Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Thumbelina: Carlyn Nuyda Calloway

In Sherman Oaks, California lives another successful Filipino-American in the name of Carlyn Nuyda Calloway. For the past 13 years she has been known as "Thumbelina" for creating wedding dresses, tiaras and accessories. How big she was? Celebrities now want to wear her creations. Julia Roberts wore one of Thumbelina’s tiaras during her 2001 wedding. When Calloway began making baby carriers, Denzel Washington bought a pair for Roberts’ twins. Barbara Walters has featured her on “The View.” Her current project is a wedding dress for day time soap star Jennifer Birmingham.

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