The NEW Bergé (Flower Girl) Dress
Marusya
Flower girl dress lace embroidery bubble

Here are some pho­tos of the new Bergé Dress. (Some pho­tos show the ear­ly skirt sam­ples- with no embroi­dery and dif­fer­ent fabrics.) Ukrain­ian East­er eggs, Impe­r­i­al Fabergé eggs and Beranger, a musi­cian who I worked with while I final­ized the dress design, inspired the design and name, Bergé. This design is for the fun and chic girls!  There’s a sep­a­rate pet­ti­coat to wear under the skirt- for a fuller/bubble appear­ance. (Gigi is not wear­ing the pet­ti­coat in the b/w...

The Calling of the Artist
Marusya
Ukrainian Seamstress Tailor Mary Grace Godfrey

The best things in life uplift us. I am not talk­ing about ele­va­tors when we need to get to the top floor, (although that is nice). Rather I am talk­ing about lift­ing our spir­its as we go about our day-to-day activ­i­ties. This is the role of the artist, who “give us enthu­si­asm to do our work” as St. John Paul II said in his famous Let­ter to Artists. Beau­ty speaks...

Anagrassia (Dress Up) Tea Party
Marusya
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Before my nieces sep­a­rat­ed for the sum­mer, my sis­ters and I decid­ed it would be fun to have the girls dress up in Ana­gras­sia (Over­stock Shop) flower girl lace leotards/bodysuits and tulle skirts and have a tea party. The girls enjoyed Babcha’s sprin­kled cup­cakes, Bam­ber’s Mar­ket cook­ies, and milk. Because of the Pan­do­ra (French Cafe) music play­ing in the back­ground, it was near­ly impos­si­ble to keep one of my nieces from get­ting up...

Ukrainian Boys Baptismal Embroidered Gown
Marusya

Ukrain­ian embroi­dered white linen boys bap­tismal gowns inspired by the gowns my babcha cre­at­ed (many years ago) and cas­socks worn by priests. The gown is lined with white silk charmeuse. Before the hand­made thread ties Pin­tucks One of the gowns was made with a lighter weight linen ____________________ One of the gowns cre­at­ed by my babcha many years ago...

Alencon Lace Leotard Flower Girl Dress
Dress, Dresses, Flower Girl, for sale, Marusya, New York City, Wedding
lace bodysuit flower girl dress

Style #5320 Lace Leo­tard is back in stock!  Here are pho­tos of the new #5320 IVORY lace with (new) GOLD lin­ing with CHAMPAGNE TONED tiered tulle skirt with IVORY sash. This dress was made for a NYC (Jay Fund) char­i­ty auc­tion in Octo­ber. A fam­i­ly friend was so kind to mod­el the dress for me, so the leo­tard is slight­ly loose on her. (Thank you “K” for mod­el­ing!!!)  If you’re inter­est­ed in the...

SHOP the BANDED ADULT TUNIC (Ochre & Ivory)
Marusya
deep gold ochre green tunic cape blouse

Shop new tunics on web­site here or on Etsy I’m very excit­ed to announce the release of my first ADULT man­u­fac­tured product! This tunic design is a com­bi­na­tion of every­thing I desire in a tunic: ochre and/or ivory col­ors, cov­ers the back hips and butt, boat neck­line, fit­ted ¾ sleeves, tighter around the shoul­ders, not trans­par­ent, heav­ier in weight, and does not look like a mater­ni­ty top. There are 2 lay­ers of...