The prom for D-man and A-girl's school was on a Friday night. Then, the prom for J-girl's school was Saturday. Then, Sunday, was Youth Sunday at our church and D-man delivered one of the sermons.
Originally, D-man and J-girl had talked about saving money and just choosing one prom, but in the end, they decided it was their senior year and went to both.
But, I am going to start with A-girl. They went with a group of kids. A-girl went with her friend, C-girl. (much more relaxing way to enjoy prom than on an awkward date with a boy you hardly know)
I was so proud of her and her dress.
I am going to brag on her a bit. She put this dress together for $15. The top part was a dress she found on clearance at a local boutique. The bottom tulle was from a different dress in our stash of clothes for repurposing for the fashion line she and L-girl have. She sewed the tulle onto a separate underskirt, so she didn't have to alter the knee length dress at all and it could still be a little black dress for later in life.
Voila.....old Hollywood glamour for $15!
She was able to borrow earrings from my friend, Alex.
I wanted her to have a little something special for her first prom and since she wouldn't be getting a corsage from a boy, I made her a hair comb. (I just noticed that it is sticking out a little funny in this picture, but you get the idea.) I went to an antique store and found the sparkly leaf pin and then just used invisible thread to sew/attach it to a hair comb. She will be able to wear it as a brooch (if she ever wants to).
D-man and J-girl:
I love that crazy haired man/boy. He has a great group of friends.
Goofballs.
A good time was had by all.
Onto prom weekend, Part II.
When D-man and J-girl went to prom last year, I went with him to pick out her corsage at a local florists shop. The lady behind the counter whipped around her shop, grabbing this rhinestone bracelet and that ribbon and said, okay, that will be.....$90. I gulped I looked at D-man. He looked at me. I said to the lady, "Is there anyway we can bring that price down some?" She said we could take off the rhinestone studded bracelet and that would bring it down to like $75.
I looked at D-man and said something like, is that the amount you had planned to spend? Is that in your budget? That kind of thing. I was trying to give him a graceful way to get out of this completely stupid expense. He was offended/embarrassed that I had said anything and huffed at me, "Yes, mom, that is fine." Took out his wallet and spent stupid money.
As we walked out to the car, I couldn't keep my mouth shut. I uttered phrases like "complete and total rip off!" "what a racket!" "Why would you think it is okay to spend that much money on flowers that are going to die?" "I could make something like that for under $20."
D-man, in turn, uttered phrases like, "Why did I even bring you with, mom?" "Enough, mom, I get it!"
I made him promise me that next year (which is now this year) he wouldn't be so stupid with his money and would at least consider letting me make something for him.
As prom weekend was getting closer, I finally said to him "So, are you going to let me make J-girl's corsage this year?" He said, "If it will save me money and still look good, then yes."
So, I did. I had some ideas about what I wanted to do and put out a call to my friends to see if they had any costume jewelry or brooches that people didn't want or were just sitting in their drawers. My friends Paula and Alex came through and gave me all kinds of stuff to choose from.
This started as one of those headbands. I added an old earring in the center of the flower and the dangling key.
I made his boutonniere too.
Not sure if you can see it, but I cut apart a necklace that had hearts and keys and attached the heart to D-man's and the key to J-girls.
In the busy-ness of the weekend, I forgot to get close-ups of the ones I did for their second prom. This one shows them off pretty well though. For this night, I gave her the heart hidden in her corsage and him the key. I also went to an antique store and found a brooch/pin for the center of her flower. So, she can leave it as a corsage, but also take it off and wear it as a pin somewhere down the road.
I was actually really proud of how they turned out. I used stuff we already had, borrowed some ribbon from my friend, Sherri, had the jewelry from my friends, Alex and Paula and bought Dollar Store/Walmart flowers. Seriously, I probably spent like $22 total and that covered A-girl's hair thing, plus 2 nights worth of corsages and boutonnieres. .
J-girl says I should go into business making these next year. She didn't realize that I had made them until Sunday when D-man told her. (Thankfully she hadn't make any bad comments about them before she knew I had made them. Whew! She liked them, she really liked them.....)
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