Christmas is coming

For several years, it has been my habit to make Christmas sweat shirts for the women in my family to wear. (Well, at least for my sister, my niece, and me to wear.) This year, it will be my niece, her mother-in-love, and I who will have shirts alike to wear to the city Christmas parade or to wear shopping when it is cold. We have always tried to be sure that those shirts portrayed the meaning of the season.

Because I do have a sewing machine that will embroider this year, our shirts will have machine embroidery rather than being done by hand by me as I have done before. And so, my niece and I have been shopping via the computer to find the "right" design. It had to be "just right" to please my niece who was very specific about the design.

Now, after two weeks of finding and posting back and forth, we have a design.

I hope that I have it large enough that you can easily read it and see the differences in the colors of gold that show the baby as different from the manger and straw and can see the differences that separate the letters of J O Y from the rays of the light of the star.

I do think that the various golds and cream threads wil be beautiful against the deep blue of the shirt and I hope that all who see us wearing the shirts will acknowledge the "reason for the season."

the wedding dress rethought

Because several people had wanted to see more of the wedding pictures, I am going to post as many as I can put into one post. I won't particularly comment as the pictures of the many costumes is what they all wanted to see.

In the first two photos, you can see Kayci being laced into her wedding dress; and the next three photos are of the "castle," a wedding venue east of Dallas.

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The sixth photo is the groom in all white and gold with his attendants, along with the minister. And in the next you can see the Kayci's attendants in the long red velvet Tudor style coats.

At last, the bride is presented at the front by her father who is wearing black with a red trimmed cloak; and finally, she is given to Seth for the actual ceremony and Kayci and Seth stand before the minister to recite their vows, both wearing white velvet trimmed in gold embroidery.

Then the fun and the dancing began. I hope that you enjoy seeing all of the various costumes which different members of the wedding party wore along with the costumes worn by many of the guests.

Oh! and yes, the wedding party and many of the guests wore masks for the ceremony and they were very interesting in design, several having been ordered from Italy; but, to me, the most interesting of the wardrobe embellishments was Seth's plume in his hat. That was quite a white feather and it really made the costume for me.