Category Archives: General Administrative

Apologies for the few posts lately.  I had to make a trip to Minneapolis to help out my mother who has recently been released from the hospital. I’ll be here for a few weeks, and will gradually get caught up. … Continue reading →

The rather contentious Administrative Council meeting at the Lujblijana OIDFA Congress highlighted fundamental disconnects both within the Belgian Congress Organizing Committee (BCOC) and between the BCOC and the OIDFA sponsors. To make a very long story short, a reorganization of … Continue reading →

Today I got a note from Pinterest saying that they are removing the mapping feature from their boards. I’ve been using this on the LaceNews Pinterest site, http://tinyurl.com/n4y49b2, especially to map the location of lace museums. I was never particularly … Continue reading →

Today LaceNews passed 400,000 hits on the blog!  Thanks to all the readers for your wonderful support.  I’m looking forward to keeping this up for many years. Laurie

I’ve done some revision to the Lace Event Calendar page https://lacenews.net/lace-event-calendars/.  You can now pick up my big EXCEL spreadsheet which shows a complete list of lace days divided by country and by month. Click on the tabs at the … Continue reading →

Hope everyone is at least occasionally glancing at the lace events on the LaceNews Calendar page (http://tinyurl.com/mkv3f3a). After having 67 events in April, 148 in May, 161 in June, and 42 in July, there are only 2 in August!  At … Continue reading →

LaceNews finally has a Facebook page, http://facebook.com/lacenews. It is actually a subpage of my regular facebook account, http://facebook.com/laurie.waters.10. I’d like to thank all the lace friends I have on my personal page, and just suggest that you might find it … Continue reading →

In the past few days I’ve been exploring Pinterest to see what value this  might add to the LaceNews resources.  I’ve recently been working with a software engineer to help get my website up and running, and he suggested I … Continue reading →

Hurricane Sandy is about to make landfall along the New Jersey coastline in the United States. New York will be strongly affected, in fact most Northeastern coastal areas have been evacuated. Wind gusts over 100 miles per hour are expected … Continue reading →

Update 5/25/12.  Unfortunate crash of the old computer when I was transferring some stuff. In for repair 😦 Update 5/20/12.  Almost done with the computer switch.  I’ll try to get something out to the blog later today!  Thanks for your … Continue reading →