Silk Lace Baptismal Gown
Baby, Baptism, childrenswear, Christening, Couture Sewing, customer, Dress, Dresses, Floral, for sale, Lace, Marusya
Anagrassia Baptismal Christening Gown Silk Lace Ivory White Organza Charmeuse Sash Satin Buttons Couture Sewing Handmade Dress Girls Wedding Floral Alencon grey

Pub­lished 03/02/2018 Shop dress here: Silk Lace Chris­ten­ing Gown I made this Chris­ten­ing gown in Jan­u­ary 2017.  I made the gown with ivory silk organ­za, 4 ply silk, and silk charmeuse lin­ing. Lace was hand-sewn to the organza.  I also made a bon­net that matched the gown....

Ivory Silk Christening Gown
Baby, Baptism, childrenswear, Christening, Couture Sewing, customer, for sale, Piccolas Collection, Religious, Silk
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....

Silk Faille Bridesmaid Dresses
Dress, Dresses, Flower Girl, junior bridesmaid, Marusya
Dark Navy Silk Faille Pleated Junior Bridesmaid Dress with suede silk lining, open back, pockets, and emerald green big bow for wedding Bat Mitzvah interlining

A Day in the Life of a Dress­mak­er and Fash­ion Designer Have you ever won­dered what’s behind the vision and con­struc­tion of a beau­ti­ful dress? Hours and hours of labor? Yes. Cre­ative vision? Absolute­ly, but this cre­ativ­i­ty must also be firm­ly ground­ed in basics of tex­tiles and con­struc­tion tech­nique. This is why I am not just a fash­ion design­er. What I see in my head I know how to make...

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...

Pink Lace Crop Top & Long Silk Skirt
Marusya
long silk bridesmaid skirt and pink lace top

Dusty rose pink silk bridesmaid skirt with thick waistband. Handmade with a crop top blush alencon lace top.

Stephanie & Roman’s Ukrainian Wedding
Marusya
Ukrainian, wedding, dress, embroidery, floral, silk, wool, sewing, fabric, lace, merezka, gold, white, ivory, charmeuse, ukraine, full, skirt, blouse, shirt, bridal, bride

All of the pho­tos tak­en on the wed­ding day by Kar­la Korn Pho­tog­ra­phy. www.karlakorn.com ____________ Stephanie showed up with her wed­ding dress still in pieces and none of her embroi­dery fin­ished — or even start­ed. Need­less to say we were both more than just a lit­tle bit stressed with her wed­ding day just two weeks away. We had spent over twelve months plan­ning her dress. We had gone over every­thing: the...