The Baby Princess

The whole reason my life came to a screeching halt is just beautiful! "Jack-Jack" as she will be known on my blog was born March 18th, at 12:59pm. 8lbs 5oz and 21.25 inches.

She is just perfect and all my hard work to lay low and stay calm paid off. My blood pressure was great the entire pregnancy but I managed to develop gestational diabetes. My blood pressure spiked my third night in the hospital and once again the nurses were frantic trying to keep me from having a stoke. So the Dr's orders to lay low and be stress free are still in effect. I'm on medication and my blood pressure is great for now. At my 6 week check up we'll reevaluate and hopefully the medication will be taken away and I will be good to go.

We're working on finding what normal will be like from now on and I'm excited to get back to work as soon as it is possible and realistic.

I hope you all are staying beautiful and busy partying!!

Good news for me, bad news for you

I am happy to announce I am expecting a baby the end of March. Unfortunately this isn't good news for all of my clients and potential customers. I skip by all of the morning sickness and other symptoms in the beginning of pregnancy but I get hit by Pregnancy Induced Hypertension in the latter half of my pregnancies. 

I have been placed on bed rest with 2 of my 3 girls and I expect to face similar challenges with this baby as well. It was a very hard decision to make but I will not be taking any more orders for the foreseeable future. I will be finishing up the orders I have on my list and then I will be closed for an extended maternity leave. 

While I am away from Once Upon A Costume no one has my permission to sell under my name or use my specific designs. I have not decided when I will reopen as I am going to have a huge adjustment getting used to having a baby again, my youngest now is 7. I hope to return to work once the baby is 6 months old, the end of next summer but only time will tell if this is actually going to be realistic.

I am very sorry that I will be unable to help you out with your costumes for now but I need to take care of myself and my family for the next while. I will definitely miss my sewing machine and making all of you look beautiful!!

Thank you for your understanding and I hope be able to sew for all of you again in the future.

The last 3 weeks in reveiw.

This Rapunzel went out today. It was designed closer to the movie dress so I changed the patterned part to just as a panel as opposed to a whole under skirt. The pink stripes on the sleeves are thinner and the lace is on the slip instead of on the actual skirt (which I think is really super cute)

 

This was last week's Rapunzel. It was a pretty straight forward dress but it took a back seat to my life for a few days. It only went out a day late and I always appreciate when client's are understanding about my circumstances.

The Arabian Princess went out 2 weeks ago, it's been busy at my house! I'm still looking around for a fancier fabric to use on this outfit. I'm hoping to find a sequined lace overlay that will work. This Arabian Princess was designed to sit high on the waist to cover the belly button.