On Sunday our friends the Kolliparas came for church, and afterwards we hung out here with the Pesters. (Stephannie brought all the food!) Ian – their oldest son – brought along ‘Vesty’ and told me how he took him to school along with the little book, “The Story of Vesty”. (Brad, you’ll appreciate this, because I vaguely remember making Vesty, and have no recollection of making the book.)
Vesty is a little stuffed creature made from the red vest that Lloyd wore in Samith and Stephannie’s wedding. The groomsmen got to keep the vests, which were sewn for them by…..? I forget. When Ian was born, I thought it would be sweet to make a teddy bear from it. Yeah – did I mention that I don’t sew very well? Vesty came out looking a little like the Quizno’s Subs guy, but Ian loves him anyway. How sweet!
Brad says
Yeow! Ian is getting big.
What is the story of Vesty? That he’s a monster created by a mad scientist out of groomsman body parts?
“Fire… bad… Aauugh…”
Lauren says
You really expect me to remember the story? Well, I guess since I saw it on Sunday some details might be in my head. It was in rhyme, with some digital pictures, and it was something about a vest. Does that help?
Beth says
I think everyone should have a strange stuffed creature made of some wedding material…it’s almost like those bridesmaid dresses would become useful for something…
(On a side note, I have boxed up every bridesmaid dress I’ve worn and sent it back to the bride and told her to put it with her dress for a 50th anniversary display…one more way to rid my house of clutter.)
Kristi says
Did you seriously do this? I had grand dreams of shortening my one and only bridesmaid dress, to make a cute summer dress. Alas, it never happened. It still hangs in its dry-cleaning bag, never worn again. Maybe I should send it to my friend, too.
Beth says
I really did! And as a bonus when I got married I received two bridesmaid dresses back that I store with my wedding dress. It’s a nice keepsake, really.
Michele says
With four brothers, a best friend, and a close cousin, I have TOO many of those bridesmaid dresses (2 red, 1 royal blue, 1 cranberry, 1 teal, a black dress with a white jacket, and I forget the other one.) They remind me of how skinny I was before three kids -- I guess that’s why I keep them. BUT I would love to get rid of the one I wore for my brother John’s wedding -- I was pregnant with my third and feeling like a beached whale. My mother had to custom-make mine. Of course now with my brother gone, maybe I should make special “Vesty” creatures for his four kids. Yeah right! I’ll do that right after I read a whole book -- ha! I like Beth’s idea better!
Stephannie says
I can tell you who made the vests -- I DID! I sewed each and every vest all by myself for our wedding. I tried to do ties as well, but I just gave up on those….
Lauren says
You are like Vera Wang to me, then! I can only sew straight things, like a very basic curtain. Vests have lots of curves!!!!