PANTO!!!!!

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I had a very exciting meeting yesterday about making some AMAZING costumes for panto this year, working with my bestest buddy Catherine Sanger. I highly recommend you all check out her Facebook page here. 

More info as things develop. Can’t wait to get cracking. OH NO YOU DON’T! OH YES I DO! etc…

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New Item added to my Etsy Shop

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Beautiful handmade Liberty print cotton self tie knot fastening watch. Quality Quartz watch face.

Strap measures 44cm

Watch face 3cm

Personalise your watch with 3 choices of Liberty cotton lawn fabric and 10 choices of watch face. Just let me know your choice in your order.

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Corsets

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I’ve been super excited about this all day, so I found some photos of lovely simple underpinning corsets I’ve made. I love these just because of their shape and simplicity, and I remember really enjoying making them too. These were both for operas I was working on, so I don’t get credit for design or cut just make. But they’re still lush!

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Exciting Ideas!

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*** Reposting this from earlier this year, this is still defo in the pipeline, I just didn’t expect to be so ill with my pregnancy! Normal functions now resuming! ***

Quick update… Ideas are dangerous things, and I’ve been having them so that’s definitely a problematic thing to be happening.

I’m thinking corsets. Sexy corsets. Beautiful corsets. Bright, colourful, crazy, over the top carnival on a merry-go-round, day of the dead Corsets!

Bought some supplies from the super wonderful Vena Cava Designs online shop. Can’t wait to get cracking. In the meantime I’m going to drool over my corsetry books and getting some inspirado.

I’ll keep you posted and put up pictures of corsetry progress.

Eeeeeeep!

2014 in review

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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

So I just realised I haven’t posted anything since April. Sorry about that. I’ll try to be a bit more prolific in 2015.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,600 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 27 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

My mini protest banner

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*Update*

I thought I’d add a brief explanation.

I put this mini protest banner up on the railings outside The Settlement building in Bargoed, in the Rhymney valley.

The Settlement is a community building, which houses various community projects, clubs and associations. Bargoed has a strong community spirit, but many issues surrounding cuts, lack of employment and crime. Much like many towns in the valleys. I lived in Bargoed for a short time, it is currently undergoing a regeneration programme, which will be extremely positive when complete.

My protest banner was meant to encourage people to think what they could do to improve their community.

It’s no good thinking, someone should do something about whatever issue you feel passionately about, you are someone. Do something.