These boys are honestly it’s the best thing that has ever happened to me. They are full of love and laughter, and while they drive me absolutely bananas, they also fill my world full of love and joy. And an insane amount of hectic and busy – but then they smile and the world melts away. They laugh and hug you and nothing else feels like it matters. I worry about them all the time, I think up crazy scenarios and then try to protect them from it – I’m told that’s normal how I’m not sure, but here we are. All this to say I haven’t quite gotten into the sewing projects I’ve wanted to do – Serenity’s dress being the big one.

Then of course comes Damian and his love for the Super Mario movies. “Mom, I want to be mario for Halloween, and you will be Peach, Dad will be Bowser, and Liam will be Luigi.” Of course he has all our costumes planned out, and don’t forget his aunt and niece. “Auntie Jenn will be Rosalina and Inara will be Princess Daisy”, I hate to break it to him but Inara is more likely to want to be the King of Koopas, or at the very least Wendy Koopa, Bowser’s only daughter. She’s more of a “cool weapon bruh” kinda gal than a tiara wearing princess. That said after some internal debate I thought back to our Toy Story and Jedi family costumes and remembered they will only be this little for so long and the desire to dress up as a family with mom and dad will fade away. So I should embrace it while it’s there.

Only problem is I’m not about to buy some princess dress on the internet and be done with it, that would be easy and I apparently prefer to do things the hard way. Now of course, I’ve been wanting to sew Serenity’s dress but I keep holding off for a number of reasons but the main one being if I do it wrong, this dress I’ve always wanted to make will scar me from wanting to try again. Princess Peach’s dress on the other hand isn’t a dress I’ve dreamt of wearing forever and a day. Not one that I’m so sold on that if I don’t do it right I’ll be heart broken, so why not start there. All I have to do is see if there is a pattern or one close enough and then make the dress, easy peasy right? No of course not. Because there isn’t one pattern there are three variations. Now I have to make a decision – the straight forward easy one, the slightly more complicated one or the fancy Ultimate Peachy Princess. Of course the straight forward easy one is a hands down easy choice for a person who has only sewn three articles of clothing in her life and has never ever made a ballgown – right? Nah, where’s the fun in that – if we’re doing this we’re going all in.

So here I am now on my first weekend of attempting this fiasco sitting in front of my computer after spending two days just printing, pasting and cutting the pattern out thinking…what the hell did I get myself into.

Of course, I welcome you to join me as I attempt this train wreck with photo evidence, because of course, pics or it didn’t happen.