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Are you tired of hunting through websites for the information you want?

If you're like me, you go out to a website looking for some specific information. And you want it NOW! You don't want to hunt through dozens of pages and obscure corners.

When we were creating the new website for Cedar Canyon Textiles, my webmaster did a fantastic job of yanking my chain when I started making things too complicated. (I'm so lucky to have someone that will save me from myself!)

My favorite feature on the new site is the Search tool. You'll find it on the Blog page. It has saved me a ton of time already and I'm sure it can do the same for you. Happy searching!

p.s. A great big welcome to all the new members of the Cedar Canyon Community. We've got lots of tools and resources for quilters, fiber artists and mixed-media enthusiasts.

New Website Spotlight: Shelly's Blog and the Search Tool

The blog on our website is my personal playground for posting ideas, answering questions, and occasionally ruminating about life in general. I started posting articles on the Blog 3 years ago, and over that time I've posted a treasure trove of information.

When the blog was new, it was easy to scroll around to see what was available. Now that it's several years old, it can be intimidating to look back and find things. (Even for me.) Fortunately, when our new site was launched, we added a Search function to the Blog page. I'm finding this function really helpful – and if it helps me, it should help you too! Here's how it works.

First, go to the new Cedar Canyon website and click on Blog (near the top on the right). That will pull up the most recent blog entries.

Enter the term or terms that you want to search on in the box, then click on Search. In return, you'll get a listing of every page on the site and every blog entry that contains the search term.

If you click on Rubbing Plate Portraits, you'll go directly to the blog entry that explains how to make a single image from a rubbing plate that can be turned into a quilt block (or whatever you want to do with it). If you click on Clean-Up Tips, you'll get the blog entry that discusses my best ideas for cleaning up brushes, stencils and rubbing plates.

Keep in mind that searching for "rubbing plate" will yield different results than "rubbing." The more detailed the search term, the less you see. In this example, the search results for "rubbing" include a link to the Video called Top Tips for Better Rubbings. The search for "rubbing plate" does not include this link.

Search results are sorted by date, with the most recent higher up in the list. To find older blog entries, I had to get down to the 2nd or 3rd page of the search results, but that was still much faster than trying wander through the archives. And I like finding things fast!

I hope you enjoy reading my Blog. If you want to read the articles as soon as they are posted, you can subscribe to our RSS feed. (Click on the link right under the search box and follow the instructions.) If there is a particular topic you would like to see covered in the blog, send me a note. I'd love to know what's on your mind.

Follow Us on Facebook

I'm (finally) venturing into the the world of Facebook, so I thought I should let you know we are out there. I have to confess that I've avoided this foray into social media for years. I already spend a lot of time on the computer (probably way too much!) and I was worried that this would be just one more thing that needed my attention.

But, I decided it was far more important to keep in touch with our friends and customers – and I'm finding that there are a LOT of you on Facebook. So what was I thinking???

Our address at Facebook is www.facebook.com/cedarcanyontextiles. A surprising number of you have already found us joined our page as a fan. Thank you so much, and I'm delighted to see you there. Please feel free to post photos of your latest paintstik-related projects. I would really love to see what you're working on.

See you there...

How to find us on the web

If you are not able to click through the links in the newsletter, you can paste the following addresses in your web browser.

Our web address is http://cedarcanyontextiles.com/

Our Blog is at http://cedarcanyontextiles.com/blog/

Our Contact Page is at http://cedarcanyontextiles.com/contact/ if you need to send us a message. (Or you can simply reply to this newsletter.)