fairy bonbon

Maybe you see it, yes my blog name is inspired by this character and costume. This costume has a large meaning for me, it has a story just like other costumes. But this story has a bad ending, because this dress died in the washing machine.... and cried that I did, and still i'm mourning about this dress. but the charachter is not dead, still pretty alive in me off course.

one day I shall make an new dress for this character, but first her story.

April 2014, elfia (elf fantasy fair) Haarzuilen.

 This was the day my dress got an other meaning than it was only a dress. When I made the dress, it was the intention that the dress was not big! large! and not even impresive. My idea was to lay on the attention to my antique baby carriage (from around 1900's) that I turned to a candycar.

I made the costume so that I had an act that was interactive with children. I was the candy fairy and if the children dare to grabble a candy they had an treatment. The story goes that I passed by a lane for the second time that day, an boy of a market vendor that the first time picked a candy, yelled to his father something in french (I dind't understood what he said) but one word I understand perfect: fairy bonbon.

His father came to me again and the shy boy stood after him and told me, his boy asked a couple times of the fairy bonbon yet should pass by. my haert was touched of that thing, the little boy had waited a couple houres, watching, when i passed by so he had the change to ask me for an other candy. And ofcourse he received some candy.

That day I realised that it is not only the costume that matters but also the character that you play. I love fairy bonbon, just like the other kids. She is the innocent side that I represent.

So you know why I cried about that dress, it was just like a side of me was destroyed. But there i good new as well, I know what I go to make of the dress. An onderpinning for an new regency gown. But I shall later on tell you more about that. first this project.

Photographer: Anges Noppen

So here do you see the dress, with spencer that I made if it was what colder and the turqouise baby carriage. I bought that thing in this coolor, but i'm planning to renovated the thing in her original disign.

 Here do you see the dress without the spencer. This photo is taken on castlfest that year.

 The wig that i'm wearing is gluwed on my forehead, a really dissaster if you try is off....

 Maybe you recognize him... but yes, he is the friend where i'm king with at the certain moment of elfia (2015-2016). On this picture we had met just a few houres a go. And he promised me that day if he wanted to by king of elfia, he wanted me as his queen. lol. and it happend, it was funny if you know that we never met before and that day we where most of the time on the same pictures, because ours colours matched perfectly.

 Here a detail without the spencer. it is a pitty the dress is shrunken and the wild silk is not that pretty anymore. Some ribbons where also a little bit antique and are now bright yellow then pearl white...

I fount this picture look very innocent. A little bit the reflection of the character.














So for the making part.

This was one of the first dresses where i made underwear for. the green dress is made of butterick 6630, and as for more dresses, i made some adjusments. for de spencer as well for the dress.

The underpinning was made of  Sense and Sensebility: a regency underthings pattern.

When I'm gonna make a new regency dress, I will make long stays because that should better with my posture. But for then, i have my short stays. The shift is very basic and dind't need any replacement yet.

My beautyfull green wild silk :'( It was really my precious.. but good, the store where they sell it, is it very buyable. it is 100% wild silk, and that was the suprise. it was under the 10 € t/m

So I think, i'm goining to buy new green silk and make a better one :p

 Here do you see the beginning of the bodice in progress and a chemisette I never ussed. The pearls are pinned, just like de medallion.

Back view, beacause I dind't like the lace closure of the pattern I made a button closure.

 On this picture you can see that the skirt and the lacy fabric are attached on the bodice. For the lacy fabric was an own attachment.

Here you see that is was handstiching for the little beads. It took a little while.

The end product, I made an little riticule (handbag) what here is pinned on for the picture.

I got the lacy fabric from a dear friend of my, she given me at my bithday a year before this project.























I know that er not very much photo's are from the making part. I'm sorry for that.
But this is the story after my fairy bonbon character. And I know that you now why I choose for the blogname Lady BonBon.

This pretty girl is an German carriage from around 1900. The original was a brown bin with white leather coating. I bought him when he was already blue.

But for later, this is an other project for in the future.

Here do you see what i hade in my candy care... nomnomnom, even an fairy had it difficult :p The blue hole was the grable hole for the children.


















So, for the next time, it will be my experience of venice...

Greets Jessie :)