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Summer time and the livin' is easy--but sewing the capes is sweaty business. Though a business I am happy to say is up.
This year, my Halloween orders started in July. I am thrilled to have so much quality time with my Industrial Juki 8700 sewing machine.
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billiemelillo on Nov 4, 2022
5 out of 5 starsWhat an incredible costume! Craftsmanship is superb, thank you!
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punkdafiedstar on Oct 29, 2022
5 out of 5 starsIncredible product. Was exactly what I wanted for a Halloween party, and a costume that will stand the test of time!
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Roseanna on Oct 13, 2022
5 out of 5 starsThis is such an awesome cape! The quality is fantastic! I cannot wait to wear this for Halloween!
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Dina on Aug 12, 2022
5 out of 5 starsBeautiful cape! Perfect for my Fairy Godmother costume! Super fast shipping! Arrived 11 days ahead of the anticipated delivery date!
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Kota on Oct 31, 2022
5 out of 5 starsI purchased this costume for Oogie boogie at Disneyland. It’s an amazing quality aside form a few frays here and there but that’s nothing I can’t fix. I might’ve also ordered too large in the waist band.
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Michelle on Oct 29, 2022
5 out of 5 starsThis costume’s quality is amazing! Everyone kept asking where I got it. Im very happy with it. Like others said, the cape is a little heavy (due to the layers) but it will keep you warm while you’re out and you don’t notice is much after a while. Possible improvements??? I would have loved to have pockets in the skirt and that the loops for the hair comb were a little further back on the hood. :)
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cherryblossom1273 on Oct 23, 2022
5 out of 5 starsIt’s AMAZING. And shipping was so fast. The seller is also so nice and helpful.
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Tatiana on Oct 21, 2022
5 out of 5 starsGreat quality. Wore to MNSSHP and received many compliments!
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Sherri on Oct 19, 2022
5 out of 5 starsI can't even begin to say how much I love this costume! I test drove it at a large book festival with hundreds of children and it was a hit! Next stop, Halloween! It's well made and insanely authentic! Get it now! Side note- make sure you know how to measure yourself. I went over with my measurements and the skirt is a tad big but that's my fault.
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Amy on Oct 15, 2022
5 out of 5 starsVery high quality. NOT a thin cheap looking costume. I couldn't be happier with it. Wore it to Disney World and Mickeys Not So Scary Halloween Party this year and was stopped over and over again for photos. Compliments from people all night, including cast members of WDW. Highly recommend this shop and this costume!!
About FairyGodmother4Hire
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The Studio, and my trusty Singer 20U sewing machine, stays up way past midnight and never turns into a pumpkin. -
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I don't have a magic wand, but my sewing machine does quite nicely.
For my daughter's third Christmas I hastily put together a costume cape and skirt. I had over twenty years of professional costume experience, working for some of the best theatres on the east coast. I had made costumes for queens. It seemed only right to make a few little princesses. My theatre career was both blessing and curse because I had the skills and inspiration to do amazing detailed work, but no time to put them to use for my own projects.
Those first pieces weren't up to the grand designs I imagined, but that didn't stop my daughter's friends from fighting over them when they came to play. I had made them easy for small hands to get on over their own clothes, and better yet they could be machine washed after mud puddle battles.
That spring I began creating a line of my own dress up costumes. Every little girl's imagination can make her the princess of her dreams. She doesn't need a movie princess copy to be special.
Eight years ago I exited stage left from the theatre I had worked at for so long and began focusing on Fairy Godmother For Hire. It was time to stop thinking of it as a hobby. My husband made that easier to do when he suggested that if we moved into a bigger house I could stop sewing in the basement.
The house he had his eye on was a 200 year old colonial, quaintly referred to as a 'Fixer Upper' in the real estate listing. It had been unlived in for almost seven years. I agreed to look at it, just to humor him. Of course, we could buy it, I humored him, if we can sell our own house. I didn't tell him, I thought we'd never be able to sell our home. It sold in seven days.
What I didn't expect was that I would fall helplessly in love with the property we have come to call The Bright Side. That's a nod to Jane Austen's pretentious English manors, and Monty Python. We have over 2 acres, plus over a hundred acres of state forrest that surround us. Inside the house, we walk on two hundred year old wood planks where countless generations have tread before. When I'm not sewing there are always home improvement projects. My little princess has gotten very good at removing wallpaper.
I've made many discoveries here, like the original unpainted wood paneling in the dining room, hidden under 2 layers of early drywall and 14 layers of wall paper. And just as importantly, that little girls don't lose their love of dressing up just because they have children or grandchildren of their own. I began making costumes for little girls, but I am happy to make them for bigger girls now, too.
I continue to freelance in theatre, but my commute is now through the kitchen to my studio. That's right, I can say 'Studio' instead of 'Sewing Room' now.
-lisa
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I expected these guys to be able to sew like magic, but so far they haven't done one stitch.
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