No pictures this post, but I spent this past Saturday adding grommets to the muslin dress to see how it would look and fit laced up, and it turned out great. On Sunday I cut out my dress in the "real" fabric. I have enough fabric left over that I think I will make my wedding day purse out of it - probably a simple drawstring one (instead of crocheting it). I also bought the fabric for Mike's shirt and am trying to decide what else to do for his look. Right now I think he might look too "plain", so am thinking about making him a vest too. He's open to whatever I want him to wear (and thankful that he doesn't have to wear a suit
), so that's making it a lot of fun for me. He did help me pick out his shirt fabric - and I do want him to like what I'm making for him.
I spent a couple of hours at the store looking at ribbon and lace for making my garter and finishing off my dress. That was a lot of fun because there are so many pretty ribbons and trims one can use. Not sure what I'll end up doing as time might be of essence. That is, I might run out of time! But I did pick up some pretty things and if I don't use them on my dress, I'll use them for something else.
While out I also picked up a beautiful photo album for our wedding and honeymoom pictures. I don't like most official wedding albums that are usually white with pearls and ribbons and sometimes even puffed up. Just not my "style" I guess you could say. The one I bought has a cover of hand-made paper (kind of wrinkly looking) that has pressed, dried wheat in between the sheets. They also had one with pressed rose petals, but since our wedding is in autumn, the wheat just reminded me more of cool weather and blue skies - and autumn (my favorite season!). I also eye-balled a beautiful brown leather one, but decided on the wrinkly paper one instead.
Jenny, my photographer, will also have sample albums for me to look at when in Montana, so I might have even more options. She sounds very creative and might have something that works even better than the one I picked out.
I should have more pictures this weekend of Mike's fabric, the lacing on my muslin dress and who know what else?
