{"id":128,"date":"2008-10-19T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/back-to-school\/"},"modified":"2018-11-28T10:27:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:27:38","slug":"back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2008\/10\/back-to-school.html","title":{"rendered":"back to school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so excited to have been asked by our top distributor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brewersewing.com\/productview.jsp?sort=short&amp;EQ_class1=Patterns&amp;EQ_class2=For+Children&amp;EQ_brand=Oliver+%2b+S\">Brewer<\/a>, to give a talk at the School House Series at <a href=\"http:\/\/quilts.com\/home\/shows\/\">Quilt Market<\/a> this year. My presentation, &#8220;Oliver + S: more than just paper dolls,&#8221; will be held at 11:00 this Friday in room 372B. We&#8217;ve got slides, samples, some materials to hand out, a drawing for some gifts, and a few surprises as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pre2010\/presentation-start-761578.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pre2010\/presentation-start-761531.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>If you&#8217;re planning to attend the show, I hope you&#8217;ll join us for the presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so excited to have been asked by our top distributor, Brewer, to give a talk at the School House Series at Quilt Market this year. My presentation, &#8220;Oliver + S: more than just paper dolls,&#8221; will be held at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20687],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/presentation-start-761531.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-24","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1059,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2010\/08\/out-and-about.html","url_meta":{"origin":128,"position":0},"title":"out and about","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"August 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"If you live in the vicinity of Madison, WI (my home town!), come join me on September 1 at\u00a0Gayfeather Fabrics, 1521 Williamson St., at 2:00 PM for a little presentation about Oliver + S. 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