http://crowingram.threadbearfiberarts.com Living in Color at ThreadBear Fiber Arts Studio Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:53:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I brace myself for the final day of our 2008 Fall/Winter buying trip cum mini-vacation, I'm struck with two things:  how incredibly fortunate I am to be in an industry so full of fun, funny, sincere, and sincerely talented people that I get to spend so much intensive time ... http://crowingram.threadbearfiberarts.com/2008/06/09/good-morning-sunshine/ As previously mentioned, we'll be off to Columbus later this week to attend TNNA's NeedleArts Market where most of North America's yarn shop owners and buyers purchase much of their product for the upcoming fall/winter season.  To us, that means rearranging schedules, packing up models that we've had on display ... http://crowingram.threadbearfiberarts.com/2008/06/02/columbus-here-we-come/ Really.  I do. It's also now twelve hours and forty minutes since I walked in this morning, and our sales meeting is just winding down.  We will, therefore, go home, eat dinner, fall down, and come in tomorrow and get the newsletter out.  If you're watching your Inbox, be prepared.  There's interesting ... http://crowingram.threadbearfiberarts.com/2008/05/21/love-ya-mean-it/ Between the rep meeting that's going on today (as I write, actually—they're up front working on getting lunch ordered, so I thought I'd slip in a quick post) and the newsletter going out tonight, my day is deeply swamped.  But I'm playing with YARN.  That helps a lot. I won't go ... http://crowingram.threadbearfiberarts.com/2008/05/21/i-just-love-yarn/ Yup. That pretty much says it. Though, in all honesty, I've not known too many paper hangers, and I'd think most one-armed persons would genuinely try to avoid the job. My sincere thanks to those of you who've noticed and commented on the updates to the looks at Rob's ... http://crowingram.threadbearfiberarts.com/2008/05/21/busy-as-a-one-armed-paper-hanger/ 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 ... http://crowingram.threadbearfiberarts.com/2008/04/23/no-i-am-your-father/ You're Watership Down! by Richard Adams Though many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you're actually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink their assumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they build their houses. You might be one of ... http://crowingram.threadbearfiberarts.com/2008/04/20/who-am-i/ 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 ... http://crowingram.threadbearfiberarts.com/2008/03/17/the-off-season/ 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 ... http://crowingram.threadbearfiberarts.com/2008/03/05/aroo/ 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 ... http://crowingram.threadbearfiberarts.com/2008/03/03/threadbear-reviews-and-making-a-new-friend/