Layeeho-a-layeeho A-lay-heehooo....
Princess was so Excited...So much so that I was almost beside myself in anaticipation...
Word got out tht Princess is as you know quite adept with a bit of old fabric and her trusty Pfaff... Turning rags into wearable ritches...
So imagine my delight when I was recently approached to help in making some costumes for one of the local musical theatre groups
So... I extended my Voluntary hand graciously and discovered they are putting on a production of one of my all time favourite musicals
"The Sound of Music"
Fifty two in the cast each with 2-3 costume changes for each player.
I thought to myself "Would I be making the gowns for the Grand ball scene?
Measuring up Gaylords inside leg? Fashioning a brace of habits for the Nuns choir? Or perhaps I'd be so lucky as to create Fraulein Maria's Wedding Gown ? Heck... I'd even settle for Leisle's fabulous floaty little number for her tryst in the Gazebo with the telegram boy Ralph"
But alas....
I met yesterday evening with the costumier who was busy measuring up sailor suits for length...
"Oh... terrific Princess... thanks for offering your services" Pause....
How are you with childrens paterns and sizes?
My Princess senses by this stage were tingling and on high alarm
"Erm...pretty good... they're just adult clothes in miniature after all arn't they?"
And in the next sentence I saw my lofty visions of ballgown extacy...and inside legs turning to calico and florally home furnishing fabrics...
"Great! We need someone to make the Children's Play Clothes!"
"Oh... how... delightfully charming"... I responded in my best Baroness Schraeder voice... trying desperately not to show my dismay...
So Princess gets to transform the curtains into Play Clothes...
But Oh my Lordy...
Let me tell you. They will be the most fabulous Play Clothes this generation of the "Von Trapp Children" will have ever layed their little eyes on!
The bedazzler will be working over time on this little lot!
You mark my words!
There will be tears.... I can tell.
