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...

The Calling of the Artist

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

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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...

Alencon Lace Leotard Flower Girl Dress

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...