She is leaving me in the lurch (a bit)
In short I am going to a fancy dress party at the weekend with two of my children. I am as going as Arwen from LOTR (found a dress and elf ears on ebay) to complete the look I bought some velvet asked my mum who is better at sewing than I to make it into a cloak and sent her the material a couple of weeks ago. She should have the time as she does not work and she seemed quite taken with the idea and enthused - but for some reason she said she would wait until she had stopped looking after her friends dog before she would start making it.
In the meantime I have sourced and started making two outfits for my kids - Jewel from Rio and Luke Skywalker.
I spoke to Mum on tue and listened symapathetically as she was telling me about her 'friend' who disappered abroad for a fortnight and left Mum looking after her dog (she was meant to be back in a week but was still away). The cloak was not mentioned.
I got a text later saying she was not going to be able to make the cloak and she was going to return the material. I was peeved but I thought I would still be able to fashion something. Today get another text saying 'can I keep the material and try again?' arrrggghhh I have asked her to return the material and I hope it arrives tommorrow. Otherwise I have wasted £25 (material and postage as I sent cash to mum to buy thread and cover postage etc.
She was doing me a favour but I was very clear that she did not have to do it.