Strange Magic

We've got a strange magic working when we work on the wedding dress. With ELO playing in the background, we've kept our spirits up despite the lack of progress we'd hoped to make on Wednesday.

Jenny arrived Wednesday morning and we got to work right away. We sent the groom into hiding in the family room so to avoid any bad luck inducing sightings of the dress.

We got Stephanie into the dress to see what needed to be done to the back and discovered it was too big. What the heck!? In fact, it was exactly the-two-pieces-we'd-worked-so hard-to add-into-the-back too big. Remember how we spent so much time adding those pieces into the back when we tried it on Stephanie's mini-me and it was surprisingly too small? Remember all the stress and worry that the dress wouldn't fit because we'd left out crucial pieces?

With a laugh and a sigh, we set to work taking out the two added back pieces and resizing the back to fit. This highlighted the danger of basing our measurements on Stephanie's mini-me instead of the genuine article. This took much of the morning, and then we headed out to the flower meeting to discuss the wedding flowers--which we will also be making ourselves. We are nothing if not stubborn and tenacious! And maybe optimistic about our own abilities?

There was not as much progress on the dress as we would have liked on Wednesday. But we keep inching along toward our goal.