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New Site Up and Running

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Jan 252011

The new site is up and running. It’s not perfect yet, and it’s not complete, but it is running. All the product information, portfolios, and tutorials from the old site have been transferred, along with about 1/3 of my old blog entries. In the next few weeks expect the layouts to change, especially in the portfolios and the sidebars. I’ll also be continuing to add all my old blog entries. Current Features: My sewing, corsetry, and art blog is now up and running. In the next few days I will resume updates with WIP, musings on sewing and drafting, notification [...]

About

I am a self-taught artist, seamstress, and craftswoman, specializing in realistic artwork, Celtic knotwork, corsetry, and costuming. This page includes my resume, list of online locations, and a bit about who I am as an artist and artisan.

Hello world!

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Dec 132010

You have found the future site of Sidney Eileen, who is busy rebuilding a better space in the web. Feel free to look around, but the information is not complete, and you might find things broken or funny-looking. My real information is still up and running on my old website, so please visit it while waiting for this one to be finished.

Updating – Site Redesign

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Dec 082010

Hi All, I must appologize for the lack of updates during the past couple months. This has been due to technical difficulties with the back end of my web site. Just to post this brief text blog entry, I will be lucky if 1 out of 6 clicks of the “Save” button actually saves the article instead of kicking me out and erasing all my changes. I am my own tech support, and my time is spread thin, so I have thus far been unable to fix the problem. Add this ongoing update issue to a host of other problems [...]

ISP Troubles

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Oct 122010

I must apologize for my lack of updates in the past two months. The internet service provider I have been using has never been the most reliable, but for some unknown reason since late August they have become absolutely horrid. My connection has been so intermittent that I have been lucky to just keep up with my email and other direct communication with customers. As for updating my web site, the connection was so unstable that my own web site was continually interpreting my attempts to update as the efforts of a hacker. :( The ISP has finally solved the [...]

Fully Boned Stays, and General Update

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Sep 212010

Sorry updates have been infrequent the last few weeks. I’m now a month into the school semester and starting to get back into the swing of college. I’ve also been having various glitches with the back end of my web site that has made updating a rather tedious endeavor. Thankfully, it seems to be behaving itself this evening. ;) In other projects, I am starting work on the wedding dress (finally). If my web site continues to behave itself I should start posting in-progress photos tomorrow, with updates every day or two until it’s finished. I am going to make [...]

Back In College Part-Time

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Aug 252010

I have returned to the local community college extension, part time. I’m taking a class in ancient art history, and a pen and ink drawing class, and I’ll post artwork and anything interesting from the classes. I have already been planning for this, and spreading out the orders for the next couple months. Sadly, I underestimated the amount of work I would get done this month before classes started, so I’m a bit behind schedule and hoping to catch up by mid-October. Current turnaround for most new orders will be late October or November. The plan is to continue with [...]

A Well-Intentioned Warning

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Jun 182010

After re-posting my quilted corset demo, I received one particular comment complimenting the clarity and thoroughness of the tutorial, and warning me that I might want to take softer photos of the actual corsets, to hide the precise seam placements. This individual meant very well, and was concerned for me that other corset-makers might steal my patterns (and by extension my customers) by examining the clear and thorough photos of my work. I specifically want that clarity in my photos. All of them. I am well aware that people can mimic patterns by examining a photo of an existing corset, [...]

A Brief Update

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Jun 092010

I have been busy getting as much done as possible before getting on a plane tomorrow to go visit family. There’s a lot I want to post, but most of it will have to wait until I get back. I spent most of Monday working on the white coutil tightlacing underbust in the hopes of finishing it before leaving, but that isn’t going to happen. I have far too much to do today before the trip that has nothing to do with sewing, and yesterday was spent fixing a snafu (more about that below). It needs the boning secured [...]

Learning the Standard Block Pattern

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Jun 032010

One of the interesting things about being entirely self-taught is that I learn things all out of order. During the last couple days I did a lot of pattern drafting, including finally sitting down and figuring out how to make from measurements a standard body block for pattern-drafting. It’s been on my to-do list for quite some time, as it will make my life far easier when designing anything other than corsets (and even some corsets), but finally became a necessity in order to draft the mock-up for the wedding dress. I’m very happy with that, and how it turned [...]

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