New Website In the Works!

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Domains, Heritage Basket Studio, Heritage Basket Studio & Chair Caning, Website Development

Thanks to the extreme generosity of a very good friend and fellow basket weaver and chair caner, today I will be buying a domain name and webhosting for a website. I have been studying on everything associated with a static website, which works much like the current blog, with differences and I already know that I will have to learn some coding to make some parts of it happen.

The biggest part is that I can actually offer baskets that I have for sale through the website. Of course I will keep and maintain the blog as usual as an integral part of the website as well. For me it will be nice to see my business name as my domain name. I am certain as with the blog in the beginning there will be a learning curve associated with it.

The most exciting part for me is that I will be able to show the baskets I have for sale. The site will also show chairs that I will have for sale as well with the various styles of seat weaving and hand caning.

If any of you have helpful tips and suggestions for website creation don’t be bashful.

      

SIGNS OF SPRING AT RVCC

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Claudia Gibson Catering, Heritage Basket Studio & Chair Caning, Rockfish Valley Community Center, Signs of Spring at RVCC, The Secret Garden

Well at last Spring is here, and one day I needed a break from hand caning, and decided to go for a walk with my camera. This is the chair that was finished a Hitchcock Style Hand Caned Chair

   

As a reward for finishing this chair and a well needed walk, here are some of the sites around the community center where my Basketry & Chair Caning Studio is located, Afton Virginia.

RVCC ~ Rockfish Valley Community Center

The following pictures are of Claudia Gibson Catering, the most beautiful entrance at the center, located in the rear of the center and also the rear entrance that takes you to my studio. I love to walk around back there as it reminds me of my one true passion besides basketry and chair caning and that is flower gardening.

     

    

    

Around the corner from Claudia’s literally, is where I like to go, which is tucked in between the wings of the old school, in which the community center is located.. This place I refer to as the “Secret Garden” of which Claudia’s is the entrance to!

    

Beautiful Azalea’s on your way to the “Secret Garden” along the Lavender Bearded Iris border

    

    

FACE BOOK BUSINESS PAGE COMING SOON

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baskets, Chairs for Sale, Facebook Business Page, Heritage Basket Studio & Chair Caning

With the encouragement of several people including my good friend Katherine Kreymborg-Wilson of Weaving Restorations, South Hampton, NY, & Cathryn Peters of www.wickerwoman.com.  I have decided to start a Face Book Business page.

I am trying to figure out just how to do it, really not sure what I am doing, if any of you that have done this have any tips, tricks or pointers I would greatly appreciate hearing from you.

In a way it is very similar to doing my blog, but in a much more complicated way, it looks like to me.

Soon I am hoping to have some baskets and chairs that I hope to post pictures of to the blog “Heritage Basket Studio” that is linked to this blog, which will show basket and chairs that I have in the studio for sale. They can be purchased by contacting me directly for information, as WordPress.com does not allow selling thru their blogs.

Currently for sale in the studio is a Walnut Mule Eared Rocker with a herringbone twill splint bottom seat, and soon to be completed Black Hitchcock style chair with gold stenciling hand caned chair.

 

I will be adding chairs to the list as the coming weeks go by, as I have chairs that need to be moved out of the studio that I collected over the years, and need to make room for others.

 

The coming weeks will bring new basket designs, and market style baskets with and without cane braided handles. It has taken a while to adjust to actually getting time in my new studio, however this has been rectified, and I should be devoting a considerable amount of time to working in the studio, to be able to build a routine now.

Nearly complete is a customers set of hand caned chairs, the pictures below show the detail “BEFORE & AFTER”, all that is left is the binder to cover the holes and color matching of the seats. These chairs has several points of weakness when they came into the studio, they were missing a complete back row of caning, short front row, and two short side rows.