Stepping back in Time

 

This memory is embedded in my brain helping me through those days of weary and stress. Time has past since this trip to Cali with many events of Family gatherings and a rekindling of a lost relationship with a sibling who was one of my best friends during our teenage years blossoming again. The end of April brought me home to a wonderful surprise. (I know this was many, many months ago. It is also something I would like to document and just have not had the time to do so.) I stepped off the plane to be driven to see the Grandbabies where low and behold, my Soldier Son was hiding waiting to surprise me. I laughed and cried at the same time, how nice of him to journey home to be with his Family. I couldn’t stop smiling, and it no longer mattered that my time clock was off from travel. God had blessed me, seeing me safe on my Cali journey to be with my Cali Girl and kept me safe for my journey home to be with my three for the celebration of our Savior Jesus Christ.

We dyed our eggs for the next days hunt. This was the reason I went for the visit. Oh how it is all coming back to me now. Easter Sunday was a great day with our first egg hunt with the babies, with the in laws help of filled eggs from a rained out hunt they had planned to have.

With Easter behind us May would quickly approach bringing Mother’s Day two weeks later and my work room screaming for me to get busy on the Prom dresses needing their special touches for the right fit to be worn for a very important night. So many to tend to, and I had a heavy work load, along with the prom dresses. I felt a bit overwhelmed. Wanted to be back in Cali at this point playing.  

Six of over a dozen I altered within a months time. I had a few favorites that sewed up easily, a few drastic changes were made creating headaches and in the end making nearly no money, due to the time spent on the alteration. Dresses were not the only headache I had at the time. I also had promised a big job of reupholstering and creating new cushion covers for a boat. Most definitely did not charge enough for that job. I Would not have made this deadline if the Man had not pitched in and helped me out. Thank You to the Man. Love you long time.

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boat cushion project over 15 cushions and 30 yards of suede cloth was used. The reupholstering was quite tough and a lot of the arm cushions had the oddest shapes. Tore apart each cushion cover making notations on each piece in order to reassemble hoping I remembered the order and direction correctly. The date kept getting pushed up by the client putting more pressure on me to find time I did not have. Heck it was rainy and cool in May who was taking a boat out? In the end they loved the job and paid me extra, for they realized I underestimated the pricing for I was not informed of the reupholstering jobs. Good clients. Will I except this kind of job again? H to the big fat NO!!

May arrives and still I am a bit overwhelmed. Two jobs, my shop, and the work load continues to be heavy from the shop I help out. http://alterations-station.net  Employees working on an hourly wage can and do take time off for vacations when there are other employees to pick up the slack. This hard work would prove to be needed for the extra income (little did I know) would be ear marked for home improvements at the end of the month. Now to fit into this schedule as well the tear apart of a BCBG dress, salvaging the fabric to up cycle it into a skirt. I put this customer off long enough and the job needed to be done. I was very pleased with the outcome and also skeptical of restitching the label back in to a garment that had been changed. I did the label reattachment any way due to the fact the fabric had come from the styling's of a baby doll dress constructed by BCBG manufacturers. Fit was to a tee and the customer did not mind she had to wait over a month for her new garment. 

Once a dress, now a skirt with shirred waistband and side tie. I would have saved this beautiful embroidered fabric myself if I had tired of it being a dress. Always keep in mind, garments can be restyled into a different garment if you search for a Tailor with the talents and knowledge I possess. Anything's possible.

Work load wrapped up, now a little time to celebrate me. Mother of 4 giver to all. The end of May will send us into Hell with heat, and a brothers visit to remedy my hot working environment.

Hope you, my readers tune back in for the documenting of my past months.