Crowing Ram

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…

Well, duh! Carson Kressley, of course. And what to my wondering (note: not wandering) eye should appear? No, not Regis Philbin, but our own tweeked out Queer. Lord, child. I got up this morning ready to renew my commitment to diet, exercise, and moderately clean living, and WHAM! Regis is taking the day off, and…

Summer is a time for regrouping at ThreadBear—this year more so than most. In general (that’s my qualifier, folks; this doesn’t hold true in every shop), summer is a time of slower local traffic as folks head out to their cabins or lake houses, gramma’s for a week or two, into their gardens, or wherever…