A woman of mysteries!

On my Wednesday blog I mentioned I was making a mermaid costume and several kind souls showed interest and asked to see a pic. (I think they thought I would be daft enough to do the full monty mermaid!) Well, now that I know that it has arrived safely with its customer, I thought I should show you what it looks like and tell you the tale.

So...............

Voila!

The tale of the tail goes like this.

A blogging friend has a photographer husband who needed a mermaid outfit for a photo shoot. It is obviously, not something that can be easily purchased, so I volunteered to design and make one.

I had a lovely piece of silvery pink lycra-type fabric in my stash so I set too and cut out a brown paper pattern. After lots of emails to check size of fin and measurements for the fishy shape, I got to work and cut it out. It went together beautifully. Both Wipso and I think we get a little "divine" intervention at times! After all, I had never made anything like it before and yet somehow I seem to know how to do it.

I finished the costume and wanted to be sure it "worked".

I popped upstairs, slipped off my jeans, and pulled the tail on.

Now, I was still wearing an open blouse over my black jumper
I called hubby and asked if he would take a snap of the mermaid tail.

As he came through the door, I said "Hang on, I will take my top off!"

The look on his face said it all!!!

I meant that I would take the open blouse off, leaving the black jumper.

He thought he was going to get the full mermaid treatment!!!!

(Well that's men for you!!)

Hope you think it was worth all my designing and thinking time - oh and then a couple of hours sewing time too!

The other "reveal" of the day is the little picture that was hidden on Wednesday beneath my little dumfed landscapes. It has now been mounted and posted so I think I can show and tell now.

On Tuesday evening, Wipso and I had a girlie night, as the men went to footie.

We both dumfed - Annie revitalised Paula's little bear ( Do visit Paula's blog to see the result!)

I decided I would try to dumf a puffin. (Sounds weird but you know what I mean.)

Wipso found an online puffin picture for reference and, as we sat writing our little Ode for Paula, I dumfed away at my little puffin!!

This is what it looks like now its mounted ready to go.

What do you think? Its the first time I have dumfed a bird.

Might try another - any suggestions? lol

Lastly, on one of my blog hops I found this lovely card by Sue

She kindly said I could show the sentiment on here.

It seemed quite fitting considering how Wipso spends her time!

Thanks for dropping in - I will be sharing a special cake with you next time.