Bear saw my “crazy cats” and wanted two made from a couple of shirts that belonged to her late mother. She also sent a picture of her mother with the note that she was a very special lady with a whimsical and loving personality who had been a career nurse...
Bev brought several furs by to have some bears and this pony made. The pony was for her granddaughter who was moving away. Bev wanted her to have something very special to take with her. OMG! The pony is fabulous. How Liane and Olga can envision this is amazing to me....
Susie sent her daughter’s jacket from when she was very little to have a bunny made from it. Her daughter is now an adult and Susie thought this would make a special gift. Hi Liane – Everybody who has seen the rabbit you made me just loves him and I am...
Jane Hanson sent a seal coat to have cats made for her daughters. Seal is particularly difficult to work with so I went with a pattern that worked well with the heavy hide.
Wendy Flis sent her mother’s mouton coat. She wanted a pony and a dog made from it. The mouton all but destroyed my hands for a few days, but I was really pleased with how the two animals came out.
Jamie sent her wedding dress to have a unisex outfit made. Her gown was made of a very heavy satin with beautiful lace work all over it. It also had a long string of buttons down the back all the way down the train. We ended up using the lining material for the...
Jody sent her wedding dress from 1984 and a first communion dress to have outfits made for her grand children. We were able to get a lovely ensemble with a princess style gown and a romper with faux vest. The outfits were accessorized with bonnet and cap as...
Colleen wanted to get as much from her wedding dress as possible. When you only have one, sometimes it makes sense to think about the future. We made her future grandchildren a unisex gown with a ceremonial robe. That allows her family to use the outfit for any...
Elizabeth O’Connor sent us her wedding dress and her late mother’s wedding dress and asked us to combine the materials from both gowns into an heirloom unisex gown and robe combination. The color differences between the two gowns were pretty big so...
Julia Frei wanted a complete ensemble for her godson from her wedding dress. We used every bit of fabric we could to get a bishop style gown with a ceremonial robe, a bit, booties, bonnet and bow tie pin. We put pleats down the front of the gown and used the...
Vicki sent her daughter’s wedding dress to have an outfit made for her granddaughter’s baptism. The dress was covered in beautiful lace and bead work. Vicki wanted an outfit that could be worn by either a boy or a girl so we suggested a unisex gown with a...
Mary sent her wedding dress from the 1960s to have a christening outfit made for her new granddaughter and any future grandsons. The dress was made of a quality Gaberdine with silk lining and had a relatively straight skirt. To get two outfits from it, we needed to...
Diane sent her wedding dress to have christening outfits made for future grandchildren. She loved the lace from her dress and the pleated organza so we used as much of it as we could. I absolutely loved the outfits when I saw them. The boys outfit was made with not...
Donna Johnson sent her wedding dress in to have christening outfits made forher grandchild and future grandchildren. She also asked us to make a ring pillow for her daughter’s future wedding. The gown was from the 1970s and had some lovely floral...
Carla’s wedding dress was covered in beautiful lace with beads througout. We chose to use the lace as the overskirt to the christening gown but we ended up using the lining material for the underskirt instead of the heavier satin that the WD used. This...
Maro sent her wedding dress to have made into a gown for her daughter and romper for future children and grandchildren. Her dress had lovely bead work all over the bodice so we captured a piece of it to put on the high waist line and on the front hem of the...
Sara sent her lovely wedding dress to have us make a Christening gown, romper and headband combo. Her WD was covered in lace roses. However, the roses, heavy satin and heavy beadwork meant that we really couldn’t go with a dramatic length on the gown...
Michaela had us make both a gown and a romper from her wedding dress. The romper will be worn by her son and the gown will be put away for future daughters and grandddaughters.
Katharine Koenig sent her wedding dress to have outfits made. Her dress had some elegant thread work that we tried to use in the waist of the gown and on the faux vest of the romper
Allison Kirschke sent her wedding dress to have outfits made for her coming first born and any future children. We used the lovely WD overlay fabric in both the gown and the romper.
Whitney sent her wedding dress wanting both a romper and a gown because she didn’t yet know whether she was having a boy or a girl. Her gown was made of an organza and lace overlay with a polyester slip skirt. We decided to make an empire waist dress that...
Pat sent her wedding gown to have outfits made for her future grandchildren. Although some of the lace from her dress had colored a bit with age, that just added a lovely character to the overall outfits.
Renee sent her gown from 1973 to have outfits made for her future grandchildren. The lovely organza overlay from the dress worked well for an overlay on the blessings gown. We were able to use some of the lace from the WD bodice for both the bodice of the gown...
Terri wanted a shorter gown since her daughter was already mobile. Her wedding dress offered some lovely lace to work with and the lighter weight fabric worked well for a romper with pin pleats. Liane….Just wanted you to know that the baptism outfits...
Marsha wanted a quality heirloom christening outfit for her grandson. She did not send a wedding dress, instead we made this romper, hat and booties outfit using some of our own quality materials. We have a lovely selection of fabrics and laces to make quality...
Chelsey sent the remnants of her wedding dress. She had already had a blessing gown made for her daughter and needed an outfit for her son. The remnants were pretty plain with the exception of a very small piece that had some beading on it. We suggested the...
Jessica sent her mother’s wedding dress to have a romper made for her son. Her mother’s dress had some lovely embroidery work but the thread had rusted with age. we decided to use the embroidery work on the faux vest and it really added an heirloom...
Deirdre Smith-Ferraro sent her wedding dress to have a christening romper made for her son. Her dress had some lovely bead work and we really wanted to use it so we applied it to the faux vest. We also added just a little bit of satin on the collar, sleeve...
Octavia sent me her quincenera dress to have christening outfits made for her children and future grandchildren. It was a lovely, soft satin gown with inset lace.
Amanda sent her wedding dress to have a romper made for her son. The romper came out beautifully, but this was one of the few times when fit was a problem. When she received it, it was simply too big for her little man. She sent it back to me and I was able to...
Bernadette sent me her wedding gown to have a romper made for her first grandson as well as a kerchief for her daugther’s coming wedding. Her gown had some beautiful older lace that had colored with age. We decided to use that on the faux vest of the...
Adria’s wedding dress was short and the only real ornamentation to it was a thin belt at the waist. She wanted a romper for the son she is expecting by the end of the year. It was especially important to her to use her wedding dress for this romper because her...
Kristen sent the train from her wedding dress to have a romper made for her son. The train had some beautiful embroidery and bead work on it so we used some of that on the faux vest to make a formal little man suit. This was a situation where the outfit initially...
Kelly Buckley sent her wedding dress to have a custom romper made for her son’s christening. As the mother of sons myself, I know how hard it can be to find custom infant clothing for boys. In this case, we incorporated some fo the lovely embroidery work from...
Betty Zita sent her wedding dress to have a romper made. We also added a jacket as a way to use some of the lovely beadwork from her wedding dress. A bow tie pin was the final touch to this ensemble.
Sarah sent me her mother’s dress to have a unisex gown made from it. It was a pretty off-white with a hint of peach and had a lace bolero. We used the lace for the collar and added an embroidered cross
Kelly sent her wedding dress to have a unisex gown made for her youngest son to wear. There was such lovely embroidery and bead work that we simply had to work some of it into the collar and the front bottom of the gown. Liane,Got the outfit!! Love it! Brings back...
Tina Bast sent her wedding dress to have a christening outfit made for her first grandson and any future grandchildren. We made our “Bishop” style gown. That allowed us to inset just a bit of the lace from the original WD. We also made matching booties, a...
Donna’s wedding dress had some beautiful lace work on the bodice. She wanted a unisex gown for her new grandson to wear and also two bonnets for possible future use. I kept the unisex gown plain at the top but couldn’t resist using the lace work at the...
Val Shalbrack sent her wedding dress to have this heirloom gown and bonnet set made for her family.
Leslie Diorio sent part of her wedding dress to have a unisex gown and bonnet made. Her 100% silk dress had a long string of buttons that we incorporated into the christening gown.
Megan Wells sent her wedding dress to have a unisex baptism gown made. Her wedding dress had folded chiffon panels overlaying all the way down the dress. We decided to incorporate a couple of those panels. She also had a crystal beaded belt. We used the beads to hand...
Linda sent her wedding dress to have a unisex gown made. She wanted to use some of the beadwork from the WD as well and we embroidered a cross in the same silver thread of the embroidered bead work seen on the hem of the gown.
Katrina sent her wedding dress to have this baptism gown made for her daughter–complete with booties. Getting a small gown like this to gather right presents an interesting challenge. We originally wanted to make two layers of gathers, but that made the...
Janet’s dress was very elegant and covered in lace and beautiful beadwork. She wanted a baptism gown for her daughter that was “girly”. I used my princess style. That allowed me to create the basic skirt from the lighter-weight lining fabric...
Tanya Gresham sent her wedding dress so we could create this princess style gown with matching booties and headband for her daughter.
Casey sent her mother’s wedding dress to have a gown made for her daughter. the wedding dress had beautiful embroidery all along the hem and train. We tried to capture as much of the embroidery as we could in a princess style gown.
Lisa Adams asked us to combine her wedding dress and her daughter’s wedding dress for an outfit for her first granddaughter. We love combining multiple generations into one outfit. Sometimes it is a challenge to figure out how to get the different fabrics...
Julia Dennis sent her late aunt’s wedding dress to have a christening dress made for her daughter. Her daughter was going to be 17 months old at the time of the baptism so we made the dress short enough to be able to walk in. Julia wrote us saying: “Just...
Jenny Darr sent her wedding dress to have a baptism gown and boy’s vest made for her soon-coming grandchild and future grandchildren. The full ensemble included the girl’s gown, boy’s vest, girl’s headband, bowtie pin, booties and a...
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