Feisanne

Jaisie's new dress

2011-06-16T20:01:00.001+01:00

Rhiannon's Dress 2011

2011-06-06T01:49:00.003+01:00

Photos courtesy of feispix. Taken at the Worlds in Dublin, April 2011.

Bodice made in green silk, with gold holo sequin applique. Ruffle/rara skirt in sequin net and gold/cream tartan taffeta.

Rhiannon's new dress

2009-07-25T17:42:00.003+01:00

Made in the same jewel toned velvet as her last dress. Puff ball skirt made of lace over satin. Will post better pics when I get them

Trixi's Dress

2009-01-28T23:50:00.002Z

Georgia's Dress

2009-01-28T23:43:00.001Z

Another Dress

2009-01-28T23:12:00.001Z

Rachel's Dress

2009-01-28T22:59:00.000Z

Laura's Dress

2009-01-28T22:24:00.003Z

Made with red falling rain satin, white open worked lace and red and white broiderie anglaise.

Neesha's Dress

2008-10-14T00:51:00.004+01:00

Neesha dances for the McNamara school near Liverpool UK. After a disaster with the original embroidery we decided to go with a soft skirt option for the dress. She's tiny so it suits her well and is lightweight.

It's a 3 piece dress the bodice zipping up the back from the waist, The skirt also zipping all the way up from hem to waist to make it easy to get dressed and the petticoat is attached to a vest bodice so when the dress is taken off it preserves modesty.

The bodice is navy blue silk velvet lined with white polycotton and embroidered in white. Skirt is white satin with a high sheen and embroidered in navy blue. All finished with crystals.

Close up of bodice and the headband, which is covered in the embroidered tulle and scattered crystals.

The petticoat is made from white tulle embroidered with silver flowers and edged with silver lame.

Theresa's Dress

2008-06-13T00:50:00.003+01:00

Theresa is a senior dancer in NE USA.

^ Middle panel of the dress... fake 5 panel dress

Theresa's dress was finished in time for St Patrick's Day Haven't got any pics of it finished yet. Will post as soon as I have them.

Rhi's 2008 Dress

2008-06-13T00:37:00.003+01:00

Back view.... needs alterations
The petticoat I bought
Ready to dance her light round at the Worlds

Mid slip jig
Headband made by Rhi's own fair hands This is Rhi's latest dress. I will get more pics of it up online soon just thought I'd show I've not been completely useless over the last 6 months :oD

Many thanks to my friend Eileen for crocheting the collar and cuffs.

Off the Rack Design

2007-11-12T19:15:00.000Z

This design is waiting to be made in any size and any colour. I saw it in a jade velvet for the waiscoat and broderie anglaise skirt made in a ra ra fashion and embroidered with a celtic design.
Contrasting tutu, choice of headband, barrell or tiara backing and bloomers included in the price

Price range £600 - £800 depending on size and fabrics.

Contact anne@feisanne.co.uk for further details

New Design for Off the Rack

2007-11-12T18:54:00.000Z

This is a new design waiting to be made for the right person. The black fabric will be velour with tiny silver hologram dots. Slleves and yoke in a peach lace over orange satin. Celtic design and centre of bodice in http://www.whitelodgefabric.com/CTHF1.jpg overlaid on a satin. All over a lettuce edged orange petticoat.

Willing to work with client for a more personal dress.

Choice of headband, barrell or tiara backing and bloomers included in the price

Price range £550 - £650 depending on size (approx 11-14 yrs)

Please email anne@feisanne.co.uk for further details

Vicky's Dress

2007-10-15T15:04:00.001+01:00

Vicky is a senior dancer from my region in NW England. She loves to dance and has many other hobbys too as well as being a busy veterinary nurse and a very clever lady to boot.

Fabrics red satin with overlay of glittered netting, white with mop sequin circles and gold swirl lamé

She wore it for the first time on Saturday. I wasn't there to take any pictures but hopefully she got some and will forward them onto me.

Chrissey's Dress

2007-10-15T14:37:00.000+01:00

Chrissey contacted me some time ago to ask me to make her a dress. We tossed around a few ideas and came up with this design.

And here are the finished pictures. The light is causing a problem on the right of the pics. I will be getting some pictures from Chrissey and her mom when she wears her dress out..... I'll put them up, but for now here's my bad pics :o)

The dress is made from black satin and a fuschia pink with metallic strands. A white lace petticoat and white tutu. Embellished with lots of diamantes to give it that extra sparkle.

Hope the dress brings you luck Chrissey

Hannah's Dress

2007-06-28T18:13:00.000+01:00

Hannah has been waiting for this dress for ever. Between the postal services being a pain in the butt she finally received it today. Hope you like it Hannah as I know it was to be a surprise from your sister. Please send a pic to add to my collection and Good Luck.

The design for the dress was provided by the customer. She also bought all the fabrics, so sorry if you like them I can't help...I have no idea where they were bought apart from Texas lol.

above and below, skirt detail with and without embroidery

Front

Back with simple lace cape.

Bit blurry, but close up of sleeve.

Lining

Headband

Rhiannon's new dress

2007-06-07T16:29:00.000+01:00

This pic is from last Friday evening....I need to do some more work on it yet, but you get the general idea.

Watch this space for updates.

Katie's Dress

2007-05-22T21:13:00.000+01:00

This faux 5 panel dress has been made for Katie, a little girl in the USA. She wanted a blue dress and flowers.

So we looked through various fabrics and decided to use a white fabric with blue flowers, covered in a blue organza with sprinkles of silver glitter.

Other fabric used is a pink chiffon base with circular sequined design. The appliqué is done in silver diamond shape foil. All finished in pink and blue embroidery and pink satin flowers stuck on to give a 3D effect and white satin with silver glitter ruffles.

The lining and bloomers are in a crazy design hologram silver foil on pale blue jersey

and the package is finished off with a padded headband.

MISSING CHILD

2007-05-13T01:58:00.000+01:00

MADELEINE McCANN

went missing from

Praia Da Luz, Portugal

03-05-2007

these pictures show her distinctive right eye

which will help people identify her, should she have had her hair cut and dyed.

Please help in the search for this little girl and pray for her swift return to her family

If you have any information on her whereabouts

contact

CRIMESTOPPERS

0800 555 111

Thankyou for your vigilance

See http://news.sky.com/skynews/home for further information

Lily's Dress

2007-05-01T19:23:00.000+01:00

I made Lily's Dress in 2005 and never managed to get a picture of it. I saw it up for sale at a feis last w/e and grabbed a couple of pictures.

It's made in orange satin with tiny silver hologram sequins. The appliqué is in silver sewn sequin and turquoise holo square.

I made the design in an opened Lily shape to emulate the owners name, she is a very delicate looking child who also does ballet and is training with the Royal Ballet Co. She qualified for the Worlds at her first Oireachtas wearing the dress and it always looked lovely, with great stage presence.

Sarah's Dress

2007-03-27T17:22:00.000+01:00

Sarah is a senior dancer from London. This is her 2nd costume from me....the other is the purple one for sale at the bottom of the right hand column. This was my first attempt at a 4 panelled dress.

We decided to 'upgrade her' hmmm I sound like Beyonce Knowles don't I? Yes, I am a hip n happening mum, and I know all the words, hahaha!

skirt under construction ^
bodice v

She had a design in mind, but we decided together that it wasn't going to work and she liked the design on one of Rhi's old costumes, so we took inspiration from that.

It's also a 2 piece, so Sarah can keep cool between rounds.

These were all the work in progress, am waiting for some finished pics from Sarah, as the one's I took were all at the wrong angle her legs were too white hahaha, she'll kill me for that!
The main red fabric is satin 'falling rain' from http://www.whitelodgefabric.com/falling_rain1.htm and an orange sequinned overlay http://www.whitelodgefabric.com/chiffon_sprayclover_sequin.htm with silver, and white appliqué. The back is finished off with a small loose shawl in the orange chiffon. Sarah's delighted with her new dress and wore it out at 2 feis last w/e..... yes 2 one in London the other in Birmingham. As soon as she gets the finished pics to me I'll post them.

Jaisie's Dress

2007-03-22T20:31:00.000Z

Jaisie is my friend's little girl. She's 4 in May. Her big sister, Jasmine, dances and has a couple of old dresses still at home....however, Jaisie, being Jaisie decided she didn't want a second hand dress, she wanted one of her own lol.

So we decided to make her one. Nothing fancy, her mum said, just something she can call her own. Well as Jaisie is at most local feis and will be at the Worlds, I thought what a great walking advertisment, so put more in than they were expecting.

She rang me tonight on the way to dance class to tell me she was very excited......... well she was dumbfounded, as was her mum and sister, when they actually saw the dress.

Fitted her perfectly, even without any fittings. Here are a couple of her in the dress at dance class....love the socks don't you?

Oh yes, she loves butterflies, but had no idea that's what was going on the dress....so the butterfly hair accessories were a complete coincidence. Poor love can sleep tonight now. She's been waiting for this dress since last year and each time we saw her she looked at us in anticipation and then disappointment when we didn't have it with us.

We made the butterfly cape to emulate the bought butterflies on the dress. This has been an absolute joy to make, and I think Margaret and myself have loved it because we were making it for Jaisie and she's such a cutie. This is one of those dresses that will be put on AFTER she's competed, if and when she does.....there's a ruling in NW UK that Novice dancers can't wear dresses, lol that's going to confuse everyone isn't it?

Ashleigh's dress

2007-03-14T19:46:00.000Z

Second attempt at a 'Theatre Curtain' dress. Made this for Ashleigh who's a young dancer in Rhi's school. She's 10 and wanted a pretty dress.

Think I may have just filled that request. It debuted today at a St Patrick's Dispaly at school and will be seen again on Friday and Saturday.

The base fabric is a lovely white chiffon over net embellished with mother of pearl sequin circles. You may recognise the pink I've used on the upper bodice, insert and sleeve as the same pink I used in Tori's dress. See an earlier post.

The lining is pink and white gingham as are one of the sets of frill. The other set and shawl are a very pale pink voile curtaining with silver hologram circles. We decided to add some celticness to this dress as well as keeping it 'trés moderne' Please excuse my attempts at French, it's been over 34yrs lol. The finishing touches were some tiny little voile flowers with a circle of crystal in the middle of them. Hope this dress brings you lots of luck Ashleigh, and I'm sure you'll turn people's heads in it. If you would like to leave a comment about the dress feel free. Constructive criticism always welcome.

The Finished Routine

2007-01-31T22:27:00.000Z

Riverdance on Ice (the journey)

2007-01-31T22:18:00.000Z

Back to Class

2007-01-07T23:29:00.000Z

Well we got back to class on Saturday, Thursday being to wild to do anything other than jar the door on my car so it now creaks :o(

After 1.5 hours in the car my poor knees were killing me (think they creak more than the door) and I made a rather 'undignified' exit from the car when we got there. Although I'm not sure who was hurting more, me or Rhi after her 2 dance classes :oP

Aren't breaks a pain....in more ways than one? How many dancers actually do anything when they're 'on a break' and I don't mean the Rachel and Ross type of 'on a break'.

We got to Derby and I had a much needed cup of tea (whereas after one dance Rhi needed a glass of water) then found out I'd won the 'bonus ball' :oD
Yay, good start to the year, paid for my fuel and dance classes with some left over. So Derby done n dusted, off to Nottingham for the 2nd class of the day. Another ungainly exit from the car ensued....stopped short of palms on the ground tho'. We had 3 birthdays...and 2 cakes...good job I haven't started my healthy eating plan yet, I'd have hated to pass up on that, especially as one of the cakes was from Costco and I knew it would be sooo delicious. I was so tired we decided to forgo 5 o'clock club and head off home..... not like me, I must've been REALLY tired. Stopped at McDonalds half way home for a coffee... oh yes I fed Rhi too. She was ravenous after all the 'work' she'd put in :oS Then when I got home had to go to McDonalds again, no not for Rhi, she wasn't that hungry, for Niall, who was! He was fishing...see his pic.....and wanted a large 6 chicken nugget meal and 2 cheeseburgers......he's a growing lad :oP So back home I put my feet up and watched TV for the rest of the night. So first class back went well, I think, and I'll get myself on the eating plan and refuse any more birthday cake, should it be available in the future ;o)

China Blue

2006-12-30T01:20:00.000Z

This was my first 'Off the Rack' and I loved it so much I was upset when it sold. The fabric just reminded me of some china tea cups my nan used to have, hence the name. I could have sold it about 10 times over had it been the right size and even Kelsey, the new owner, had a list of dancers from her school ready to buy it if it hadn't fit.

This has also been a lucky dress for the new owner, who after 2 years in Prelim, without placing, placed at the 1st two feis after buying the dress.

The main fabric is a printed cotton and parts are overlayed with a white chiffon with tiny hologram discs, appliquéd with blue diamond foil fabric and silver hologram sewn sequin this dress sparkles all the way

Jacqui's Dress

2006-12-28T20:18:00.000Z

Jacqui's TC contacted me and asked if I was willing to make a dress with their fabrics and design....course I was, who can afford to turn down work? The main dress is made from a flannelette with a sparkle chiffon overlay. We stuck to the design with just a few tweaks here and there.

As you can see once Jacqui took delivery of her dress she 'pimped' it herself :o) Nice add ons Jacqui. She also recalled at the SRO this year which was great news.

Nicola's Dress

2006-12-18T23:50:00.000Z

Nicola is 10 and lives in Scotland. Her mum contacted me and asked if I could do the new wrap dresses. I said I could.... then panicked, I'd never done one before eeek! Nicola wanted lilaccy/purple with pink and white soI did some sketches and this is the one decided upon

She also wanted stripes on the dress and I decided to do the ruffle in a stripe, but, I couldn't find a striped fabric to go with the main facric, which is a beautiful pure silk tie dye sari fabric with flowers made up from purple sequins so plumped for pink and white gingham which went with it perfectly.

^front

^Nicola being fitted

Turned out fine for a first attempt I think

Tori's Dress

2006-12-17T23:29:00.000Z

Tori is a dancer from North Carolina. Her mom contacted me after my shameful self promotion on the Voy boards. After many e-mails discussing the type of dresses Tori and her mom liked I came up with the drawings below.

Once these were approved we set to work making it and as you can see by the following photos it didn't turn out far from the drawings.

^front

^back

Hope it brings you lots of Luck Tori

Brigid's dress

2006-12-17T16:44:00.001Z

Brigid is a dancer in the MAtR. I was contacted by one of the senior dancers at her school who had been given the job of liasing with the chosen dressmaker. I was very lucky that this was me.

^This was the original drawing I did and e-mailed to Brigid and her mom for their approval. They liked the design, apart from the striped fabrics in the pleats so we used the pink and green combo. My trusty assistant, well my friend, Margaret and myself started the dress and despite a few unforseen delays along the way, we finished it in time for Brigid's 'O' in Philly

^ front of dress

^ back of dress

This is the headband we sent over, together with a regularone which could have been a backing for a tiara.

The dress, unfortunately, was water damaged when it got there and to date we're waiting for UPS to make a decision about compensation.