It’s a wonderful little festival in the witchy town of Burley in the heart of the New Forest, Hampshire. If you’re facing the main stage, my stall is going to be the second to the right of the stage. Do come and say hello if you’re going to be there this weekend. I’m nearly packed! It’s the only festival I’m doing this year, so I hope it’s going to be a sunny one!
If you’d like to know a bit more about some of the other exhibitors, I’ve been interviewing them for my blog, here.
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.
Have you seen Beyonce’s video album, Lemonade? She wears a beautiful yellow dress inspired by the goddess Oshun, and I’ve been inspired to make my own! If you’d like to read a bit more about how I chose Oshun to be the name of my clothing brand; and how I made this particular dress, then please take a look at my blog post all about it!
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
I had a brilliant time at the Glastonbury Medieval Fayre over Easter weekend. I’ve made an album on Oshun’s Facebook page of all the pictures I took – some of my stall, some of the re-enactments going on and some of the stunning abbey taken after the crowds had gone home.
There’s a 20% off sale in the OshunCreations shop at the moment for everything over £10. Use the code ‘Ostara15’ at the checkout! Offer lasts till Monday.
SALE time! To celebrate Imbolc and the first signs of spring, I’m offering 30% off everything over £10 in my shop, OshunCreations. Only for the 2nd February so don’t miss it! To get the code you need to quote at the checkout, please go to www.facebook.com/OshunCreations
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 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.
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.