As part of my teaching and quilt design business, I send out an occasional newsletter once or twice a year. So far, this has been done with very simple tools – an Excel database, regular e-mail and a pdf attachment. I’d like to move to an html e-mail format with more sophisticated, streamlined subscriber administration. […]
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The wonders of e-mail
It’s over a year since I was in my hometown holding a Serendipity Circles workshop with Warkworth Quilters. So I was surprised, but delighted!, when I received this picture of Annette’s finished quilt: Annette doesn’t have e-mail but Anne (the group’s president) kindly sent the image by e-mail along with this note “I hope this […]
She’ll be Apples
Over the years, my Christmas stocking has often contained a Red Delicious apple (from Washington State where I was an exchange student). As a delightful gift to all of us, Esther has just launched her Red Delicious Block of the Month: The launch was slightly delayed because the Blogger platform does not allow you to […]
Keeping Count
I have numbers on the brain at the moment. First there was the scary task of processing two months worth of receipts from our sojourn in Europe when the A$ plummeted. Then I had to get my tax return into the authorities before the end of October (they sent me my refund in under a […]
Holiday Snaps
In an effort to keep some focus to my online activities, I’ve been a little slow to join the Flickr party but here I am: www.flickr.com Go to serendipitypatchwork’s photostream I’ve just loaded up 300 or so photos from our sojourn in France into some sets including: England La Bergerie Cote d’Azur Bouin and Environs […]
Back at the Beach
I’m BAAACK! I’m feeling all sorts of cricks and creaks (arising from sleeping on a sofa bed for the past couple of nights and then exaceberated exacerbated by the general contortions of sitting in an airline seat for 14+ hours) but am otherwise in good shape. Once I clear the enormous pile of snail mail, […]