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More teaching! This time in Wellington!

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Thank you all, Melbournians who are attending and those from across the world who have expressed that you wish you could be attending alike, for your enthusiastic response to my first international corset class.  Missed the notification?  Here it is: I’m teaching a corset making workshop at Melbourne’s fabulous craft lounge,  Thread Den,  tomorrow, Friday the 6th of April!  To read more about the course, check out  Thread Den’s class description, and then rush over and  book it.  And when I say, rush, I mean RUSH.  Today is totally the last day to do so, and I think there is only one space left. The international corset class came at an exciting time, because I was already working on developing a series of courses that I can teach in Wellington. Yes Wellingtonians, you heard that right: I’m teaching! I’m very excited about this.  I love teaching.  I’m good at it (I know that sounds vain, but sometimes you need to just acknowledge your strengths, and this is definitely one of mine).  And I want there …

Great Big Sea is Great: or why I’m really in Melbourne

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So, I’ve been telling you all about coming to Melbourne for weeks, and about the corset class I’m teaching.  And I am super excited about the corset class, but it’s not why I’m in Melbourne.  Oh no, teaching at Thread Den is just an awesome bonus.  The real reason I am here is quite a story. You see, there is this Newfoundland folk rock band called Great Big Sea. These guys: And they are amazing. Love their music, own every CD, listen to them constantly.  And that’s great.  But what Great Big Sea is really known for is their concerts.  They are supposed to be phenomenal live. And I’ve been trying to see them live for years. I’ve had tickets to their concerts three times, and have missed them at the last minute due to traffic jams/flight delays/strep throat/tornados/volcanos/killer jellyfish swarms etc. etc.  (OK some of those are exaggerations). And now I live in New Zealand.  And Great Big Sea has never performed in the Southern Hemisphere. Do you know how far New Zealand is …

The quick, easy, and brilliant, underbust corset

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Were you guys getting bored of the post about my corset class in Melbourne being at the top of the blog?  I was! Be ready to be slightly bored by this post: it’s going to be sticky for the next four days (so scroll down for new content). But I’m not bored by the idea of the class – I’m super excited about it!  So just in cased you missed it: I’ll be teaching a corset making workshop at Melbourne’s fabulous craft lounge,  Thread Den  on Friday the 6th of April!  To read more about the course, check out  Thread Den’s class description, and then rush over and  book it. When I mentioned that I was teaching a one-day corset class, a number of you commented on how little time that is to make a corset.  And that’s true!  Which is why I’m so excited about this class, and so proud of myself. For over two years I’ve been working on a corset pattern and construction method that can be made up quickly, successfully adapted …