
Alison Kannon is an avid costumer and a rabid historical martial arts and fencing enthusiast. She has been studying and teaching Sixteenth Century European martial arts since 2001. She is an enthusiastic historical re-enactor and created Elizabethanmafia.com in order to share her research of the fashion, culture, and martial arts of Early Modern England.
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Happy Anniversary, Elizabethan Mafia!
On this week in 2005 elizabethanmafia.com was officially registered and I began the long process of creating what would become Elizabethan Mafia. There were some bugs to be fixed, road blocks to jump around, and a learning curve to climb … Continue reading
What I’ve Been Working On And Why I’ve Been So Quiet Lately….
I know that I have been quieter than usual this month. I’ve been working on a rather large project which has nothing to do with my Flanders Gown. I have decided to take the plunge and open an Etsy shop … Continue reading
Wow!
Wow! I knew the jacket pictures were popular but not quite how popular they really were. Elizabethan Mafia had more unique visitiors Tuesday coming to see the new jacket pictures than I have ever had before! You guys are awesome and I just wanted … Continue reading
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Tagged Embroidery, Pictures, Project, The Jacket Project, Website
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Establishing a Schedule
As many of you know issues with my webhost in June precipitated me having to move my site to a new host and rebuild it. Part of rebuilding it was reestablishing and rebuilding this blog. I had thought I had … Continue reading
Website Updates
Yesterday I spent sometime updating my website: Reorganizing: One of the big things that I did was reorganize the menu at the top of the page. I’ve removed the Weekly Inspiration feature. It wasn’t really working with the site the … Continue reading
New Additions
There hasn’t been alot to add this week. I’ve been working on prep for Mousehole so I haven’t had as much time to write about my projects or martial arts. I expect that will get back to normal though next … Continue reading
What once was lost….
I didn’t loose much this summer when issues with my old host caused me to very quickly have to move my site to a new host. I lost a couple of blog posts I was rather fond of but I … Continue reading
Pictures, Articles, and Return Features! Oh My!
Work continues. I worked on several projects this weekend. I didn’t get a whole lot accomplished on any one of them but over all I enjoyed myself immensely and got quite a bit done overall. Sadly I had to abandon … Continue reading
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Tagged Forehead Cloth, Pictures, Project, The Jacket Project, Website
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Weekend Recap: New Gallery Edition
I’m exceptionally pleased with myself. I’ve replaced my old Gallery 2 gallery with a JoomGallery that is incorporated into my site and looks so much nicer than the old one. Those of you who are actually good with computers with … Continue reading
Progress
Things are now, finally, pretty much back up. I’m still working on uploading pictures back into my gallery and some of my project write ups are on hold until I can get those pictures up. But I’m hoping to have … Continue reading

