{"id":318,"date":"2007-09-24T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/thinking-blogger-award\/"},"modified":"2016-06-29T12:49:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T19:49:14","slug":"thinking-blogger-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/thinking-blogger-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Blogger Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kristen awarded me the Thinking blogger Award. While it has taken me awhile to post this on my blog and write about it, I was really glad. I don’t think I have ever really shared my writing in any meaningful way beyond letters to friends, essays at school and my thesis. Receiving Kristen’s Thinking Blogger Award made me feel like I had achieved something.<\/p>\n

I started this blog, because:<\/p>\n

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  1. I needed to jumpstart my quiltmaking work after a long drought of time and ideas. I figured if I had an audience of regular readers, it would help me to keep at sewing and writing.<\/li>\n
  2. It was a regular opportunity to write for a reason: I was gearing to up to write something longer and needed to “train.”<\/li>\n
  3. I wanted to share what I was doing, including pictures, so that I could get feedback without joining a quilt group.<\/li>\n
  4. I wanted to chronicle my progress.<\/li>\n
  5. I wanted to explore one subject thoroughly.<\/li>\n
  6. I like the concept of social networking and the technologies associated with it.<\/li>\n
  7. I wanted to show that an ordinary person could also do extraordinary things sometimes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I did not start this blog to:<\/p>\n

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    1. Blather on about my personal problems<\/li>\n
    2. To talk about the entire universe of ideas and information.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Part of the Award is to make note of other blogs that inspire me or make me think. Here they are in no particular order:<\/p>\n

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      1. Yarnstorm<\/a> creates a beautiful blog. The design of the blog itself is a work of art. Then I get the joy of looking at her photos and her projects and her color sense. It is fresh and well written. Her photographs celebrate the ordinary [work of women]. I especially like this post<\/a>.<\/li>\n
      2. Jan at Be*mused<\/a> has a wonderful sense of design. Her photographs are little works of art. They really exemplify her sense of color. Her title looks like the Bewitched logo from a zillion years ago. An example of her fabulous color sense is in this post<\/a>. I also like the photos she posts about projects that inspire her, which she follows up with examples of her interpretation.<\/li>\n
      3. Red Shoe Rambling<\/a>. I admire Deb’s perseverance in posting every day; she committed to doing it and she does it. She also has gorgeous photos. They are really different from Be*mused and Yarnstorm. I love the ones she posts of nature. I also appreciate her bravery in posting photos of when she was a kid!<\/li>\n
      4. I really like Laume’s Studio<\/a>, because she describes her projects and thoughts about them. Again, she posts wonderful photos. Laume looks at the world the way I do. She posts pictures of patterns that she sees in her daily life, such as this post<\/a> about the photo of fence.<\/li>\n
      5. I supposed I could have chosen more than 5, but in sticking with the rules, I decided to only choose 5. It was difficult, because there are a lot of bloggers I admire: Deirdre<\/a> (love the tabs on her blog and she always reads my blog. Also, she is a master painter), High Fiber Content<\/a> (Julie is fearless in trying new things. Her blog is also a great chronicle of all the various projects in her life), Fibermania<\/a> (Melody Johnson is so consistent and cheerful in her posting), I chose Pamdora’s Box<\/a>, because of her drawings and her sense of humor.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        You can read Kristen’s post about my blog is here<\/a>. You can find out about the Thinking Blogger Award in general here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Kristen awarded me the Thinking blogger Award. While it has taken me awhile to post this on my blog and write about it, I was really glad. I don’t think I have ever really shared my writing in any meaningful way beyond letters to friends, essays at school and my thesis. Receiving Kristen’s Thinking Blogger … Continue reading “Thinking Blogger Award”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373],"tags":[320,330],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-373","tag-journals","tag-other-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}