Halloween costumes and postal strikes!

Hi! Have you got your Halloween costume ideas in place yet? I’m just reminding you that I have several unique items of clothing that would make the perfect sustainable Halloween costume! Please browse the Fairytale shop for ideas. You could find a classic witch costume, a spooky fairy outfit, a zombie Snow White costume or even find a pretty adult pumpkin costume!

However, time has already run out for overseas orders, so please only buy for Halloween 2022 if you’re in the UK. Don’t forget there are postal workers’ strikes happening on the 20th and 25th October, so please allow for this when expecting your delivery. I post second class recorded, so please place your order by Friday 21st October to allow for delays.

Thank you!

Exciting news – children’s clothes are back for sale online + their shop has a new name!

Halloween pumpkin fairy costume

Hello everyone – I hope you’re having a lovely day! As you may know if you’ve been following me for a while, I’ve been phasing out my old Oshun Etsy shops and continuing with just the one, now called Threads Of A Fairytale. Although my handmade children’s clothes and fairy costumes sell well at festivals, they don’t seem to sell well online, so I decided to let that shop die out. (I may eventually have them available on facebook, but as you can imagine, the task of uploading photos and details of nearly fifty items is quite a daunting one!) Anyway, Etsy have just offered me some free listings, so with nothing to lose, I decided to re-list everything that was already sitting in my ‘expired listings’ folder. If you don’t sell on Etsy, you probably won’t know this, but a listing expires after three months and then the seller has to pay again to re-list it. So for that reason, after three months it is likely the children’s clothes will all disappear again. (I don’t want to say they will definitely disappear just in case a celebrity buys one for their daughter or something and all of a sudden they become really popular!) So now is your chance to buy a handmade child’s dress from me for a limited time only. By the way, the fairy dresses make lovely Christmas presents!

Oh I nearly forgot to tell you the new name! It’s Children Of A Fairytale. I love the name so much, I’m half tempted to start making children’s clothes again!

I will be sending out a discount code for the Children Of A Fairytale Etsy shop with my next newsletter which I will send out in a couple of days. If you’d like to receive that, please sign up with the link in the black box below!

Back to work

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