A couple of items for the weekend…

 Happy weekend!  I hope your Valentine’s Day was nice.  My husband totally suprised me with three dozen red roses!  One dozen for each daughter.  So sweet!

Wanted to keep you up to date on changes at Sewing Mamas.  I’ve selected the new “Team Sewing Mama” which is a fancy word for mods.  I have one team working on migrating the old album to the new, Coppermine album.  I’m hoping to preserve all your lovely photos and have something that works better for all of us!

As we’ve discussed for many months, onFebruary 15th, only sponsors can post threads in the Boutique Forum.  We’ll have an ISO thread for sponsors and members who are looking for something.  We’ll have a “Yard Sale” once a month where anyone can post anything.

Please vote!  I’m noticing a lot of off topic posts here. I’d like to make it easier to find the sewing posts, and I’d love your input and help. There are a few options I can review with you. If you have another one, please lmk!

The mission here at Sewing Mamas is:

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Sewingmamas.com is a forum of (mostly) women who sew at all levels and are looking for a place to chat about sewing, life, and kids. We have a decidedly natural/attached parenting viewpoint and learn from each other, inspire one another and have fun!

So to that end, I’d like to make a change but don’t see quite how to do it. Here are some options and I’m open to any of them:

1. An extra thread field, where once you post your thread you can choose from a list what the thread is about (general sewing, embroidery, crafting, NSR-not sewing related). I had this going for awhile but I agree that it made things really messy. This is not searchable however, so you’d still have to read the little notes to see if it’s sewing or not. You can’t filter out just the sewing stuff.

2. Different post icons. Instead of the spam, help, ot, and different smilies we have I can create small icons that say ’sewing’ ‘embroidery’, etc.

3. Have a new forum inside Material Girls, where you can post parenting and OT stuff. I wouldn’t be really uptight about it, I know we’re pretty organic here and things flow to and from sewing and parenting. We’ve gotten so big, I like the idea of a separate forum myself but I know it was a concern to some.

4. another idea?