best friends

This weekend made me realise that a good friend is one who will take time out of their lives to patiently hold your hand and teach you a new skill. A couple of my friends have been teaching me how to quilt, and with my swearing, sulking and drunken cutting, it can't be an easy task. But they keep going, and keep laughing, and I have almost finished my quilt. That is friendship.

A good friend is also one who will wrap you in a garbage bag, cling wrap and duct tape while drinking champagne. I sent a text to this friend on Saturday asking "do you need me to bring anything apart from champagne and duct tape?" - if someone intercepted that I'm sure they could take it the wrong way!
What we were actually doing is making a "Duct Tape Dress-Makers Dummy" so that I can use it to make clothes. It makes sense, really it does! But it was definitely a funny sight. We were wondering how we would explain it to the paramedics should something go wrong, or the people on the street should we have to evacuate the house all of a sudden.
Only a really good friend will go to so much effort! And you would only trust a really good friend to do it and then cut you out of it!

As they say - a really good friend will help you hide the body!

wedding dress

A couple of weeks ago my sister got engaged...and now the hunt is on for a theme, a venue, and of course...a dress! My sister is currently determined to go with a Red dress because it will be different and unique. For anyone else a red dress would be different and unique, but not for my sister. She once had a 'Black & White' party (where everyone had to wear black and/or white) and she wore Red so that she would stand out. That's just who she is.

I'm hoping that when we go shopping for dresses and she starts trying some on the she will change her mind about the red dress. I think a coloured dress would be lovely and I definitely don't have anything against it, but I don't think it has to be red.

Yesterday I sent her the link to Unique Vintage, and this is the dress she has currently fallen in love with:

But we must keep in mind that she has only just started looking and so there is every chance she will change her mind.

I love this dress and I think it would look great on her. More than that, I love the little veil the model is wearing. My sister has short hair and so she was already thinking that a fascinater would look better than a long veil, and I think something like this could be perfect.