{"id":2414,"date":"2018-10-29T03:52:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T03:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2018-10-29T03:52:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T03:52:17","slug":"boy-am-i-a-bad-website-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/boy-am-i-a-bad-website-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy am I a bad website blogger!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Yep! I just realized that my last web post here on <em>The ShuttleSmith<\/em> website was in 2017!\u00a0 Yikes!\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been busy with The ShuttleSmith projects in the last year, you just haven&#8217;t seen any of it here.<\/p>\n<p>I have been occasionally posting to my TheShuttleSmith Facebook page, probably because it&#8217;s a bit easier to do so and because I had lost the address\/password to my website at work when I had to get a new computer.\u00a0 Actually it was two new computers because they (my employer) said my computer(s) were compromised with a virus.\u00a0 They pointed to my attempts to go to Georgia Seitz&#8217;s pages, which when I try to go there comes up as blocked by the companies software.\u00a0 I told them &#8216;yes, I had tried to go to that website&#8217; but that I didn&#8217;t understand why it was blocked.\u00a0 Anybody have this same issue with Georgia Seitz&#8217;s website????\u00a0 But I digress&#8230;.It was due to this blockage and thus suspected virus alarm that my employer gave me a new computer&#8230;which in turn wiped out all my bookmarks and stored passwords&#8230;which is why I couldn&#8217;t get into my WordPress software to create blog posts as easily.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I&#8217;ve been doing in 2018 synopsis (tatting related):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been working on book number 8 in my &#8216;Fun with Split Ring Tatting&#8217; series.\u00a0 It seems to me that these books are what keep the spark in my tatting world.\u00a0 I just love every step of the creative process.\u00a0 I originally titled this book &#8216;Mathematical Designs in SRT&#8217; but now that I am about 90% done with it, I think it will be called &#8216;3-D Illusions in SRT&#8217;.\u00a0 It will be one of those books that you will either fall in love with the uniqueness of the designs or totally hate&#8230;but I&#8217;m going to publish it anyway.\u00a0 <em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">More about this book and designs in upcoming blog posts.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have been working with a very talented tatter (Diana Howe) to tat many of my designs into real thread because I just don&#8217;t have the time anymore to keep up with tatting everything in my books myself.\u00a0 (Keep in mind that I work full-time.)\u00a0 <em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">More about my relationship with Diana in upcoming blog posts.\u00a0 I may also post about my unique full-time job.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last year (2017) my time was totally devoted to moving (physically) from one house to another.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t even get around to getting a real vacation.\u00a0 This year was different.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My husband and I went to Grand Junction, Colorado for a ski trip in January.\u00a0 We took the Amtrak train there and back.\u00a0 The train offers me a whole day to relax and tat while traveling.<\/li>\n<li>I had two weeks to travel in July via motorcycle to\/from Colorado.\u00a0 Of course I had my tatting with me, even while traveling via motorcycle.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t you just love how portable tatting is!?<\/li>\n<li>In September, I traveled (alone) to Georgia via motorcycle to teach at\/attend the Palmetto Tatters Workshop.\u00a0 I had two weeks to get there and back and camped along the way as much as possible.\u00a0 I am especially happy when I can put several passions together (motorcycling, traveling\/camping, &amp; tatting).\u00a0 <em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">More about my (fantastic!) trip to Palmetto in upcoming blog posts.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li>In October, my husband &amp; I traveled again by train to CO to relax and motorcycle in the area for one week. (We have motorcycles stashed there.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I still have a shop on Etsy.com where I sell my books and enameled tatting shuttles<em> (shop name: TheShuttleSmith).<\/em>\u00a0 I will be spending more time in the near future updating my Etsy shop, probably with more\/new shuttles &amp; all my books.\u00a0 <em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">More about my Etsy listings in upcoming blog posts.\u00a0 You will probably see postings about how I create my enameled shuttles too.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I just recently was given a huge stash of vintage enamel supplies to use in my enameled tatting shuttle production business.\u00a0 I just got them organized so that I can use them.\u00a0 I am looking forward to experimenting and using them in the very near future.\u00a0 Enameling gives me a different creative outlet to experiment with using &#8216;color&#8217; and &#8216;enameling techniques&#8217;.\u00a0 <em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">So look for upcoming blog posts on new enameled tatting shuttles and enameling techniques.\u00a0You will probably see postings about how I create my enameled shuttles too.<\/span> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have been asked to teach 2 tatting classes (plus one short Teneriffe Lace class) at the upcoming 2019 IOLI Convention in Spokane, Washington.\u00a0 So I spent some time this summer working with Patti Duff, the Convention Tatting Teacher Coordinator to design two unique tatting classes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Class #1 is titled <strong>&#8216;<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Modern Tatting for Modern Tatters<\/em>&#8216;<\/strong> and will introduce 4 very different class projects in the four days of classes.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li>Class #2 is titled <strong><em>&#8216;A Bounty of Tatted Delights&#8217;.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>This class will focus on how the host state of the Convention (Washington) is the producer of many fruits &amp; vegetables.\u00a0 Thus a whole new book of tatted designs is in the design\/planning stages to be published in time for this convention.<\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">More about my these classes\/designs in upcoming blog posts<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m nicely settled into my new home in Iowa.\u00a0 Other than mowing the fairly big lawn of a small acreage, the house hasn&#8217;t taken up too much of my free time.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>So that is what I have been up to so far in 2018.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep! I just realized that my last web post here on The ShuttleSmith website was in 2017!\u00a0 Yikes!\u00a0 I have been busy with The ShuttleSmith projects in the last year, you just haven&#8217;t seen any of it here. I have been occasionally posting to my TheShuttleSmith Facebook page, probably because it&#8217;s a bit easier to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/boy-am-i-a-bad-website-blogger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boy am I a bad website blogger!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}