Introducing my new blog

I wanted to change templates because I found that *I* couldn’t find the information I wanted, so other people wouldn’t have much hope. There is so much research information, as well as my practical work (mistakes and all) that is hidden away in there.

This is the Aspire blogger template by Clyde Fernandes.

He and I are working together to make some changes to the template as it stands at the moment

- a whole lot of functionality to help the user find information, including a menu, table of contents and screenshow

- adjustments to make the template less orange based. I’m making a point of introducing hand drawn art from Deviant Art – which is a site where amateur artists from every genre show off their work. The pieces are almost always downloadable for free. I’ll have to have an “Artists’ Acknowledgements” section! :-)

I’m having a LOT of fun designing the new specification. (I used to write specifications for testing software for Defence – this is a whole lot more fun *grin*. I get to play with pretty images and colours)

There’s a fair bit of ‘brainless work’ – 1500 images to pick from for the slideshow, a lot of re-tagging to do, oh and printing out the MasterClass notes.

I’m not embroidering atm. My health is well, pretty sucky. I’m stuck in bed, but able to sit up at the internet (the computer is at the end of my bed) 4-5 hours a day. I watch tv on computer too, so my computer is my ‘entertainment unit’.

I’ve got a fairly hard treatment process to go through in the next 18 months or so. I hope (I’d better!)  improve enough BEFORE then to finish Julie’s Butterfly, and start on my Bishop’s Cope – I have all the materials now.

It’s not at all unusual for me to be in this state, so don’t freak. I’ve been ill for 13 years – it’s very up and down. I’m totally used to it, and cope with it pretty well. If you look at my archives, you can tell when I’ve been sick because of the radical decrease in entries.

Meanwhile, I’m having fun talking in the Facebook Historic Embroidery group, Stitchin Fingers and various friends on-line about all sorts of embroidery topics :-) I can still do research and blog about it, and I also have a whole lot of design work for the Bishop’s Cope that I need to blog about.

Time! Need more Time! Don’t we all!