Another mad week

[jacey]

Best Beloved's 60th Birthday party on Saturday - catering by me involving cake baking (tick), cupcake making (tick), trifle making (half-tick), shopping for buffet ingredients, meats, cheeses, quiches etc. (tomorrow morning)

Trip to Wakefield on Wednesday to buy fabric for wedding outfits for Number One Daughter's wedding (for me and mum). (tick). Actual sewing - timescale 2 weeks. Sewing by me.

Hair permed (not a DIY job) (tick).

Wedding cakes (3) made and sent to be iced. One job done.(tick).

House tidying. (Err... sometime.)

Oh and - yes - the day job.

Comments

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Did you get your daughter's dress sorted out in the end?

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

The second one she bought - a floaty Jenny Packham dress, second-hand but in mint condition - is perfect, but we haven't really got satisfaction from the first one. The dress shop - Eva Lazio Bridal Couture - insisted on being allowed to alter the dress to 'fit' (which is what they'd contracted to do) and indeed they did manage to make is wide enough on the waist - though you can see 'tramlines' - albeit faint and the seam allowance holding the dress together must now be microscopic. However they added 2 inches all the way up the bodice - and the bust/cups were already a bit too big. The woman stuffed the cups with quilting wadding and told G it gave her a nice 'shape'. G said she felt like a bad Dolly Parton impersonator. She has a frontage that's little bigger than two fried eggs, but she's a tiny doll-like size and she's not looking to get married in a pair of falsies. She'd like to walk down the aisle looking like herself, please.

Anyhow, last we heard the woman at the shop thought she might have another customer for the dress - which would solve the problem, but G is currently £1,000 down on the deal.