High Maintenance Mom

The following items are for sale on Craig's List in Redwood City, CA.

1. Gently used Ralph Lauren blue and white patchwork quilt. King - 108" x 90". We paid $325 for it and it's in the original packaging.

King size Ralph Lauren patchwork quilt

2. Used Vera Wang off-white wedding dress. I bought the dress at a consignment store in Boston for a Feb. 1997 wedding and was told it was a fall 1996 gown. It has now been worn twice and was just cleaned. I am about 5'1" and I wore heels. The original size is an 8 but I recently tried it on and it seems more like a 4 dress size (I'm not sure how wedding dresses are sized). The buttons down the back are real and the design is beautiful. The woman who altered the dress for me removed the Vera Wang tag. I was very upset but planned to save it for my children. I now have two boys so I'm hoping someone else can use it. There was a small tear in the back so the person who altered it for me added a bow to cover it. I felt like a princess at my (our) wedding. Our three year-old saw a picture of me in it and said, "mommy, I didn't know you were a princess?" and just like that, the dress was worth it all over again.

Wedding dress front

Wedding dress back

Close-up wedding dress front

Close-up wedding dress back