Wedding Countdown

1960's wedding Midge leading off the post. 

My daughter Rachel's wedding will be at the end of this month. There has been so much preparation. From purchasing the dinner/dessert plates and champagne flutes at thrift, to sewing the wedding bunting, and preparing the fruitcakes months in advance. The image below are the bags and labels for the bride's fruitcake. 

It has been over 20 years since I have attended a wedding. Of course, you go through the spate of them when you are young and your friends are getting married. 

My son's wardrobe - Nunn Bush dress shoes, slacks and socks at Nordstrom Rack, and the sport jacket (not shown) and shirt at Men's Wearhouse (not an ad for either). Upscale shopping has moved into Folsom, California, so we don't have to travel to the mall in Roseville. 

I have four dark blue dresses I purchased secondhand online. Dress No. 1 I had altered and may still use it for some kind of event.  

I settled on Dress No. 2 for my mom of the bride dress. No alteration needed. 

The other two dresses are a strapless mini and a halter-top maxi, all the same color and material as the one shown. I may wear one or the other to the Friday wedding rehearsal. 

Feeling kind of hand naked without gloves on with the gown. Gonna have to buy the ones I have on wishlist.  

Buttons and the Backup Wedding Dress

My next category to enter for sale will be Buttons. When I buy sewing items in lots, I find buttons still on their original cards. While I like to keep the loose buttons for projects and repairs, I usually don't sew garments. Pictured below is my loose button stash.  

The last of the 80 yard-sale sewing patterns went on the boards. This was the only pattern of note - a Russian hat. Reminds me of the movie Doctor Zhivago. 

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Segueing to talk of my daughter's wedding. A location has been chosen, and a date in September 2025 is set. She wants to buy a new dress, I told her I would buy a "backup" wedding dress at thrift. This one came through hospice thrift priced at $12.99. Too beautiful to pass up, it has a few minor stains. I will try to work out how to fix that. She probably won't want the dress. I will keep it until after her wedding and sell it. 

Moving along much better in my eBay listing. I culled the majority of the rag dolls for sale. The primitives sell well, the others not so much. 

I don't know why I have so much trouble listing random items. Father's Day is fast approaching and these need a new home. I have had these 1980s Ducks Unlimited mugs for at least 2 years. Thrift shop price was around $5 a piece, priced at $120 for the pair. 

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Next listing session is Yarn. Just sold 9 skeins of Caron Christmas yarn for $35! Those were from a church rummage sale lot of yarn, average cost of purchase 10¢ per skein.