Wedding Dress

So here are the pictures of the wedding dress I made for my friend. It took a while but i got there in the end. As you can see my friend is not the traditional bride and choose to have a gold skirt with a maroon bodice (which had sequined flowers on the side). I felt very honoured to make her dress and the final product was well worth waiting for. Considering this was my first wedding dress i am really pleased with the outcome. I've been dressmaking for 20 years now and so far have really concentrated on making for myself and my family so this was a challenge. I really enjoyed making this dress and hopefully it has now given me the confidence to expand my horizons. Let me know what you think, please leave a comment. Oh yes to top it off  realised on the Friday that myself and my 9year old didn't have anything to wear so i made a couple of dresses, and my 16 year old made her own too.

My friends Wedding dress

OK so its been a busy few weeks and i have completely neglected my blog. I have been busy making my best friends wedding dress and although this has been a challenge it has been a pleasure and honour to do so. When we first discussed the ideas it seemed quite an easy task. Having had 20 years sewing experience and have made bridesmaids, carnival and prom dresses in the past i thought it shouldn't be too hard. But after deciding on a design the next task was to get a pattern, material and accessories. So off we went on a dress hunt. In the end we decided on a corset top with a full ruffled skirt. My friend decided she didn't want to be traditional bride so we set about finding the right colour material. After many change of minds we set  on a maroon embroidered corset with a gold taffeta skirt. So the project began. Keep watching for photos and more

The start of the holidays

So here we are at the beginning of the summer holidays. 6 weeks of trying to entertain 5 children and working on my products. As you can imagine our household is a bit manic, but that's the life i chose and i wouldn't change a thing. I might change the arguments when one of my darling daughters fights with her sister because she said she could borrow that top last week but not this week. Each one of my daughters have completely different personalities so trying to amuse them all at the same time and a baby boy (6 months old) is very interesting. Saturday we decided to go to the cinema which again was an interesting scenario because they all had different ideas of what to go and watch. Eventually we decided on the new shrek (which i admit was a good choice. But that was a one off treat. We spent a fortune on just watching the film (that doesn't include eats). Sunday was a lazy day, we just hung around the house, garden and my older ones, computer. Today is a new week and i am considering setting up the tent in the garden so they can play holidays.
Back to work for now but will speak soon.

Prom

Ok so its been a while and for that i'm sorry. I have had a manic few weeks, first i had quite a few orders to sort out then my eldest daughters Prom to finish. So as you can imagin last week was very hectic. My eldest finally finished school so we completed her prom dress to wear last wednesday then fortunatly because she was in the school band she was able to wear her dress again on the thursday night. It was a very emotional week and my baby is no longer a baby anymore. So here is a picture of her in the prom dress. Its my daughters design (off to college to take fashion) and I made it.Lots of sweat and tears went into making the dress.
Today i had sports day and with the lovely british summer it rained. Today was the juniors turn, monday was the infants. My youngest came 2nd in the egg and spoon race and my older daughter came 2nd in the running race. My other daughter is having her sports day ar high school but us oldies are not allowed to watch. I love sports day but its amazing to see how many mums and dads are soooooo competitive. I am now nursing a headache from all the shouting. Its quite funny to watch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway enough for now so take care and lots of love

A Busy Week

Wow what a busy week last week was. I did research, orders, normal household duties and made a prom dress. .My oldest daughter has her prom tomorrow night so me being me decided to save money and make it. I must admit now it is finished it looks fab and after tomorrow night I will post pictures. I also spent some of the week trying to develop our range so watch this space. I decided it was about time I entered the modern world so invested in a blackberry.This is my first blog on my phone so here's hoping it works ok. Any way short but sweet I will blog again very soon. Lots of Love

That monday feeling!!!!

What a fantastic monday it is. Usually the monday blues sets in but for us this week it is a completely different story. I started the day with a lovely brisk stroll through the village where i live. The sun was shinning, birds were singing and the weather was warm. With my meditation music on i pondered the week ahead. Once i got back home i set to work on my website (its a big job). I came across a notice for a chance to win a free listing on a new sister website to thisladyloves.com. I applied and won!!!!! So watch out for our advertisment on thiskidloves.com. Next which was the best news for me, the rest of my certification for my skincare products finally came through. This now means i can officially start selling the rest of my products. Everything is finally coming together. Its a fab feeling. Tomorrow i will start taking more pictures so i can publish them. Watch this space...............

School Hols

We are now half way into half term and the children are bored already. We have done crafts, crafts, played with toys been for walks and watched movies but they are still bored. Is there only so much you can do?????
So today i have decided the children can entertain themselves (garden it is then) so i can upload pictures, make more items and chase up certain things i have left this week.
Yesterday was fun, the girls decided to play with clay and make some lovely items. Unfortunatly they will take a very long time to dry, but maybe i have budding art clay designers. The weather looks like it will rain but a little rainwater never hurt anyone so wellies donned and in the garden it is.
Pictures of crafts will follow.
Have a good week
S
xxx