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Two changing rooms! Jason has been a doll and changed the one big changing room into two smaller ones. But with a twist, the center curtain pulls back to make it one big changing room if there are more than one who want to change together or bring a stroller in. I also have the bathroom which works as a third changing room. Super!
Our flower girl Ruby has her dress! It looks just like this one, only without the puff on the sleeve. We found it last night at the Nordstrom Rack in Alderwood, the one in downtown Seattle doesn't have a children's department any more. It is the perfect dress and only $30. The same dress was over $100 at the evil David's bridal. I also bought her a red sparkle knit shrug with a black fur collar and little white shoes all for under $60. You just can't beat the Rack!
On Monday, my day off for dress shopping, I found my sister's maid of honor dress at the Nordstrom in downtown Seattle. On the third floor there is a department that I always go to when I need a maid of honor dress for myself and have always found the perfect dress, in silk for around $100. I have yet to find my dress and will probably go to Cicada bridal and have them make one to my design. I want a 50's inspired tea length dress which is a bit difficult to find as most shops carry the full length strapless numbers. I went into the gorgeous Luly Yang downtown on 4th and had a marvelous time looking at the most amazing dresses. They are amazingly nice there and very helpful, highly recommended if you have a bit of a higher budget.
Here are my inspirational pictures for the dress that I envision:
that is David's Bridal. Now, before I get a universal, "I told you so!" I thought I would just pop in to see what's what there. We were up at the Alderwood Mall a couple of weekends ago to look for Jason's wedding ring, which we found after looking at hundreds of rings. Some people in the jewelry shops are very nice, but have such a small selection for men and some people in other shops don't even acknowledge you when you walk in, those shops we just walk right back out of. Anyway, we found his lovely ring at the Shane co, they were super nice and helpful as well as having a huge selection. He chose a white gold ring that had been handtooled with yellow gold detail on the outside, very elegant.
So, back to the bridal nightmare, I have been on the David's Bridal website which is very nice and fun. You can put together a snapshot of your whole wedding party dressed to party (see mine below):
ok, it doesn't really look like us, but you get the idea. We are having a black & white wedding with red accents and flowers. I thought I would go in and see this one dress that I was interested in. As soon as I walked into that awful place I was accosted by a very large, young person for not having an appointment. I told her that I would just like to have a look at one dress that I had seen online. She proceeded to inform me that those dresses only go up to a size 16, being a size 10 I told her that shouldn't be a problem. She looked me up and down and let me know that I was probably a size 16 and might fit into that dress, but I have to make an appointment. Well, as you can imagine I stormed out of there and was nearly in tears. Jason did his best to calm me down, but I will NOT be buying my dress from the wedding supermarket.
Ruby Sky! Fetchingly featured here in her new brown teddy bear hat with the lavender trim that I crocheted for her special day. Birthday #2~!
And man are they fabulous!! I only have a few styles so far as I don't have a lot of room for all of the shoe boxes, but once the website is up and running will have more styles and colors available.
Brown print fabric strappy heel -- $72
Black Flat with blue button -- $64
Green Wedge -- $68
Here is my choice :)
Along with the shoes are fun tote bags from the same company, I have made a bag laundry line behind my counter. They are $40 -- too cute!
Being a Bride to be! Jason and I got engaged on my birthday, March 3rd :D We were on the Oregon Coast to celebrate my birthday and after a huge dinner and opening presents, under a full moon my honey popped the question! I, of course, blubbed like a baby whle he put the most beautiful vintage ring on my finger. He had searched antique shops for months to find the perfect 1939 platinum ring to match my personality. Love that man :)
I will be posting fun plans here on my blog leading up to the wedding on September 16th. We have made reservations on the Skansonia ferry for the ceremony and reception. It is such a relief to have the venue sorted out, because you can't start making plans until that is found. They are amazing, they take care of so much. We pretty much just have to show up :)
Two $20 Chandeliers from Ikea! They certainly brightened up a stormy grey day yesterday and made me very happy :) Since tomorrow is the first day of spring, I'm hoping for some spring type weather to go with all of the adorable dresses in the shop!
Here is a picture of the new rail that Jason put up a couple of weeks ago. So pleased to have room for 100 more items!
Not Martha wrote a great write-up of Frock Shop on her blog :) I have been reading her blog since before I knew what a blog was. She has such fun craft ideas! She has some great pictures of the new rail we put up a couple of weeks ago. It has allowed room for 100 more clothing items and a great big shelf for more bags and cushions. Spring has definielty sprung here :D
We are currently working on the shopping website for Frock Shop that will go live at the end of May with lots of fun spring/summer frocks and jewelry. Yippee!
in a fab Dress! The lovely Cassie Mae Chappel on Martha Stewart this morning wearing a great wrap dress from my Frock Shop. She looked wonderful and was very cool working next to Martha. She makes very beautiful roses from coffee filters. You can see her work on her website: www.mommymakesroses.com
Here is a picture of the dress that she wore in the teal color. It's available in Brown, Teal and Black. Cassie wore the brown color. She did a great job!
