We went to our local egg hunt yesterday. It is on the courthouse lawn and due to it being a tad chilly we didn’t dress up. I’m glad, I forget sometimes how sheltered our home is from the wind compared to the middle of town (it is up on a hill.) The girls would have froze in dresses.
twins at the hunt, the older two went with daddy to the other side (according to age group)
sitting down at my parents restaurant to inspect her findings
Speaking of dresses, the twins really wanted to wear their Minnie Mouse dresses instead of their cherry and lemon dresses. I figure why not, this is one whim I am more than happy to indulge. Liz is wearing a skirt I made out of a huge floral print I love (Alexander Henry, again) with a jacket it about killed me to buy at Gymboree:
It’s worth the price, don’t get me wrong. I guess once you really start sewing, spending as much as I would on supplies to make a dress and a top is hard. It’s a great little jacket that will get much use through the years as I know the twins will eventually wear it. Gymboree is good that way, their clothes wash and wear through a couple kids before wearing out. I could have tried making it, but was out of time.
Jane has on her “Nancy Drew” dress (chocolate brown plaid taffeta with a matching short velvet jacket.) It sounds odd, but is very lovely and according to her “okay that it isn’t bright fun colors because it’s brown like chocolate!” Oh, and it’s a Nancy Drew dress because it has a feel of an era gone by that she picks up reading Nancy Drew…love my oldest gal that way. Sounds good to me! Her dress that I was making, well, it didn’t survive and is being completely torn apart. It was all my doing, I put the pattern together wrong. Sometime soon, though I hope to have a great Paris Springtime dress to share. The fabric is black line art Eiffel towers and these great flowers on a cream background with just the slightest hints of an orangish-pink. The picture doesn’t do it justice:
