mermaid costume

A custom-made Mermaid Fairy dress

Posted on by Helen Hobden

Like waiting for a bus, I haven’t had a custom order for a while, and then two come at once! The first was an order based on this custom fairy dress for sale. My client wanted mermaid colours of blue and turquoise, with a little sunshine yellow thrown in. This dress fastens with a drawstring at the back of the waist, and corset-style ribbon lacing at the back. There’s a cut-out section on the lower back, which is a very fashionable design right now!

I have to say, I love these colours and this is my favourite fairy dress I’ve made in this style so far! It could be worn as an ocean fairy costume or as a luxury mermaid costume.

Mermaid fairy dress

Custom fairy dress

mermaid dress

I’m very pleased to say that the customer loved her fairy dress and is going to wear it to two weddings this summer! If you would like your own dress made especially for you, please purchase the fairy dress listing, or get in touch at helen@threadsofafairytale.com if you have any questions.

If you’d like to watch the whole process of me making this dress, the full video is on my Patreon page. 

There are also snippets of the sewing throughout the week’s vlog on my YouTube channel.

Changes are afoot! Oshun shops are disappearing.

Posted on by Helen Hobden

 

Mermaid wedding dressThere are a few changes happening! You might have noticed that now all old Oshun shops have been removed from the ‘Shop’ section and there’s only my new ‘Threads of a Fairytale’ shop there now. I’ve been a busy bee and have utilised these horrible rainy windy days by dealing with the admin and swapping over all the items from the old shops and into this main one.

So this means that there are a couple of new sections that can be used to search for specific styles in the Etsy shop. For example, ‘Occasion Wear’ will now have most of the Oshun Occasions clothes. ‘Fairytale and Cosplay’ will have most of the Oshun Costumes clothes, and I’m working on the ‘Custom and made-to-order’ section as I have more examples to show.

If you happen to do an Etsy shop search for OshunCostumes, then my shop will still turn up for the time being because there’s a handful of clothes that don’t quite fit into where I’d like Threads of a Fairytale to be heading. These have been reduced in price, so head over there for some costume bargains!

The closing of Oshun Kids means that those handmade items are currently not online for sale at the moment. I intend to make these available on Threads of a Fairytale’s Facebook page, but won’t have time to do this until after the New Forest Fairy Festival in a couple of weeks (where several often sell anyway!) and possibly not until the end of summer.
The vintage new stock of clothes is all still on Just A Bit Different, but I intend to close this down soon too and sell off all the stock in one go. So let me know if you need alternative clothing stock to open a shop or market stall!

Phew! I think that’s it for now!