Firstly I’d just like to say what an amazing and wonderful bunch of people I am HONOURED to have as readers and therefore as friends. I was gobsmacked by the response to my last post and I’m truly overwhelmed at the outpouring of support and experience that came from you all. Thank you, all, from the bottom of my heart 
OKAY! Now we’re done with the schmaltzy PDA I can show you what I’ve been doing while I’ve not been doing anything. I know this won’t come as a surprise to any of you, given that I have four children but I’ve been indulging a lot in that naughty S word…*
…SHOPPING. You filthy minded scamps. What else did you think I was going to say? 
So. My good friend Evelyn posted photographs of her gorgeous daughter Esmé over a year ago and of course being me my first response was, “ZOMGshe’sgorgeousEvelynWHEREDIDYOUGETHERDRESS?!!” Evelyn graciously directed me to Cindy’s shop on Hyenacart but alas, she didn’t have any fabulous technicolour dreamdresses available in stock. I bookmarked the store then completely forgot about it until a couple of weeks ago when I was clearing out my email, I found an exchange between Cindy & I. I decided to drop her a quick line to see if she was still making the dresses and oh FRABJOUS day not only was she making the dresses but she had space for me to place an order. Hooray!
I thought Greer was probably a little young for the full twirly dress effect so I got one for Erica and one for my niece Bailey. My sister Stephanie and I have a pretty good deal going, I give her Erica’s clothes once she’s outgrown them then she passes Bailey’s clothes back to me for Greer. We have just acquired a new niece last week when my stepbrother and his girlfriend had a little girl so no doubt these dresses will be passed on to little Maissie too! Anyway, I digress. Point is, beautiful dresses of wonder arrived this afternoon and I immediately stopped what I was doing to make Erica put hers on. It’s so colourful it has immediately washed away bad mood (I was really irritated today because it’s been raining constantly for months and I need some sunshine!)
I think Erica likes it.
What do you think?
*That reminded me of a story. When I was in Primary 3 (so 6-7 years old) I remember grassing someone in my class in for swearing. The teacher asked me what the swear word started with and my precocious little reading mind went into overdrive and I said, “It began with an S.” The teacher had a think and couldn’t work out which particular profanity had been levelled so told me to whisper it, so I whispered, “shit“. She gave me into trouble and told be it didn’t start with S, it started with Sh! Isn’t it funny the things you remember?
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This post was written by Vonnie on September 3, 2009
I want that dress!
That dress is fantastic, so cute and colourful!
Woooowwwww! I want one!
On the swearing note, a wee boy once came up to my mum crying because another boy called him “a swearword that started with N”. After a wee while, still not being able to think of what it could possibly be, she asked him what it was.
“He called me a Narshole!” x
Ack! Pure love!! She looks positively adorable, Von!!!
I hope this wonderful dress can help boost your mood for a while!!
She is *so* cute. Love her hair in the second pic and the smile in the last one! And can I just say, that’s a mighty clean floor.
mmmmmm, loving the dress, would it be very wrong to put one on a boy? Maybe she would make one my size, I’d never take it off!
xxx
Beautiful! There aren’t enough amazing dresses like that in the world.
Your “S” word brought back memories for me too, I burst into tears when a girl said it in primary 2 because I was so shocked and then I cried again when I had to tell the teacher what the word was
Ooo it’s fabulous! That’s two people who have ordered from her after seeing Esmé’s dress lol. I think I need to get another one
Please tell me you haven’t had her ears pierced and I’m just imagining it! *sob*
The dress is lovely and so is Erica
That is literally amazing. I’m so jealous, I would love that for myself.
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It’s lovely! She looks so happy with it! Also, it looks really cosy! x
I’ve totally changed my opinion on this dress. She needs a pair of docs and some fairy wings though. That would be immense.