festival fashion

Making Fairy Festival outfits for Glastonbury

Posted on by Helen Hobden

I had such grand plans for the outfits I was going to make for this year’s Glastonbury Festival! However, as in usual Helen style, I left it to the last minute and didn’t quite have the time to make five amazing fairytale dresses for each day of the festival! However I did have time to make myself a navy blue fairy outfit. I upcycled a linen pair of trousers to create the skirt, and used the material left over, plus some scraps (mainly in silk satin) to make a matching top. I love the outfit, and it’s really comfortable too.

I also made myself a purple silk fairy skirt; again by upcycling a pair of Indian Salwar trousers. There is plenty of fabric for twirling, and of course there are my usual Threads of a Fairytale style tattered frills!

By the way, I had an amazing time at Glastonbury Festival. The weather was pretty much perfect and everyone was in a really happy mood so it was a lovely atmosphere. I also always feel inspired to create more clothes after the festival – I love people-watching and seeing what outfits everyone is wearing!

If you’d like to watch some of the process of making the festival clothing, here’s my YouTube video. (There’s also a Glastonbury Festival vlog for every day of the festival on my channel!)

Making a tropical jungle bohemian fairy dress!

Posted on by Helen Hobden

Hello! I hope you all had a lovely sunny Easter weekend. I spent it mostly in the garden, but also took a drive to Avebury stone circle when the sun was getting low in the sky and birds all around us were singing very loudly – it was quite magical!

Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that I’ve uploaded a new video to my YouTube channel showing how I made a bohemian fairy dress using tropical leaf print fabric along with Indian cotton and silk chiffon. This dress isn’t in the Threads of a Fairytale Etsy shop yet as I haven’t had chance to do a photo-shoot with my daughter, but I’ll let you know when the listing goes up. 🙂

Have a lovely short week!

Time for a little break!

Posted on by Helen Hobden

Hello everyone! I’m absolutely exhausted after the wonderful New Forest Fairy Festival last week, and now I’m taking a break for a few days so the shop will be closed. I’ll catch up with any queries and re-open on the 1st September with renewed energy for making lots of new dresses!

In the mean time, if you’d like to take a behind-the-scenes look at having a stall at the New Forest Fairy Festival, here’s a little video I made of the weekend:

Holiday & Festival dates

Posted on by Helen Hobden

I’m just about recovered from an exhausting Glastonbury Festival, but now I’m  giving you advanced notice that all Oshun shops (and wickedfaeriegifts) will be closed from the evening of 4th of July until 28th of July. Not long after that, from 13th – 14th August, all my stock will be coming with me to the New Forest Fairy Festival, so if you’ve had your eye on anything, now’s the time to get it!

New Year, new plans!

Posted on by Helen Hobden

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all have a magical and fun-filled 2015. I’ve been busy getting the accounts done for the year (yawn) and also planning which festivals to bring Oshun’s traveling boutique to (yay). My plans for the year are to begin with making some accessories and jewellery for the fairs and festivals; and then I’ve been designing a collection which I hope to bring to a selection of shops across the country. If I have time on top of that I’ll continue my experiments with natural printing and dyeing and make some wedding gowns using some of the antique fabric I’ve been collecting. Exciting and busy times ahead!