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Changing It Up - Week One
August 3, 2009 ( Read more... ) -
The Thing I Said I Would Never Do
I have done the Thing I Said I Would Never Do.
Ever. Never ever.
Throughout my life, I have been willing to walk, swim, cycle, dance, aerobicize, drip sweat on gym equipment, and even crawl on my belly like a reptile, but I would not do the dreaded, evil, most cruel and heinous of physical exercises…run.
As a teenager, P.E. classes that required ( Read more... ) -
Off Their Rockers - (movie review)
Picture your grandmother sitting at the kitchen table, content as can be with a hot cup of tea and a crossword puzzle. Now picture her center-stage, basking in the bright heat of a spot light, leaning on her cane and brazenly delivering suggestively raunchy lyrics like “It’s always tease, tease, tease / You’re happy when I’m on my ( Read more... ) -
Wireless Walls
Sometime in June 2007, a co-worker sent me an email invitation to sign-up with a social-networking website called “Facebook.” Co-incidentally, about a week before this, I heard a CBC Radio program panel discussing the positives and negatives of Facebook and its cyber-culture phenomenon status. The panel’s consensus on the merit of ( Read more... ) -
Lion Brand redeemed (I suppose)
Okay, here's Lion Brand's response to my email ( Read more... ) -
Lion Brand boycott
I am extremely upset with Lion Brand Yarns this morning. While perusing their latest email newsletter, I came across a link to the winners of their recent slideshow contest on Instructables.com.
This disturbing monstrosity was one of the winners:
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Knit store ideas - more brain-picking
Hey all. I had a few hours to come for air this afternoon, so I finally responded properly to the "Yarn store" thread contributors. And, no, I haven't made it down to the Button and Needlework Boutique to check out their yarn stock. I know the owners, Kim and Mike, very well...in fact since their very beginning days in a corner of Satin Moon ( Read more... ) -
Knitting resolutions
Here we are - January again. Time to think about being a better person this year...well...at least a better knitter. Okay...more organized knitter anyway.
Resolution: to finish my UFOs and use up at least half my stash before buying new yarn. Phew. Did I actually say that out loud? It's going to be a tall order considering I received a lovely ( Read more... ) -
Need your knitter's opinion
So, here's the deal...I'm beginning a business plan for the ultimate yarn store ( Read more... )
