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Ok. The first person who asks if my fat a$$ is actually running marathon gets whacked in the head with a drop spindle. No, the point is that I’ve been trying a) to work harder in 2007, and more importantly b) to work smarter. I’m actually getting much more accomplished, but I have not, yet,…

I’m here, and oddly enough, I really haven’t been anywhere. Well, I’ve been to ThreadBear, and there are lots of folks who would envy me that. I get to play in fiber every day. I have a wonderful staff who make my work infinitely easier. I have a phenomenal clientele who—often against my own judgement—seem…

You know, whoever said that summer is deadtime in yarn shops hasn’t spent a whole lot of time in my company. I feel like I’ve been scrambling since the first blades of grass started poking through the snow in my front yard, and only in the last few weeks have I started to feel like…

Just as most of my in-person customers are used to me occasionally redesigning the layout of the retail store, so too are many of ThreadBear’s long-term mail order customers used to the idea that occasionally the website gets a nice little nip and tuck. Well, if you hadn’t already noticed, there’s been a little nipping…

God knows retail is fickle, and only fashion is moreso. Is it just me, though, or has Pantone® gone seriously soft this year? I hadn’t really noticed until Rob‘s newsletter went out this week and I started looking at Fall as a here-and-now kind of thing, but their Fall Forecast for 2006 is kind of…

kristi and otis write on 07/17/2006 10:32pmLooks great! I’m on bedrest for a couple days and am in search of new scenary – those sofas look like they could do the trick! matt writes:Good lord, woman! Get to the shop immediately before those animals smother you in your sleep for taking up so much of…

I dood it! Yet again, I’ve warped our poor little yarn shop into a mad alter-ego of itself. Ok. It’s not that dramatic. It’s just better—hopefully. In all seriousness, as stock rolls through, we’re constantly moving bits and pieces of shelves and tables around to accomodate new merchandise or displays. Eventually, we look around and…

After I mentioned Mercury being in retrograde recently, a particularly astrologically informed friend forwarded a bit of potential upcoming celestial prediction. Mercury retrograde periods are notoriously well-known for communication snafus as well as difficulty and/or lapses in decision-making. Yet with Jupiter also turning direct, no time will be better for looping back to old contacts,…

If you ever feel like your voice is simply never heard… if you feel like the people running your country are simply out of touch with reality… if you feel like there must be something that you can do to make your federal government hear that our lives and our families are meaningful and real,…

Odd timing at ThreadBear. Someone told me recently to be expecting the unexpected since Mercury is in retrograde. I’m not sure if that’s the issue, but things are definitely askew. For one thing, I, the great and true Aries starter, am currently in the process of getting quite a few things finished instead. Sabrina’s on…