We started thinking about dresses a month before prom, I did not want to wait till the last minute to get things done. Chantel likes to sew and create things, So she found a pattern of formal skirt that she wanted to make. We got the material and everything we would need to make it. Needless to say everything stayed on her bedroom floor till the night before prom. It seemed to be going ok, she had it all cut out and half way sewn. She said told me that the only thing it needed was a zipper and to be hemmed. Well I dont know how to sew a zipper so I called my mom and she came over to sew the zipper in. We looked at the skirt and found out that the skirt had been sewn crooked and we would have to take the gathering stitches at the waist out and start over so that we could get the zipper in. We almost had it sewn back together when my sewing maching decided it had had enough and did not want to work any more.
Taking apart the skirt and getting the gathering to look right took most of the day. Chantel was supposed to meet her friends (by 5:15 )at a park and get pictures taken. (I was supposed to take the pictures). Instead of meeting her friends we were on our way down to AZ Bridal to get a prom dress. Luckily we found one pretty quick and were on our way to Target to get the last minute detail she needed. We got her home and tried to get her into the dress we just bought and when some of the snaps on the dress started coming off so we had to sew them back on. Well we fixed the dress and got her out the door and dropped off at The Olive Garden to meet up with her friends. I was back home and cleaning up from the day when Chantel called and told me she was at the wrong restaurant. Luckily one of her friends came and picked her up and drove them back to where the rest of the group was (from Power & Southern to Scottsdale & Osbourn). She had a good night and lots of fun once everything settled down.
Chantel was very sad on Sunday that she could not wear the dress she had bought because on her way into the house she dropped it in the wet gutter and got mud all over her brand new prom dress.
