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I don’t know, and I’m too lazy to go find out, whether or not I’ve posted about “Operation Princess” yet, and since I just made up the name of “Operation Princess” I’m pretty sure I haven’t mentioned it. At any rate we are going on a family reunion cruise with relations on my Dad’s side of the family. There will be six female cousins under eighteen on that cruise, one of which will be me. Now being that I am an experienced cruiser and being that I remembered how fun formal nights were and being that I enjoy dressing up… And for a lot of other reasons it was decided that it would be fun for all of the girls to dress up as fairy tale princesses one formal night. When I mentioned this plan to my cousins the response was highly positive, especially when I said that I would make the fairy tale princess gowns for them to wear. One of my cousins can sew so I probably won’t do her outfit. However I have four young cousins to sew fairy tale princess dresses for, and of course I have my dress to do too:)

I now have all of the materials for one of the girls dresses and I am probably going to make hers tomorrow. It’s a few weeks until the cruise so I do have some time. There probably will be LOTS of pictures taken of the girls in their dresses on the cruise. I hope they(the outfits) look very nice… I’ll have to see… My skills at sewing are not so great that they could not be greatly improved on. In other words, I have a lot to learn about sewing. The first outfit I’m making is pretty simple though, it’s theme is red and black dragons so it’s a red basic medieval dress with a black cape and the main time consuming piece on it is the hand cross stitched plastic canvas belt which has black dragons with red wings on it and the girls name embroidered on it too. I haven’t finished cross stitching that yet, but it looks nice so far!

I’m hoping to be able to do a water/ocean theme with one of the girls dresses, and then a daffodil theme with another girls dress. Then Purple Princess with the third girl’s dress. These three girls are sisters and apparently their email is not checked very often… However as I only got the idea for this Friday(or thereabouts) and it’s currently Wednesday and I have heard back from them twice they aren’t quite negligent of their email:)

My dress is still a mystery. I’ve gotten several ideas I like but I haven’t really put any of those into action yet. As I would like a new dress to wear on the cruise I doubt I will use one of my existing costumes. However I might…

I saw an iceberg today, I think… I hope there won’t be icebergs in Bermuda(where we are going on the cruise). I think the word “Titanic” is usually connected with icebergs and as it was a cruise ship of sorts and we are going on a cruise…

I think it would be fun to have my dress be pink. I do have some nice pink fabric already on hand. However I’m not sure of the style etc… I also have a really neat bright yellow and orange dress figured out, but I don’t think Mom would let me wear such bright colors… Maybe for a movie though. I suppose I should stop typing and go to bed. I have a lot to do tomorrow and an extremely messy room to do it in. Sewing does not exactly make a room a cleaner…

Also, on the writing front, I have done some writing on a very interesting and humorous story. It’s currently about five pages long. True, I may not finish it before pigs grow wings and fly or before my brother gets married and lives happily ever after but it’s still an interesting story and has great potential. Unfortunately(or maybe fortunately) I have a whole folder of at least twenty-five stories with great potential, and a brain full of many more. One of my major character flaws is that I have little stability. I just don’t do things in a consistent manner. However, I have been fairly regular with writing posts lately. And now I really must stop writing and go to bed.