With all necessary apologies to Lord Vader, yes, I’ve succumbed to the Dark Side.
I had a birthday two weeks ago, and since I’m both picky and difficult to fit, I generally get money. I had, however, made it widely known that, as I’m constantly listening to audiobooks on my Palm, I’d really like to […]

I’ve had more than one person suggest to me that this is the time of the year when us good ol’ yarn shop owners (LYSO to those who prefer letters) get to relax a little after the mad rush of winter.  Um… no.  It would be lovely, but that certainly hasn’t been the case at […]

Ok.  Yes, I was dorking around on Ravelry before I left the office tonight and stumbled across this.  I’m not typically one to disrupt the clean (BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA) lines of my oh-so-atypical ride (yeah, I drive a white Civic) with bumper stickers, but this might warrant an exception.

Also, much thanks to everyone who posted comments at […]

As I mentioned once before, we had a fairly unpleasant review of our store on “Judy’s Book” some time ago.  I found out today that AT&T Yellow Pages pulled that review for their own website.  If you would be so kind, please, offer your own opinion of ThreadBear.
It was a great weekend with Terri Shea, […]

Well, there’s really no need to count, but it was a little bit of a love-fest last night at the Bear.  In honor of St. Valentine’s Day, Rob and I asked invited our massage therapist—naturopathic doctor, Candy Chamberlain—if she’d come in and give our customers and staff some “knitterly” massage basics.  We had a bit […]

Hi, all.  If you’re a fan of knitting podcasts, you may already have heard the recent episode of KnitTherapy in which KnitTherapists Kim and Kimber hit ThreadBear during Franklin’s visit last weekend.  They’re so great, and we were delighted to have them here.  I, however, made a minor gaffe:  Cottage Creations’ Rambling Rows Afghan is […]

Nah-nah… nah-nah-nah!
I got to spend the weekend with a cute photographer from Chicago! In boots!
Well, there was a sheep involved, too, but we won’t go there. Dolores sees. Dolores knows.
OH! MY! GOD! I seriously got to spend the weekend (or at least Friday and Saturday evenings) with Franklin Habit! Ok. Yes, he’s a doll. But […]

*pant* *wheeze* *pant* *gasp* *sigh*
No, it’s not one of those kinds of posts, I’m just exhausted. Let’s see, though. Four weeks ago Tuesday, we lost Connor. We had lots of grief to work through, and of course, we still had a business to run, so my grand plans of posting on a regular basis just […]

Yeah, as a matter of fact, I did miss the entire month of August. Yup, I even missed most of September. But guess what. I got to go see my mom. That made a whole lot of issues seem not quite so important. Love you, Moma!
I’m back at ThreadBear, now, though, and we’ve been through […]