Colorful Lace and Tulle Couture Dress

Colorful Flower Girl Dress

Pub­lished 5/10/20219 I had the plea­sure of mak­ing Stel­la’s First Holy Com­mu­nion dress. She is a cousin to one of my very first customers.  Hand Painted Couture Girls Dress: COMMUNION dress style (It’s a full dress with a lace and ray­on upper bodice and satin and tulle low­er skirt.) This dress is part of the HOUSE OF GODFREY COLLECTION  #5284 “Pink” Hand-Paint­ed Bodice (Flo­rals are also paint­ed in green, lime, red,...

Handmade Lace and Silk Wedding Dress

Couture lace silk wedding dress

Pub­lished 08/28/2013 Writ­ten By My Father: A busy sum­mer got busier with the mar­riage of our daugh­ter Katie last Sun­day. It was a beau­ti­ful day with con­tri­bu­tions made by many fam­i­ly and friends, and I would be remiss if I did­n’t acknowl­edge a few that I have not already thanked publicly. The good peo­ple of St. Michael’s Ukrain­ian Catholic Church were extra­or­di­nar­i­ly hos­pitable, and its choir excep­tion­al as they wel­comed...

Flower Girl Dress for Canadian Wedding

Lace tulle flower girl dress

A cou­ple beau­ti­ful pho­tos tak­en by cana­di­an pho­tog­ra­ph­er, Megan Kemshead Pho­tograpy. The wed­ding was in Edmon­ton at the styl­ish and time­less wed­ding venue, Fair­mont Hotel Mac­don­ald. The flower girl is wear­ing the top sell­ing flower girl dress design, which is a lace body­suit and tutu. Lace Flower Girl Dress Details: ~#5320 Ivory Lace Leo­tard with cap and unlined sleeves ~Lace body­suit is ful­ly lined with #6 light nude poly/rayon ~One­sie has...

Ukrainian Vyshyvanka

Ukrainian embroidered linen dresses

Hand Embroidered Ukrainian Shirts and Dresses Pub­lished 20/23/2018 Here are just a few absolute­ly stun­ning pho­tos of my sis­ter’s fam­i­ly photoshoot. Each piece was embroi­dered by my mom. My grand­moth­er sewed the adult vyshy­van­ka dress around 35 years ago and I sewed the girls’ vyshy­van­ka dress­es and the baby’s bap­tismal gown, which my sis­ter stuffed in his pants. The pho­tos were tak­en by Indi­ana pho­tog­ra­ph­er Adi­na Brown-Sel­ner. Her pho­tog­ra­phy busi­ness is called...

Green Plaid Girl’s Dress

green plaid girls dress

(Writ­ten Fall 2018. Post­ed late on the blog.)  Today, we show Ivan­ka in the dark green and orange/red plaid drop waist dress for the Pic­co­las Fron­tier Collection. The girl’s hol­i­day jumper is 100% cotton. There are faux leather but­tons that run down the back and the ver­ti­cal and hor­i­zon­tal stripes match per­fect­ly through­out the pleat­ed dress design. This dress is a great wardrobe piece for fall or winter. Pair it with...