Posted by Barely Knit Together on Jul 31, 2009 in
People Are Idiots
I keep hearing this term “mommy blogger” bandied about lately, and it makes my breasts want to shrivel up and hide. Mommy. Blogger.
And probably many of the writers out there who blog and are moms kind of feel the same way – it sounds so vacuous, like the empty womb my super-sized children vacated.
But apparently, [...]
Tags: 1938 Media, BlogHer, Jessica Gottlieb, Loren Feldman, lynchburg, mommy bloggers, Motrin, selling your soul when you probably already have too much shit, swag, VA, Writing
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Jul 28, 2009 in
The Soap Box
I’m going to take you back to an earlier time in my life, a time before I committed to buying coffee only from local shops.
I used to stop every other day occasionally at a particular Starbucks in my town, specifically the one on Wards Road in Lynchburg. It wasn’t really in my neighborhood, but it [...]
Tags: customer service, how to win customers and influence people, lynchburg, Starbucks
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Jul 21, 2009 in
Writing
I just got this idea off of Delicate Flower and decided since I’m trying to prepare for Indie Art Market I better find a lazy way to post. Like you didn’t already know too much about me, here goes:
Rules: 1. Respond and rework; answer the questions on your blog, replace one question that you dislike with [...]
Tags: indie art market, lazy ass post, lynchburg, nuno felt
Posted by Barely Knit Together on May 13, 2009 in
Wordless Wednesday
Spuknof is a great local punk band. The singer’s son goes to my kid’s preschool. Click on the photo for an insane music video. Vaguely David Lynch-esque. Or something.
Tags: found poetry, honeysuckle, lynchburg, punk bands, spuknof, virginia, Wordless Wednesday
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Feb 6, 2009 in
Fiber Friday,
Knitting
Growing up, when I heard the word “knitting” I thought of those haloed, plastic-feeling acrylic baby blankets, old ladies in rocking chairs, and the world’s most unflattering sweaters. If you know enough to have found this blog, chances are you know the needle arts have come a long way.
Not only do we now have thousands [...]
Tags: bedford, fiber art, Fiber Friday, Knitting, lynchburg, LYS, roanoke, virginia, yarn, yarn store, Yarn Theory