Silk Lace Bridal Blouse

silk lace bridal blouse

Pub­lished 06/18/2014 One of the ben­e­fits of sell­ing on the web is reach­ing peo­ple worldwide! I was recent­ly con­tact­ed by a bride in Aus­tralia about mak­ing flower girl dress­es for her July (win­ter) wed­ding. Instead of a Chan­til­ly lace for the leo­tards, she chose the alen­con lace I had in stock. As beau­ti­ful as the lace was, I had nev­er used the lace and was appre­hen­sive about cut­ting and design­ing...

Ivory Silk Christening Gown

Anagrassia Baptismal Christening Gown Silk Lace Ivory White Organza Charmeuse Sash Satin Buttons Couture Sewing Handmade Dress Girls Wedding Floral Alencon grey

Pub­lished 03/03/2018 Shop the gown here: Silk Bap­tismal Gown I made this gown at the last moment for my friend’s lit­tle girl, M.  I used ivory silk chif­fon, dia­mond white silk charmeuse, and white guipure lace. (I would’ve dyed the lace, but the lace stands out when the lin­ing is a dif­fer­ent shade.)  I chose this guipure lace from my stock because it looked the most Nordic and M’s ances­tors are from Sweden....

Dreaming Florals: Past, Present & Future

floral silk dress woman

Pub­lished 2/12/2014 I admit I am slight­ly obsessed with flo­ral prints. This may seem strange, since I rarely wear prints or colors. If you were to peek into my clos­et, you’d find neu­tral cloth­ing with small splash­es of col­or­ful flo­ral print­ed gar­ments! You might think­ing to your­self, “How come she wears col­or­ful flo­ral prints and not wear oth­er prints or sol­id col­ors?” Well, I think it’s because of my Ukrain­ian mother! I...

Baby Shower Gift: 12 Vests for Each Month of the First Year

baby shower gift idea vests

Pub­lished 07/06/2014 Can you remem­ber a child­hood fash­ion mis­take? Not that it was a real mis­take, because you did mean to wear it. But rather some­thing so bad­ly put togeth­er you wish your moth­er would have stopped you before you got out the door.  I can cer­tain­ly remem­ber mine — and my sis­ter Tess’. My sis­ter real­ly liked to wear vests. There was a peri­od of time when she would always...

Lace Bridal Leotards & Bodysuits for Adults

alencon lace bodysuit

*~The lace leo­tards are cus­tom made and will fit the cus­tomer bet­ter than the sam­ple leo­tards pic­tured on mod­els seen in most blog photos~* _____________________________ If you are inter­est­ed in pur­chas­ing a cus­tom made (& hand­made) adult bridal leotard/bodysuit, please con­tact me (Mary Grace0 via email or con­tact form for the cur­rent cat­a­log and order form. I’m cur­rent­ly only accept­ing orders via Pay­pal invoicing. (Etsy shop is tem­porar­i­ly closed until December.) __________ R E...

Retro Dress

Floral strapless beige bolero easter dress marusya

Buy Dress Pat­tern here Spaghet­ti Strap Par­ty Dress East­er Dress 2014: Mad Men, Retro & Babcha Inspired Pub­lished 03/16/2014  A Few Notes About the Video Before I begin shar­ing my project, I want say thank you to my old friend from Notre Dame friend, Pat McKillen. He gave me per­mis­sion to use his song Found for my video. Even though it’s one of his old­er songs, it’s still one of my favorites as...