Salutations Weavolution!
Have you missed us? We know we have been fairly quiet of late, but you have been busy sharing your knowledge with, inspiring, and encouraging each other. We have been keeping an eye on the site and all the great things our community has been doing this past month. We have been celebrating our family. Our visit to the US included trips to see most of our family, which was inspring indeed. As Erica's family mostly lives in Missouri, it also inspired a new appreciation for English weather, which is less humid (believe it or not) and below 105 degree heat index! :)
Last week we celebrated TJ's first birthday! It was so wonderful
sharing that moment with him and our friends. Every moment with him is
special, but it is especially joyeous to celebrate his growth with
friends and family, like fininshing a particularly challenging piece of
weaving and taking it show your guild members or receiving praise for it
here! TJ received numerous gifts from friends and family duirng our
travels. We feel the biggest gift we can share with him is inspiration,
encouragement, and learning, all the things we love to see on
Weavolution.
We are coming up on our 2nd anniversary as Weavolution's owners as we do that we are looking back and celebrating our growth. Much of our growth so far has been learning. We have learned a lot about Drupal, Weavoltuion's Content Management System and about running such a large website. We thank everyone who has been so supportive. We have also recently expanded the line of Cyberfiber Classes to include prerecorded classes.
As always Daryl Lancaster is pioneering this venture for us and you can see the classes she is offering on the classes page. The advantage of these classes is you can fit them into your busy schedules. We have heard from many of you that you long to take the classes offered here, but can not find a time that meets your needs. This is our response to your input! The classes are ready to go. When you sign up for a class, you will recieve log in information for Cyber Fiber, if you don't already have access, and a link to view the class online. Unlike other videos and DVD's you will have access to the class 24 hours for at least 3 months. This arrangement will allow our teachers to refresh and update their class content, so we're not locked into the class as it is now. As a teacher, Erica knows classes evolve over time and this will allow us to keep offering the most up to date version of our class range.
We have several more ideas about expanding to meet more of your needs and look forward to finding a way to do so in the months and years to come. Last weekend we visited Fibre East in Bedfordshire, where we spoke to many potential new advertisers. Some of these advertisers had interesting ideas about how we can better meet your needs. We will be working on these and testing viability. We hope you look forward to more future innovations.
As always happy weaving,
Oliver, Erica, and TJ