Bless Her Heart

“Blessed are the optimistic, for they will not be disappointed”

                                                                                    --mistranslation mine

I knew we were headed for an adventure when The Princess called me at work to ask if we still had “that sewing machine”. 

“Why do you ask sweetie?”

“We’re at Hancock’s buying fabric for Halloween costumes'”, she replied.  “Thanks, I’ll see you later”.

I thought my Halloween costume days were over but apparently high school seniors are not too old or too cool to participate in a little Halloween fun.   Bless her heart…

I’ve never been a fan of store bought costumes so through the years, I managed to create outfits out of things around the house or with very few purchased items.  I also managed to put them together with pins, glue, tape and staples.  I can hem but I do not really sew even though my sainted mother tried to show me how.  Bless her heart…

With one quarter of a semester class called “Family Consumer Science”, my daughter has more sewing experience than I have at 50- something (I’m embarrassed to say).  So with much enthusiasm and optimism, The Princess made her fabric choices and brought them home to create.   Bless her heart…

I got home from work to find this:

 

And this:

 

 

She had no pattern.  She wanted no help.  Bless her heart…

She did have satin, and some kind of tulle, sequins, and…

A ZIPPER.  Bless her heart…

 

And with great determination (and a small amount of frustration), two days later  she had this…

 

 

Isn’t she the cutest Tinkerbell you’ve ever seen?

I couldn’t have done a better job myself…bless her heart!