Debi Scissorhands

Yesterday was a day full of wedding stuff!  Venti and Mocha are home for the weekend and made plans to check a lot of things off the list of many things that needed done for the wedding.

At 10am I had an appointment with a seamstress to see if she could turn my dress into what I wanted it to look like.  I had posted an add on craigslist with pictures of the dress and a description of what I wanted done to it.   If you missed that post, you can read it HERE.   I had never met this lady and so when I got there I pulled up in front of her dilapidated apartment building and climbed the steps to her 3rd floor apartment.  The door opened and there stood this petite little woman who graciously welcomed me into her home and shakes my hand and introduces herself as "Debi."  She ushered me across the hallway and into a spare room that had a naked mannequin, an antique chair that was half upholster and a floor length mirror.  She shut all the blinds and said, "see you in a couple of minutes"....so I put the dress on and stood there a couple of minutes gazing around at the bare room.  As quickly as she disappeared she reappeared back into the room. "Oh you look beautiful", she said....."thank you".

She knew what I wanted done to the dress and so she starts at the cleavage where I said that I thought it was too low and she said, "yes..you don't want to look like a houche momma!"   She said, "I have an idea"....she then takes her scissors, goes to the back of the dress and starts cutting a piece of fabric!
She then disappears into another room and I'm left standing there with a hole cut out of my dress!  She returned in like 10 seconds with the piece of fabric and had it sewn into an accordion, grabbed 2 pins and transformed the cleavage into looking like the dress was made that way!  "Amazing" I said! 

Next she whips me around so that I'm turned sideways at the mirror.  She said, "you don't want the ruffles right?"......"ummm no I said", so she grabbed her scissors that I swear turned into an even bigger pair of scissors and starts cutting the ruffles off like she was cutting her hedges outside!  Yikes I thought!  What is she doing to my dress!!
While watching her in the mirror all I could think of was Edward Scissorhands and it was at that moment that I think my armpits started to sweat and not because I was on the 3rd floor and it was 90 degress outside!  Here I was with this $400 dress, standing in a bare room in a 3rd floor apartment of someone that I don't even know and she has these gigantic pair of scissors cutting away at my dress!!

She then lifts up the back of the dress where it had some tulle to make the dress puff out more....she said, "you don't want this do you?"...."ummm no I said", but with even more hesitation.  She grabs the tulle in the middle and yank!....out it goes!   She turns me this way...and that way....and cuts and pins and when I turn one way I see a pile of my lovely fabric on the dirt stained carpet and when I turn another way I look at the tulle dancing on the floor in the path of the fan.  "Am I going to faint?".....take a deep breath....

Maybe 10 minutes later she says "there...how's that?"  I turn to look in the mirror and the dress was amazingly transformed already!  Wow I said.....she chuckled and said, "I love my job"....she said it needs re-sewn in the back and the ruffles cleaned up.  I twirled around and really couldn't believe what Debi Scissorhands had done to the dress in that short amount of time.  She said you can get changed now and disappeared into another room.  She popped back in and we made an appointment for July 29th for me to come back and try it on.  She said she would have it steamed and ready.  She didn't mention yet how much it was going to cost so I said, "how do you want to do the payment?  Do you want half now and half later?"  She said, "you don't have to", and I said, "well I would want half if I were you" and she said, "well I have your dress though" and winked at me....hmmm.  So she said it would be $60 total and I gave her $30 cash.  No receipt.  Yes, I'm too trusting!

She bustled me out the door and I sat in the car pondering what had just taken place.  I didn't have a lot of time to think about it because I had to meet Venti and Mocha at the caterers.  I got there and Mocha's Mom was there too.  We went over the menu and were brought a plate of chicken piccata to try.  It was very good and so they finalized the menu and off we left to the bridal shop where Mocha and myself were meeting my cousin and her little girl Talia to try on flower girl dresses.  We found the perfect one and Talia looked so cute! 

Later for dinner Joe and I went out for date night!  We had their specialty which was BBQ ribs, BBQ, Hot Wings and Fries.  It was a plate for 2 which we shared and could have shared with 2 other people because it was so large!  We brought half of it home, but boy was it good!

We will be spending the day at the pool today with Venti and Mocha!  Hope everyone has a fantastic Saturday!  I will post the Meet Me On Monday questions tomorrow evening so you can post them Monday morning!