Congrats of the Condo. I am not a huge fan of Branson but I am sure you will have a good time.
I have been focusing a lot on budgeting lately myself too.
I actually rather hate Branson, but the town they grew up in in so small there is only one no-tell motel. (While it isn't quite that bad it is very old and small...not a comfortable place to spend our vacation!)
But since there is no real place to stay close by, we decided that Branson is at least loaded with places to eat and things to do. There are lots and lots of expensive fabric stores! And we will end up at Silver Dollar City, which my husband mistakenly thinks is the same as going to Disney!
Yikes... I have a bag full (I'd probably have to turn my sewing room upside down to find them too) - but if you would have texted me, I would have looked for you, taken a picture to see if they match and sent you one free of charge... If you still want me to do this... let me know. I'd be happy to.
I can get it in the mail today yet.
We have been having budget talks lately, as well... Nothing horrible - we just need to be better about sticking to it. Our food budget is closer to $350/mo - I don't know how you do it on $250, I am barely squeeking by on what we have... Which is why I've taken to so much couponing.
Yikes - congratulations on the condo... sadness on skipping one trip or the other... Hopefully there is some way you can make it work to not have to skip anything.
Yay for the June trip though!!!
D~
Thanks for the offer...but I was able to cannibalize my grand daughters too small (by about 3 years) Steam Boat Willie dress and reuse those buttons. My order of 20 new white Mickey head buttons is on its way (at the same price I paid 3 years ago!)
I spent a little over 2 hours ripping out a serged ruffle from one of my customer dresses!
I knew it wasn't perfect...but I didn't realize just how bad it looked until I took a picture of it to send to the customer...oh my! It was not even in the same playing field as 'ok'! I seriously need to get my ruffler attachment to work more consistently! Spending this much time ripping is not a very productive way to spend my time... it works good for short ruffles...but one that goes the whole length around the bottom of the skirt is so inconsistent...yucko!
I have now used about a million pins and attached the bottom ruffles on both underskirts and overskirts...now to see if when I sew it on it looks decent. If not I'll rip it out again and try once more. I am so ready to get this order out of my house and get my launch dress finished! (Hopefully this launch dress will sell and I won't have to look at it much more...not liking it as much as I did when i first thought of it!)
On the June trip--- trying to decide if we want to rent a small wheel chair for Mr D. Hubby thinks we should see if he can walk since it is only one day. But after a shopping trip to Hobby Lobby and Joanne's over the weekend, I can see that after about an hour he will be miserable. If I could get him to wear his orthodics his feet would be a bit more comfortable...but he will never be able to walk for long distances.
After the accident, he had such poor muscle tone that he had both of his arches fall. As in they are completely on the ground. Then the ankle bone fell...I am drawing a blank as to what the bone is called, but he walks on the ankle. The foot is turned so bad that he walks on his inside ankle... Not very comfortable!
Speaking of feet...I knew my grand Princess had 2 different sized feet, but did not realize how bad it was...they went shoe shopping last night. On her good foot she wears a size 12. On her bad foot she wears a toddler size 7. They have to work really hard to find a shoe that comes in both sizes ...and then buy 2 pairs of shoes.
They went shoe shopping last night...she should be a happy camper...she LOVES shoes! LOL!
Miss B is about to catch the school bus and I am going down to sew!
Nini
