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Procrastination is my Super power!

01 Monday Feb 2016

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I’d like to pretend that I have been hard at work making beautiful things…  but… I haven’t! I have made stuff! I finished my coat, but I’m not 100% happy with it. I made a birthday present for one of my nieces (can’t show you yet but it is Awesome!).  I also made a dress for Amy’s Wedding… Wait!  I have been busy making beautiful things! Go me 😀

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A coat in time for summer

17 Tuesday Mar 2015

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The coat is coming along slowly, I’d like to say that is due to all the painstakingly careful hand sewing but that would only be half true.

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I think the collar looks too high. I’m not convinced I would be able to do it up.

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The problem is I would have to unstitch the neck and re insert the collar…. What do you think?

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Thank you Sewing Bee

08 Sunday Feb 2015

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Yesterday smallest child and I curled up to catch up on the Great British Sewing Bee. I love that she is getting to an age where we can enjoy that stuff together. She got a sewing machine for Christmas so watching all the sewers really inspired her to make something. So she pulled out her fabric and we made a cushion cover!

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Turns out her enthusiasm helped to inspire me!

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It’s not a lot, Just button holes for my coat, but it is a start.

My sewing machine cover is off, long may it stay that way!

How do you like my impersonation of an Ostrich?

25 Sunday Jan 2015

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So…. You may have noticed, when I get scared I hide!

I don’t know if it’s the fear of actually doing something on a serious level or not but something has been messing with my desire to sew. I look at the pieces of my new coat (with a hood and everything) and I can’t seem to bring myself to finish it! I look at the pile of new fabric and have no inspiration to use it, not even the Wonder Woman stuff.

I find myself choosing to clean the house/scrub the toilet/organise my underwear as an excuse not to sew.  J is torn between worry and joy.

I have a Wedding Dress to make for the beginning of sept, fingers crossed I sort my self out in time 😉

It’s big and scary and I don’t wanna!

19 Friday Sep 2014

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Ever want to wave a magic wand and have all the hard stuff done?

I’m not good with networking, or people…. I can talk about corset and dressmaking for hours. Now I have to talk people into helping me, I don’t even like asking my husband for help!

I really wish I could just sew, and all the business side magically does it’s self. I know I’m not the only one who feels that way. So this week I have put on my big girl pants and talked to people! I have messaged a photographer and models, (I was only a little nauseous after) and I have made a start at a cash flow projection.

On a happier, less out of my comfort zone I have also started working on a 20 panel corset for my dress-form. I will add pictures of that later.

So whilst it is all very scary I am not giving up!

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Milestone Resolution.

10 Wednesday Sep 2014

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Have you every looked back on your life and thought “Well that’s disappointing”?

I turned 40 yesterday! I have spent my adult life looking after other people, my Husband, my Children, my Family. I want something for me.

So this blog is about me, about my journey to starting and building my own business. I don’t know what I’m doing and no doubt I will make mistakes but I need to try.

I have been sewing for as long as I can remember, I find it calming and I’d like to think I’m good at it!

I love Corsets! I love how they look, I love how they feel. I have never met a person who, when putting a corset on for the first time, doesn’t instantly put their hands on their waist and “Ohhh!”

So…. I have a name, Stray Goddess. I have a web domain, straygoddess.co.uk. I have a Plan (sort of).

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Wish me luck!

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A New Beginning

07 Sunday Sep 2014

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I sew!

I don’t know how else to describe myself other than, I sew. It calms me, it helps the world make sense, and my children think I’m awesome because of it. 

I’m not a writer, and I’m not sure I can blog consistently or coherently but I will try!

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  • Procrastination is my Super power!
  • A coat in time for summer
  • Thank you Sewing Bee
  • How do you like my impersonation of an Ostrich?
  • It’s big and scary and I don’t wanna!

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