{"id":2145,"date":"2011-04-24T15:26:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T19:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2011-04-24T16:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T20:00:01","slug":"what-have-we-been-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/what-have-we-been-up-to\/","title":{"rendered":"What have we been up to?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So our posting has been a bit sporadic \u2013 that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re off that map we\u2019ve actually been quite busy! There\u2019s a lot to say and we haven\u2019t really had the required time to properly present it. So \u2013 here we go with a new series of blog entries which will lead up to another newsletter, followed but some fun announcements and special issues this summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2146\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Woodworker Michael Pietras\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MG_0213-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"Woodworker Michael Pietras\" width=\"195\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MG_0213-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MG_0213-143x150.jpg 143w, https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MG_0213-977x1024.jpg 977w, https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MG_0213.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>What have we been up to? Well we have a new guy on the team, Michael Pietras who\u2019s back to Hopewell Township from the Cayman Islands. Mike will be offering a diverse set of skills including furniture design, joinery, restoration, carving, finishing, and repair. He&#8217;ll also be adding a modern twist to our portfolio including the implementation of concrete, glass, and some other unique materials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2147 alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Dana Oxenberg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MG_0229-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"Dana Oxenberg\" width=\"180\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MG_0229-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MG_0229-150x134.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MG_0229-1024x920.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MG_0229.jpg 1596w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>Seems we have a new shop girl hanging around quite a bit, Dana Oxenberg has been inventive with jewelry boxes and some other projects. Dana is a unique and independent creature, one who enjoys organization and putting her OCD to good use. Dana made her debut in our last newsletter; and also traveled to NYC with us last week to reveal another fun project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We\u2019ve got a ton of restorations going on, a few pending carving projects, and oh we\u2019re gonna be on national television hitting a potential of 97 million homes \u00a0through Animal Planet this summer. We just finished a day on set for the reveal of a unique commission for their new show \u201cTanked.\u201d When the show airs this summer turtle will make more sense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More details of a lot of projects are pending!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So our posting has been a bit sporadic \u2013 that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re off that map we\u2019ve actually been quite busy! There\u2019s a lot to say and we haven\u2019t really had the required time to properly present it. So \u2013 here we go with a new series of blog entries which will lead up to another newsletter, followed but some fun announcements and special issues this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}