Hello everyone! I just wanted to wish you all Season’s Greetings! I hope you have a wonderful time 🙂
oshun creations
Super full moon flash sale!
Supermoon Flash Sale! 20% off everything in OshunCreations tonight and tomorrow only! Use the code ‘Supermoon15’ at the checkout.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/OshunCreations
New Forest Fairy Festival 2015 + holiday dates
Hello everyone and welcome to Oshun if you’ve just found me from the New Forest Fairy Festival. I had an awesome weekend in Burley – it’s such a beautiful part of England – I love going to the New Forest. It’s even better when surrounded by beautiful creative people and a sprinkling of fairy dust! I met so many wonderful fairies and it was lovely seeing Holly – who did an amazing job organising the event – walking about on Sunday in her new sparkly mermaid dress bought at my stall 🙂 Photos of the festival will be on my Facebook page when I get back from holiday….
which will be for 2 weeks, so my shops will be closed from Friday 21st August till 4th September. Apologies for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience. Right, I’m now off to unpack the stock from my campervan and clean like mad because my parents are house/dog sitting for us!
New Year, new plans!
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!
Writing again.
There aren’t going to be many (if any) new items added to the shop this month because I have signed up to National November Writing Month (otherwise known as NaNoWriMo). If you haven’t heard of it, the idea is to write the first draft of a 50,000 word novel in 30 days.
Several years ago I had a teenage novel published by Andersen Press (a subsidiary of Random House) called Be In The Place. They also said they were going to publish my next 2 novels, but when they changed their mind, that’s when I decided to focus on Oshun. However I came up with a plot idea over the summer and have been thinking about spending more time writing again. (I write short stories and poems with my village writers’ group too.) NaNoWriMo was the impetus to get on with it. So as Summer was busy with festivals and Autumn busy with Halloween costumes, now is a quiet time for Oshun anyway. I have lots of ideas for wedding dresses and clothing I can’t wait to get started on though, but probably not until after Christmas now. In the mean-time, keep a look out on Oshun’s facebook page as I’m going to be offering discount codes for flash sales over the next couple of months!
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.