Today we headed out to do the fittings on the flower girls, and found that the dresses fit almost perfectly on one flower girl, but were a little bit big on the other two. I’m very glad I didn’t end up putting the zippers in beforehand, because they fit so much better at the end of the day today than they did when we started! I am happy to say, however, that we didn’t have to hem ANY of them! […]

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Well, the saga of the bow ties has been going on all summer long, which was not my intention. However, as easy as the bow ties were to put together, I wasn’t particularly into the project because of all the little finishing details that needed to happen when they were done. Plus, I needed NINE of them. And they were all the same, and boring. Second, with other projects and travelling, the project just fell by the wayside, so here […]

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A couple of weeks ago, it was arranged that I would accompany my aunt Pam to Maine to pick up my cousin Katherine from her musical festival. I looked forward to this for a while, being given the opportunity to see a new place, and I never – and I mean NEVER – turn down the chance to have Maine lobster. It’s just not done. And so the Bed and Breakfast was booked and the date was set. Wednesday morning […]

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We’ve been crafting away, getting ready for a wedding that is – count it! – thirty days away! We spent many hours yesterday tying and tagging these bags of sugar, and there’s more to do today, along with celebrating my mom’s birthday! There’s high excitement and high stress, and a lot going on in a month that is also busy in other ways. The next thirty days should be very interesting…

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