While 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? 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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Thank you once again to everyone who helped make my trip to Clockwork Alchemy this year a success. Diana and I both had a wonderful time, we got to see lots of friends, and both the panel and workshop were well attended and well received. I’m very happy we made it, and hope we make
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Take Sidney Eileen to Clockwork Alchemy 2015 is an Indiegogo campaign to fund myself and Diana going to Clockwork Alchemy. Clockwork Alchemy is a steampunk convention that happens the last weekend of May in San Jose, attached to Fanime. I have attended every year since it’s inception, providing panels and workshops on corsets, corset making, and corset
Read MoreThis blog entry is an incredibly overdue update on my health situation. It has been just slightly over one year since I finished an eight month run of antibiotics for anaplasma phagocytophilum. During this time I kept putting off writing an update with the intention of creating a video update, but I’m not very comfortable with
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My linen open hood is nearly finished. It is hand sewn and embroidered with linen thread in an acanthus design.
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So, I tried my hand at bent copper wire circlets as a surprise for Diana a couple days ago.
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I have finished the embroidery on my blackwork forehead cloth. In the next week I will be turning it into an actual garment piece. It is flat silk on linen, and the design is my own creation. Elizabethan English style freehand blackwork embroidery. In the photos I have included detail shots of the front and back.
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Embroidered scissor case WIP, fully hand embroidered, leather lining, and lucet braid stitched over the seams.
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Christine Wickham was one of those amazing people who’s intelligence, compassion, caring, wisdom, creativity, and beauty showed through in everything and everyone who’s lives she touched, a radiance that conveyed what an incredible person she was even through text online. Like most of the people I know who will miss her, I knew her through
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