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My mother informed me last night that she wants to give me her wedding dress. Not so that I can someday wear it too (gag) or anything like that, but so that I can chop it up and make things out of it. But... I'm a bit scared. No, actually, I'm a lot scared. I know that it isn't a big deal to her, and it's not really a big deal to me (my parents have been divorced since I was three, so it's not like any of us consider the dress sacred or anything), but it's just the thought of chopping up something that is so expensive that terrifies me. I have all of these wonderful ideas for making purses and other fabulous little things out of it, but I'm just so afraid to mess it up! How the heck can I get past this? I know that once I make the first cut into it it won't be such a big deal anymore, but I really am going to feel like I'm destroying something important. I need fabric therapy or something.