After the frantic business of running summer festival stalls, it was really good to have a holiday last week visiting different beautiful places in Italy and Dubrovnik in Croatia. I had such a wonderful time, but now it’s back to work. I feel like I haven’t sat at my sewing machine for ages! I have 2 Khaleesi costumes to make (I actually visited some of the places Game of Thrones was filmed – so cool!) and 2 custom orders. It’s going to be busy busy busy now until Halloween, so if you’d like me to make something especially for you, please get in touch soon. Either e-mail me at helen@oshun.co.uk or through a ‘convo’ on Etsy at www.OshunCreations.etsy.com
Helen Hobden
The New Forest Fairy Festival
Oh dear – I was so busy getting ready, I forgot to tell you about this festival in advance! Well, I’ve just returned and we had a great time and met lots of wonderful fairies. I even received a lovely note hidden on my table and delivered by faerie post! I’ll add pictures to Oshun’s facebook page as soon as I get chance.
The Farm Festival, Somerset.
The landrover is almost packed and tomorrow I’m off to Gilcombe Farm near Bruton in Somerset for Farm festival. I’m really looking forward to it and my pitch is bigger than usual so I’m taking everything I can fit in the car! I’m a bit worried about the weather forecast though.
I’ll be closing my Etsy shop for a few days, but I’ll be back on Monday.
Oshun dress in the Wells Journal
The Wells Journal website featured my book dress in an article about the Bookbarn fashion show this week. There’s a great photo of Rain wearing the paper dress and it links to my blog post about it too!
Book barn fashion show update.
Friday night was lots of fun and even though Rain was nervous, she did brilliantly on the catwalk and my dress of books had loads of attention. The staff at Bookbarn were lovely and she wants to work there now! Anyway, I’m very chuffed (do people still say ‘chuffed?) to say that I won a fabulous book about wearable art full of lots of inspiring ideas for costumes.
The paper dress is now for sale here.
The bookbarn out-of-print fashion show
An out-of-print fashion show has been organised by the Bookbarn, near Bristol in England and I decided to take part and made a paper dress inspired by fairytales. I was given a stack of old unwanted books and told to be as creative as possible. The dress incorporates lots of different papercraft techniques and I decorated the corset with lots of layered and twisted flowers, and the skirt has many folded pages making a bustle and train.
It is just a bit of fun combining my love of books and unique fashion. I usually upcycle luxury fabrics, but I thought I’d enjoy the challenge of paper instead. The photo on the right shows my daughter, Rain modelling the dress with Maisie Williams (Arya Stark in Game of Thrones) who will be judging the fashion show on Friday. There are more photos on Oshun’s facebook page and I have also written all about it on my alternative fashion blog. The dress is for sale in my shop in the ‘Fairytales’ section.
Welcome!
Hello! Welcome to my fabulous new website! I’m so excited to have this live. I’ll update Oshun news regularly and from here you can get to all my social media places and have a good look around the handmade clothing for sale in my shop. I’m currently working on a princess gown made of old books for the Bookbarn International fashion show, and getting stock ready for summer festivals; but I’ll tell you more about all that later. Thank you for visiting 🙂