Part IA, Part UP

Is there a rule about self-baked cookies having no calories?

Crumble them up a bit.  When there is breakage = no calories!  (the calories leak out & evaporate during the breakage process)

Oh yes! Broken cookies have no calories at all. It's a fact! 

UP I've fallen in love with a wedding dress that's completely not my normal style
IA i can't afford it

http://www.justinalexanderbridal.com/en_eu/justin-alexander/8465.html

Omg, CB- I love love love that dress.  Hope you can find something similar on the cheap.

UP I've fallen in love with a wedding dress that's completely not my normal style
IA i can't afford it

http://www.justinalexanderbridal.com/en_eu/justin-alexander/8465.html

Wowers!

Maybe you commission someone to make something similar.........any sewers you know who'd like to contribute to your wedding in a personal way?

Wowers!

Maybe you commission someone to make something similar.........any sewers you know who'd like to contribute to your wedding in a personal way?

I think the colour and beading are too specific and delicate to be copied easily, I've seen some chinese websites that have the dress listed as something they copy, but I don't want a sweatshop dress (although admittedly many wedding dresses are made in china anyway, it's just not something I'm comfortable with), I would worry about fit and quality anyway.

I don't know anyone who sews in the UK who would be able to reproduce something like that really, I'm still looking

It is nice though right? I wasn't crazy about it but the more I look at it the more I like it, I've seen a couple of "real brides" wearing it and it looks fabulous.

I think the colour and beading are too specific and delicate to be copied easily, I've seen some chinese websites that have the dress listed as something they copy, but I don't want a sweatshop dress (although admittedly many wedding dresses are made in china anyway, it's just not something I'm comfortable with), I would worry about fit and quality anyway.

I don't know anyone who sews in the UK who would be able to reproduce something like that really, I'm still looking

It is nice though right? I wasn't crazy about it but the more I look at it the more I like it, I've seen a couple of "real brides" wearing it and it looks fabulous.

CB, you can always look into the tailor I go to who also makes wedding dresses. She's amazing with alterations, but I can't say I've seen her one-off work. She's soooo reasonably priced for central London. I took a bridesmaid dress to her that was over 4 sizes too big for me (that's what I get for ordering it online) and by the time she was done with it, you would never have been able to tell. I've taken several other pieces to her over the year and have always been really happy with her work. Her studio is on St Martin's Lane in Covent Garden.

Here's her website if you're interested: http://www.carmenstailoring.co.uk/services.htm

CB, you can always look into the tailor I go to who also makes wedding dresses. She's amazing with alterations, but I can't say I've seen her one-off work. She's soooo reasonably priced for central London. I took a bridesmaid dress to her that was over 4 sizes too big for me (that's what I get for ordering it online) and by the time she was done with it, you would never have been able to tell. I've taken several other pieces to her over the year and have always been really happy with her work. Her studio is on St Martin's Lane in Covent Garden.

Here's her website if you're interested: http://www.carmenstailoring.co.uk/services.htm

I absolutely will! Thanks!

I absolutely will! Thanks!

It's gotta be possible.    Good luck!

UP I've fallen in love with a wedding dress that's completely not my normal style
IA i can't afford it

Champagne taste on a beer budget It is a gorgeous dress. When are you getting married?

IA: One of my kittens (Oliver, the ginger) just wandered over and curled up on my leg for skritchies. This is the first time either of them has initiated contact!

IA: Getting weighed at the GP.

UP:  Apparently I am as healthy as a horse otherwise.  The nurse practitioner seemed a bit shocked by that. I expected *something* to trigger one of their tests, but I guess not.  I will take fat and healthy I guess.

I got the job at The Treehouse!!!  It doesn't pay much, but its close by, and the girls I met there were amazing and can't wait to be my new friends, they practically invited me for a night out with them already!  I felt right at home there as soon as I was talking to them.

I also got another interview on Thursday for a PA/Secretary job for maternity cover for 6 -12 months, though I'm not sure if I should bother going now. And I haven't heard back from the people I interviewed with yesterday, though I feel really positive about that job. Thing is, I know if I get that first job I interviewed for (admin asst), I should take it, but I will feel terrible canceling out at the restaurant after they were so excited for me to work there (I thought the manager was going to hug me before I left!), and making new friends at work and being active again sounds more fun than sitting in a tiny office by myself all day, even though I'd be earning more money and taking a step up on my CV.  However, we only have the one car, so the restaurant would be super easy to get to by bus and lots of other people who work there live in my area, so they said I could car share with them. If hubs gets a job away in Newcastle or somewhere, sharing the car would be very tricky.

Well congrats Jewlz, but tough one 

Congrats, Congrats, Congrats!

No advice this time, I feel terrible about saying I thought you should stay at the factory rather than take the outdoors job only for the factory to close down a week later. Been having the major guilts!

Jewlz, I'll bet they all want to hire you!  It's great to be in demand. 

Any way that you could do a bit of both (if you get offered one of the other jobs) - I mean take the full time gig, but maybe do a few shifts at The Treehouse too?