My fabric supplier in the Netherlands has an annual house fair on the last Sunday and Monday of August. So
far I had never been there, but this time they were also offering a workshop
on how to employ social media for the enhancement of one’s business. As I have
been a more or less reluctant user of social media so far, but had been told I need
to be more active on that field, I thought it
would be interesting to participate. A few conferences with my husband and
my son regarding the possibilities of organizing such a trip in the middle of
school vacation while my husband has to work, and we came up with a special
arrangement.
On Sunday I
took my son to visit his grandparents for a few days, hopped on the train and
went up to Holland
I was lucky
to have chosen the quiet day of the house fair to be there, and could leisurely
stroll through the stacks and stacks of bolts of fabrics. No longer am I
tempted by these, as I do not employ commercially printed fabrics in my quilts
any more. But it is still breathtaking for any fabric lover to have this
abundance of supplies lieing in front of you.
I did fill a shopping cart with lots of other items, though - batting, pins, two bolts of black fabric for the classes in Amish Quilting that I will be teaching in the fall, and everything will be shipped home.
The
workshop was interesting, and I do feel that I know a bit more about facebook
now. Not nearly enough to feel as if I am a competent user, but… Being a
data-sceptical German, however, and especially in the midst of the current and
heated debate about spying out of online communication by various secret
services, I still don’t feel like I will ever come to love facebook. But I blog
(and I like doing that!) – I use the internet for other things – so I guess
there is no way out, one has to howl with the pack.
I was never
expecting to boost my self-consciousness through being a member (which a
recently published study says doesn’t work anyway), rather I had joined to find
a few lost friends. And it worked indeed. I do enjoy reading pabout activities
of my friends that I might not have heard of otherwise – Annie posted a list of
desserts she was making for ‘a few friends’ that sounded like she was hosting a
batallion of football players. But I wonder why people feel the need to share
cutesy images of kittens rolled up in a tulip, and would rather live without
some of the wise sayings that are being shared all over the place… Fills up
one’s screen and feels a bit like spam mail in your e-mail in-box.
So after
this workshop I know it is time to really figure out how to use facebook to
promote my fabrics and my art.
But today
and tomorrow I will dedicate myself to museums, totally.
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