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Compliments, and website migration

First, apologies to those of you reading in a blog reader, who probably got tons of posts this morning.  I transferred over a lot of content from the old site, and it will appear in your blog reader.  But I suppose you could consider it a call to read through some of my Writings section, that you may have missed when it came out…a lot of it is really good stuff!

Also, most of the website is now migrated, so check out the Travel, Crafts, and Misc sections…heck, just play with the navigation menu at the top of the page…you’ll find that there’s LOADS of interesting stuff that you might have missed on the old site.  (Bear in mind that it is still a work in progress…some of the top-level pages are still blank, but the bottom-level pages should all be complete.)

And, I got a major compliment yesterday evening…my guild had its annual show and sale, and I donated a shawl (the Black Fire shawl) to the raffle.  (Don’t worry, I wove up two of them, so I still have one for myself!)  Would you believe, it was the most popular item in the raffle?  I don’t know exactly how many tickets it collected, but someone remarked that it looked like half the raffle tickets were in that bowl!  I am taking that as a major compliment, and it makes me happy.  [Read more…]

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Back to work!

The 30-dent reed arrived yesterday (yay!!), so it’s time to start work on the sample again.  I got it beamed on and nicely draped from the lease sticks yesterday, so today will be all about threading.  I haven’t yet solved the problem of what to use as a sleying hook, given that the reed is so fine, but I’m thinking some kind of (suitably bent-into-shape) piano wire might be in order.  So now the problem becomes finding piano wire, or some other sort of stiff, fine wire.  Fortunately it will take me a day or two to thread all 1000 threads, so I have some time to figure out where to find a musician’s store or obscure hobby shop.

The web redesign is proceeding nicely; I added more content and changed s0me of the colors yesterday.  The background is now a very pale purple, and the menu is purple with orange text.  The purple and orange were both taken out of the header image, so harmonize nicely with the header image.  I also added three or four projects, a time-consuming process since I have to upload a photo gallery for each project.  I have gallery software that allows me to upload the photos all at once, but I still have to enter captions, alt text, and descriptions for each photo.  But the end results look very nice, if I do say so myself.  🙂

Cynthia asked how much tomato soup the recipe makes.  It’s about 2 gallons, give or take; I’m a lazy cook and like getting a lot of soup for my efforts.  It freezes very nicely.