Victorian sailor dress

Ok! Last installment of the Port Townsend trip. I was busy taking pictures of other people and places on Sunday and didn't keep an eye on the battery on the camera. I was in the middle of photographing Rebecca when all of the sudden the battery died! I was really bummed as the sky was so perfect and the day was so great that I really wanted pictures of my dress against the dark and stormy sky. It was at that moment that I remembered I had my camera back at the B&B, so after saying our…

Cebu was fantastic! We really enjoyed it there. The food was wonderful and the people were so nice. We did not meet a single bad cabdriver. BLISS. This dress is what I pretty much wore while we were out (there was also the green Japanese fabric shirtdress, but I posted about that already) Glad I brought dresses because it was HOT over there. I don't think I would have survived the heat wearing jeans. These pictures show Connor and I where we love to be: Timezone and Red Mango Frozen Yogurt…

Finally the day arrived Saturday! Mama, Gracie, Lizzie, our wonderful friend Tammy and I got to attend Depotfest, a celebration of the Nampa Depot that was built in 1903. It is such a beautiful building and the Nampa Historic Society has turned it into a fabulous museum. Here are a few of the pictures that were taken on our fun day out!!! The rest you can find here... http://www.flickr.com/photos/75182632@N04/sets/72157630907871010/ China dolls. Mom made their dresses to match Gracie and…

For all intents and purposes she's done. I just have to make the detachable collar, and then she is really done!! I am in love!! I'm a little stresses about how the back lays, but I think that I will be able to amend that with some tweaking! Of course a good ironing job will be done on the dress before I wear it....this fabric for some reason wrinkles super easily. Never had that problem with dupioni in the past, but oh well! Now on to mom's dress! Started her wire frame hat this evening…

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1890-1902 summer seaside dress.