I’m starting a new thing, which I hope to remember to do every week on Thursday. I’ll pick an item in one of my shops and give it a thirty percent discount for that day only. I’m kicking off with this pure silk blue fairy outfit at Oshun Creations, perfect for the festival season ahead. Please follow me on Facebook or Twitter for updates every week.
Hello everyone! I just wanted to wish you all Season’s Greetings! I hope you have a wonderful time 🙂
I’m so excited to tell you that Oshun Creations has been featured in FAE Magazine. This spring issue is in honour of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and they have included my blue Alice dress with the Edwardian apron modelled beautifully by my daughter, Rain.
The dress can be bought here.
I’m very new to Instagram and still getting the hang of it, but if you’d like to follow me on there I’ll be taking pictures of the process of making the clothes along with general goings on around me!
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!
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
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 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.
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!
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.