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May. 20th, 2009

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steampunk jewellery article!

location: derbyshire
mood: bouncy bouncy
Hurah, Vintaj have very sweetly given me a designer highlight, mainly for my steampunk article on creating a gorgeous fob watch for new UK magazine Making Jewellery http://vintaj.com/wpblog/?p=1460#  I'm really pleased how it came out,

I'm also going to be doing more articles on creating fab steam punk bits and bobs, for assorted magazines, and writing corsetry articles for Your wardrobe Unlocked too which will be fun.
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Jan. 13th, 2009

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Vintaj Steampunk

This is my entry for the Vintaj January competition,
the theme is Ice crystals.. gorgeous!

Do go and vote for your favourite piece, the vote is only on this week though... new theme next month!

My new year resolution is to enter every month!

I absolutely love the colour and quality of the vintaj filligree and findings, I think I shall use them in a project for the next Tiara book, maybe with deep red or pink crystals.....
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Jan. 9th, 2009

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gorgeous corset

Thought you might like to see my finished version of the Elizabethan "effigy" corset. It was created for Harman Hay for whom I'm also making a lovely Tudor open fronted robe, mmmmmm. They will be used for a living history display I believe.
 
I used the Reconstructing History pattern as a base, adding my own touches where I felt it needed it.
 
It has four fabric layers, the top one is silk, and over 90 boned channels...

UnfortunatelyIt has fit both size 10,12 and 14 so I can't really judge if it's "a good fit" as it will be worn by a wide variety of people, it does lace front and back though so theres plenty of room for manoeveur!
 
 
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Dec. 4th, 2008

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Brand New!

location: home
mood: excited excited
Well, I've been trying to keep on top of new posts to the Sparkly Jem blog, and I suspect I've just made a rod for my own back, but here we go!

I'm looking forward to meeting and learning from lots of wonderful new people, and joining interesting forums... thats the theory anyway. I may enjoy writing about being creative so much, I finally run out of hours in the day to actually sit down and earn my living by being creative ;)

 

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