Hi, welcome to the Atherton Family Notes.
This blog is intended to be about the events happening in our family, but occasionally we post items of more general interest.
The particular Athertons in question are: Ken Atherton, Sandi Atherton, Carissa Atherton, Celia Atherton, and Sadie Atherton. All of the posts are written by one of the five of us.
This site has been active since late December 2008, but contains posts from the previous incarnation of Atherton Family Notes which was hosted at wordpress.com. We actually got a lot more traffic over there because we were integrated with the wordpress.com tag system, which meant that you could click on any tag on anyone’s blog and potentially see a link to our blog, which was a nice feature. However, there were lots of things we couldn’t control on that site, so we moved to our own privately hosted site. Our favorite addition is the little feedjit.com widget over on the right side, which shows the traffic that hits our site from all around the world. Over time, we’ve seen hits from every continent but Antarctica. 
Here are some links to the most popular tags on our blog:
Kirigami – This link includes the most popular page on the whole blog, the (semi-)famous 3d kirigami snowflake pattern. Between it’s brief stint on wordpress.com and it’s new location here, it’s generated about 2000 hits since December 2008. If you search for “kirigami pattern” on Google, this page appears in the 6th and 9th slot out of about 43,000 results as of January 2008, making it pretty popular in its niche. If you visit the comments, there is a link to a site showing how to make this project without a Cricut as well.
Sure-Cuts-A-Lot – We bought a Cricut electronic cutting machine in mid-2008 and it has become one of our favorite crafting tools. It’s even better when used with the program called Sure-Cuts-A-Lot (available here), which allows you to create your own patterns to use. We’ve shared a few projects for this already and will be adding more soon.
Digital Scrapbooking, Paper Scrapbooking – Ken, Carissa, Celia, and Sadie have taken an interest in scrapbooking over the last few years and we’ve been posting the results. Ken works mainly in digital and the girls like cutting and pasting.
Germany – While we’ve all spent most of our lives living in Indianapolis, we did live overseas for a few years. During our first stint in Germany, we maintained a site called “Survivor Germany”. We have archived as many of these old posts as we could find on this site as well.
France – Our second overseas stint was in France. We haven’t yet posted very many of the posts we wrote at this time, but we’re working on it. This tag also includes some travelling we did in France while living in Germany.
We have made an annual Christmas video since 2000 and since 2002, we’ve also made an accompanying website. Most of these sites are currently unavailable on the internet, but two of them are still around:
The Atherton’s 2008 Christmas Website
The Athertons’s 2007 Christmas Website
Thanks for visiting and feel free to comment about anything you see!
