New corset day

Well, yesterday I reached a decision - not hugely momentous, but should have an effect on my life. I'm going to buy a new corset today. Not the expensive properly fitted on, you understand, but another interim one. I was um-ing and ah-ing over the weekend and most of yesterday about whether my current one would last me longer, but yesterday afternoon I realised it was actually more uncomfortable for being too loose.

A bit paradoxical, I know, but let me explain: a properly fitting corset will support you, keep you firmly upright with good posture, hold you in all the right places. Your body adjusts to this, and expects to be held, squished.

So, with a badly fitting corset, it supports me in some places, but not in others, and my body has to work to support me in a position which isn't completely natural, and therefore gets stressed, especially sitting down for a time, for example.

So, I therefore need to get a new one if I'm going to continue to corset most days. Part of my dilemma was using some of my savings towards my fitted corset for this one, but I also don't want to be corsetless too long, so its the only sensible option :)

I've been doing more writing, squeezing the words out one by one, so hopefully a new story won't be too far off... the second part of Chastity Corset. There, I've said it now, now I've got to do it!

xoxo

CazaDolly

Writing and corset possibilites

I started to do more writing yesterday, trying to write the second part of my Chastity Corset story. Its hard - I usually have quite a clear idea of where the plot will go, but I only had a vague idea (which I won't give away) so it was quite hard work expanding on that out to a reasonable short story length. I guess its like writers block a lil bit. I tend to work out plots in my mind before putting them down in writing, which seems to work OK for me. So I think I've got this part worked out in my head - just have to actually write it now!

Went out at lunchtime yesterday corset hunting. My current one is getting loose, and I'm away for a week in about a week and a half at a conference in the US, so I would like something that fits properly for when I'm there. My normal corset shop up until now is Burleska which I'd definitely recommend. They have a shop up in Camden, where I usually go, rather than using mail order, so I can see and try on before I buy. So I went up yesterday, and they have a lovely cupcake one which I quite fancy, so maybe next week, I'll go get it for being away.

I browsed alot too, gazing at the gorgeous Gothic clothing and Lolita dresses. Camden Market really is a wonderful place - I could spend hours there, wandering the narrow lanes, looking at all the little shops - some are very touristy, others less so - a couple were selling what looked like quite serious corsets. Not cheap, which is always a good sign!

So another trip up next week I think, and hopefully I'll have another part to my story by then too.

Sunday

Not a fun day yesterday or Friday evening - went to bed with alot of pain in my leg, and tingling in my foot and hand - woke up feeling similar, called NHS direct, who just told me to take pain killers. Called the out of hours doctor and got an appointment, but she couldn't decided what was wrong, but did rule out anything like DVT which would be an emergency. So still hobbling a lil bit, and still a bit sore.

Otherwise, spent the day yesterday doing a bit of shopping and other housey type stuff - nothing *that* interesting (why are you reading my blog again? Oh, and I meant to be interesting? oopsies! OK, I'll try a bit harder.)

Today I was helping a friend with her garden, which was quite fun, and then out with other friend and have eaten *way* too much. For those who don't know I've been dieting and slimming. That was my New Year's resolution, to lose weight, and I think I've done pretty well. I had a corset which I bought last year which I couldn't wear fully laced. That is now way too big, so I bought another one, which was 2 inches smaller, and now that is fully laced, and starting to feel a little bit loose.

So I feel fantastic, people comment that I look sooo much slimmer. I'm wearing my corset more and more too, which I'm sure helps with the weight loss. They say that it doesn't directly help - of course they make you slimmer, but then when you take them off you go back to your original size. However, while wearing it, I feel less hungry, so I'm able to eat less.

And tonight, I ate a bit more than I have recently, but by no mean loads, and I feel soooo full! I'm not even corseted, but I think my stomach must've shrunk or something, which is wonderful! I don't think I'll eat anything all week.

But my aim now is to lose so much that my current corset doesn't fit at all, then I'll get another new one, this time from FairyGothMother, get properly fitted this time, and not shrink too much that it only lasts 2 months.

Though I may have to buy another interim one - FGM take 4-8 weeks to make them, so I doubt I'd last that long without constraint :)

Wedding!

Well, not mine, of course, but Will and Kate's - *loved* the dress - sooooo gorgeous, it was sophisticated without being too large or overstated. And they looks so relaxed and comfortable with the whole day - I just thought it was very natural and a happy occasion, like it was just a normal wedding with a few hundred normal guests, rather than 2 *billion* people watching!

Love them both

Inspiration

Inspiration is a funny thing - it comes at the most unusual times. And it is the most important part of a story. I can be sitting, writing away, putting lots of words into my prose, but really not feeling inspired. I sometimes wish I'd been in the era of the typewriter, where I could yank the paper out of the rollers and screw it up into a ball, and throw it across the room at an already full waste paper basket. But, sadly, the last ever typewriter factory has just closed, and I'm not sure it would be very practical - especially as one of my favourite places to write is, as I am now, sitting on the train. But I digress, just a little bit.

But sometimes, I'll just write a few words, but know that I've got an inspired idea. Not always my own - my latest story (have you read it yet?) was inspired by a conversation with my Second Life Miss - she is quite an inspiration to me.

And of course, it helps to draw from my own life, my own experiences and dreams. Alot of what I write probably isn't realistic in real life, but that is the nature of fiction, I guess. If it was, then it wouldn't be fiction. But we can all dream

A new start

I appear to be a writer. So, I should be writing daily, really, shouldn't I? Obviously. So, I hope you've seen my writing, so you know something of what I'm about. So, I'm going to try to write something here every day.

So today I'm going to talk about corsets a little - I'm Caza and I'm a corset addict. I've started to wear it daily, almost and today was my first day since over Easter. It was just too hot and I was doing too many things like gardening to wear it. Its easier wear it in a nice air-conditioned office than out and about. So, first thing this morning, I slipped a liner over my tummy, then fastened my corset around my waist. I pulled the laces behind me as tight as I could, and felt my tummy being squished down. I tied the laces in a double bow, and carried on dressing, corset beneath my clothes.

Then it is walking to the station. It feels wonderful, the corset changes how I move, how I walk. I'm taller, my hips sway differently, my posture is good.

But my corset is too loose. Its fully laced shut and only just tight enough. My weight is dropping, and my waist is shrinking, so this won't last long. That makes me happy to be new, thinner Caza, but I'm sad as I'm going to be between corsets soon.

Wow

OK, so its been a while, but there's a new story on the way! Hope to get it finished this weekend, or early next week... I do hope you all like it :)

Love xoxo

Caza