I will be officially on my Christmas break from tomorrow (23rd December) until 3rd January. The etsy shop is open today, but will be closed tomorrow morning. I'll respond to any enquiries/messages once I'm back. Orders are still going to be limited after New Year whilst I work on my Look Book, so let me know if you wish to be placed on the waiting ( Read more... )

My new machine is the most beautiful thing I have even seen! Thank you once again to the Sparklemama, as it was a Christmas gift from her ( Read more... )

The number of non corsets that get tagged as "corset" on etsy is incredible. And I don't fully understand why the sellers do it. Surely, making it harder for people to find what they're looking for by ineffective use of tags is only going to put buyers off?

Anyway, I have listed three more pieces on etsy today. Old favourites that have been on ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my birthday( ... )

So, delirium71 made the observation that the model really suited the corset on a recent couple of images. sewcurvy then mused on which would come first in that sort of situation, the model or the corset?

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Aha, here's a Sian Hoffmann piece! That's the other place I knew her name from delirium71, I'm sure she did the corset/girdle that Morgana posted on corsetry a couple of months back. Similar to this, but in black.

So, I'm having an organising/computer/sketching day today. I was up late last night sketching out new ideas and refining existing ones. Damn the V&A and ( Read more... )

From 17th October - 13th November, the kind people at Allendale Bakery & Cafe will have some Sparklewren stuffs on show. Allendale is a small but thriving town where many of my school friends hailed from. In fact, the bakery is a reasonably new venture run by the parents of my good friend Breezer (hurrah!), and they're using some of the available ( Read more... )

This short course looks pretty good.

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Hello all,

I have just finalised my Christmas break this year, so if you are interested in commissioning a Sparklewren corset please note that I will be unavailable between 22nd and 30th December. I will respond to emails and enquiries after this point.

In the meantime it's business as usual!

Many thanks.

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