I don't have much to report today, except that over the Easter weekend, I was reminded of an Easter about 14 years ago when Courtney was about 2 yrs old.
I made her a Polly Flanders (I think) dress, paid too much money for the pattern which had puffy sleeves, a full skirt and even a pinafore. I spent about $50.00 on just the material and lace for the pinafore. I spent about 2 weeks sewing this absolutely beautiful mauve and white print dress, then being so careful with the lace and the huge bow that went with it.
I called my daughter and said that Courtney should be in a slip and white tights as I had something for her.
I had to put the dress in one large box, the pinafore in another because they were so poofy, you get the picture....So, we arrive at the house with two huge boxes and the kid starts to tear it open and she picks up the dress, looks at me and says in her best english..."NO NANA" she didn't like it at all! She then opens up the lace...looks at her mom and says "NO MOMMY NO!"
I started laughing so hard, my sweetie was laughing, my daughter was horrified and her husband was just looking at the dress and pinafore thrown on the floor!
It took Kelly and I an hour to get her to put the dress on and only because that child loved us both that she put the damn thing on. She hated the dress!
We have only a snippet of a video of her wearing it, and she was drinking her juice while her poppa and daddy were drinking theirs (same colour as apple juice).
Kelly has no idea what ever happened to the dress, she passed it on to someone but can't remember who, and here I thought it would be such a keepsake...
To this day, that girl does not ever and has never since worn anything resembling poofs or full skirts and never mauve....I still laugh when I see her behind the bed, pleading with her mother and nana, saying the only words she could...noooooooooooooooooooo, Nana.
7 comments :
LOL how funny - the kid really knew what she didn't like!! my girls never wore much in the line of puffy lacey things.
Karen
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That is so funny- you gotta love a girl who knows who she is early on!
Oh I love it, I know the feeling too, my GD really knows her mind about what to wear. They do make you smile don't they!! Sometimes.
LOL...it was such a shock because prior to this event Courtney would wear anything!!!!
My girl loved those kinds of dresses. She loved anything that had a big skirt. Her dear grandmother made her a couple of Daisy Kingdom dresses! Now it is only jeans and a pull over....
Oh poor poor Nana....all that work LOL. I wonder why it horrified her so much. Thanks for the great belly laugh tonight.
Crispy
Oh Nanci! One of my husband's great aunts made a dress like that for my daughter, probably just about the same time as you made yours. It was pink silk taffeta with lace and pearls and a scratchy crinoline. She (fortunately?) mailed it, rather than delivering it in person. We got it on long enough for exactly ONE picture which was sent to the great-great in Florida. I'm not sure where that dress is either.
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