butt back into shape. I should be afraid.
Kim
