Hey are you beautiful people and welcome to the Glorious and the mundane

podcast I'm your host Christi Nocles for those of you listening in real time

I pray that you are having a beautiful holy week.

It is so hard for me to believe that Easter is upon us but I'm so glad it's here but it just

makes me want time to stand still next to Christmas.

This is my very favorite time of year.

Maybe because it was my sweet mama's favorite time of year. I know I've told you this before but she

used to sew an Easter dress for me every year. This is partly because we lived on a

pastor's salary and we couldn't always afford the dresses that I was drawn to.

I always wanted something different and maybe a little fancier than our local J.C.

pennies had to offer.

So my mom and I would always have so much fun going to our local fabric store.

It was called Hancock's in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

And we'd spend time looking through the huge lookbooks to find the

dress I wanted.

And then once I found the dress, we would go over to these huge metal drawers that pulled out of the wall and this is where you could look up the number you found in the lookbook and that would lead you to that dresses pattern.

That pattern was the

the the outside of the envelope or pattern

would give you the 4-1-1 on the kind of fabric that's recommended for that particular dress

and then of course that was the best part. The hunt for the most beautiful fabric we could find. For me, no surprise. It was almost always some kind of floral. But my mom would give herself several

weeks to be able to finish the dress and I'd have a couple of fittings here and there, you know, like

sneak peek. But the Saturday before was always the big day where I finally

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