“We’ve made some good friends from people we’ve met as clients,
and they’re absolutely amazed by all of the steps involved in our work.
It’s like watching magic happen; and some of our clients like to come
and watch or even get involved in the hand-painting to learn more about
the distressing, burnishing, and enhancing. They call it ‘Fab Therapy.’”
The finished product is undeniably breathtaking, but the process
of construction itself is astounding, as well. Using dense foam as their
medium, a computer driven hot wire takes Molly’s drawings to create
the rough elements of the props, which are then sculpted by hand.
For large-scale props, the process is done in sections, each of those
small elements created separately and later connected with aluminum
channeling to build the full spectrum of what is essentially a fantasy
brought to very vivid, very glittery life. “This business has taken a total
time commitment with some very long days and late nights—and lots of
glitter in my hair,” Molly says with a laugh.
It’s not all sparkles, of course; the business has taken endless amounts
of hard work and dedication from Molly and Joe as they’ve been
building their team of crafty helpers to aid in construction, set-up, and
removal of their pieces and adding to their inventory of items to use in
future projects. But the creatively-minded couple has been making it
work, successfully becoming one of the best event companies in the area,
their passion sparking far greater than any amount of glitter ever could.
Fabadashery is located at 3842 Liggett Street, Pensacola, Florida, 32505.
For more information, call (850) 516-2888 or visit www.fabadashery.com.
Find them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/fabadashery/.
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