Last year, I hit it out of the park (in my humble opinion) with Miss Priss's Christmas dress. Behold, the magnificent Amanda Remembered Nativity Bishop:
After last year's glorious selection, I was eager to find an equally gorgeous follow-up this year. Sadly, as each line debuted their Christmas selections, I was disappointed time and time again. My visions of Miss Priss prancing down the same church aisle I walked down as a bride in The Perfect Christmas Dress were not working out as I had planned, because I couldn't find a dress that inspired me.Finally, I happened upon this (admittedly beautiful) Strasburg bishop, to use for Christmas Day:
And I decided on this (again beautiful) white bishop from Orient Expressed for Christmas Eve:
I do think that the white bishop with a red satin hairbow really will be gorgeous at Church.
I was (mostly) satisfied. But then today, I found this:
I simply couldn't leave Miss Priss's perfect Christmas dress out there waiting for her. It would break my heart. In swooped my dear friends (and fellow children's clothing addicts) C and A, who are the BEST when it comes to helping me rationalize purchases I really shouldn't make. Hee. C astutely pointed out that the Strasburg bishop would likely fit next year (her very tall 3.5 year old can wear the size I have, and Miss Priss will be 3.5 next Christmas). Plus, she knows me well enough to know that I simply had to have the dress. We are both big Christmas People, and suckers for all children's Christmas clothing. My friend A ran the numbers, and somehow came up with a formula in which, spread out over the number of years that I can feasibly choose Miss Priss's Christmas dresses, made the dress essentially free. Who can argue with that?
Now I'm thinking that I should take Miss Priss to the Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party here in town so she can wear her dress . . .
5 comments:
Of course you must find an event that matches the dress! Even if it means throwing your own Nutcracker party! Once you start drinking the Koolaid that we drink, there's just no going back. Let's see, the invitations can be mini-nutcrackers, you can have a basket of sugarplums as favors . . .
We have an entire Nutcracker Christmas tree. It's a sickness. I can't stop collecting Nutcracker stuff and my kids danced in their last Nutcracker in 2001.
I loved dressing my kids when they were little. I had the reputation at church for having the matchy-matchy best dressed family (DOTR and I always coordinated, of course). Now the best I can do is force everybody into the same color scheme for Easter.
Ooooh, maybe I could host a Nutcracker Tea!!! Too bad we're only going to be home one weekend in December this year. Hmmm.
I love the idea of a Nutcracker tree, too!
I'm going to be hitting the next sale soon to get most of my presents for relatives and friends. Just need to make a list now I think, on what I will be buying!
We also do a shoebox appeal in where members of our local church each pack an empty shoe box with tinned foods to send over to the African countries so they can have a better Christmas.
Those dresses are adorable! Next time, save time by looking on http://www.gatheringguide.com/ec/bridal_shops_dresses.html. It's where I got my flower girls dress and they have some lovely ones.
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