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Sometimes being able to sew is kind of like being a doctor. You always seem to be ‘on call’ even if you aren’t actually doing a shift at work! People always seem to think I carry a sewing kit around with me so I can just ‘sew on this button’ or ‘take this dress in’. I do take some supplies when we go away for fancy dress weekends now as there will always be something that needs doing! And not just that, people always drop by needing a last minute tutu or a costume ‘ASAP’ Obviously, for friends and family...

We have a saying at the Tutu Factory UK when Luby (the designer) creates something that everybody wants and we're working silly hours to get the 100s of orders out. "We've created a monster." And with the Roar costume we certainly did! If you've seen any of our other blogs you'll see we love Katy Perry. But we didn't actually purposely set out to make her Roar costume. A customer requested a custom order to create the roar tutu skirt and we later decided to make one with the flowers and then see if we could make a top to go with...

Two things you need to know.  1) Fancy dress to me is serious business. And I'm all about the detail. 2) I'm really un-organised. Everything is left to the last minute concerning my costumes. This weekend was my 90s Butlins weekend. We go every year so we can dress up and dance around to cheesy 90s music. And we take our theme very seriously. We plan all year. Some of the group have even had real fall outs over who is going to be what character of the chosen theme (when we finally agree on one) Don't mention Peter Pan,...

This is our gorgeous Fan of the Month for August 2015! We made her a custom Little Mermaid inspired veil. Mermaid tail inspired ears in a green glitter fabric with a lilac sparkle hair bow inspired by Ariel's shell bra with the added dinglehopper detail on the hair bow. (That's a fork for you non-Disney peeps, although I'm sure you must have been hiding under a shell if you haven't seen this film!)How awesome does it look finished off with her Ariel costume?Send in your photos wearing your Tutu Factory purchase to enter our Fan of the Month comp.