Last update to this blog was on July 21, three months ago exactly. I am truly sorry for that. I had intended to warn that this blog would have little to no activity for a bit, but obviously that post didn’t happen.
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It has once again been more than a year since I posted about my chronic health problems on this blog. That happens when I have made no meaningful progress, and therefor feel like I have nothing new to write about. I do occasionally vent or rant on my personal Facebook profile, which is also where the latest developments to my health unfolded in the public eye.
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I am coming up on two years since my last health update on this blog, all of which can be found under the health tag. For those of you who are relatively new to this blog, you may or may not be aware of my ongoing struggles with chronic illness and disability following a tick
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Last August I began writing a book about my life. It is biographical in nature, but I don’t consider it a biography, because the focus of the book is not my journey as a creative individual, or anything else I am happily proud of accomplishing or doing. It is about the abuses I endured as a child through young adult, mostly from my immediate family, how those abuses affected me, and how I worked to recover from them and become a person I could be proud of.
Read MoreIt has been a very long time since I’ve written a formal update on my health. At the beginning of May it will be four years since I stopped taking antibiotics and entered the recovery phase of my illness, a little over five years since I started working with a specialist who could identify and
Read MoreSorry for the radio silence. Â I have some more spoonflower fabrics ready to release, some photos of one of the Viking hoods I’ve made recently, more items to photograph, and a host of writing projects I would like to be working on, but all of that has had to take a back seat to moving
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Teaser photo and some detailed images of the viking garb I have been working on. Hand stitched and embroidered serk, apron dress, and apron.
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Apparently I had not gotten around to posting all the WIP images from July to this blog.  My apologies for that.  I have not actually worked on the hybrid style fully corded corset in nearly two months, but here are a couple more images of the progress I did make at that time. Project: Fully Corded Hybrid
Read MoreWhile it is undeniable that I am feeling markedly better than I have in years, and that I am managing to work on projects again, and even do a little informal teaching, the biggest question on my mind has shifted to: Am I capable of resuming work? Â And if not, how far am I from
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Brief recap of NACLS 2015 (North American Corsetry and Lingerie Symposium), and my interview from Lucy Corsetry.
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