The IT Issue

No, IT doesn’t, in this case, stand for Internet Technology. It’s that little word, “it,” that we all know by its cute little appearance. See? Isn’t IT cute? <<<<<
And then, there’s

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Love these calendar downloads!

It’s a ritual, with me, picking out the calendar for the next year. It has to be JUST right. For the last 2 years, I’ve chosen a calendar that has photos of paths… wonder what that says about this part of my life?
So for 2010, I am going to pretend, just pretend, that I have [...]

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God Bless the Web Masters

I am now going on my 10th month of renovating my main web site. Although I have maintained it myself (well, with the kind assistance of Charlie, Forrest, Deb and others) for over mumblemumble years, this is the first major renovation I’ve undertaken.
About time you’re probably saying. Too Good to be Threw has gotten pigglywiggly, [...]

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A business plan in 3 words: funny thing, it worked.

You know I preach about having a business plan to guide you in decisions on your consignment or resale shop? And give you all those links and even the Business Valuation Kit to help you develop a fine, detailed, well-considered plan for your shop?  Well, I thought you’d enjoy, on this my shop-opening anniversary, about [...]

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How Strong are YOUR Passwords?

Flying home from the annual consignment, resale, and thrift industry Conference I had a few hours in Atlanta so I checked my email, Sharing on TGtbT.com, and so on, blithely spewing

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Love Loss and What I Wore: The Giveaway

Just finished reading the book by Ilene Beckerman by that title, and realized that I too remember what I was wearing when.
Ilene uses her whimsical illustrations to tell her life story. While I can’t draw, I can remember. And when I start to, I am astonished at how much I do remember about my wardrobe [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day, Mom

Mothers are complicated. And they don’t get less so, for having gone to that great mudroom in the sky.
So Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. Thanks for leading me on my career path, thanks for the sense of humor and love of nature. Thanks for Sunday

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Whatever happened to May Day?

When I was a tot, we celebrated May Day. We made little mini-baskets out of woven construction paper, put a few spring blossoms and a loving note in them, and hung them on friend’s door knobs early in the morning (or put them on their stoops if we didn’t get up early enough to claim [...]

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How this consignment story takes me back!

Back in the 1950’s and the ’60’s and even later, it was not at all uncommon for a woman to have little or no spending money under her private control.
This was brought home to me as the only girl-child of a fiercely independent woman, most vividly in my mother’s consignment shops.
One of my mother’s shops, [...]

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If I could sew

If I could sew, these are what I’d make. Based on children’s drawings…which is kinda the way I see the world.
And the fact that the artist uses recycled fabrics is just udderly wonderful.

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All I want for Christmas

The best part of Christmas shopping is, of course, finding stuff YOU want. After all, who knows you better?
Here’s what I want and/or need, depending on your definitions:
Passionflower vine (see photo): I have a

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Well, no sequin sheath for me, come New Year’s

For those of you who were there when they strapped the tattle-tale on me, it’s been almost 8 weeks now that I have been expending 1000 more calories daily than I’ve been eating. Balancing my carbs and proteins and fats. Getting the hour of activity in (I’ve been excused from the 10,000-steps-a-day requirement what with [...]

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What flower are you?

This is the type of question that occurs to one in the middle of the night, right after the realization that oh lordie if I don’t get any sleep I’ll be worthless tomorrow and my to-do list is ninety zillion items long and did I remember….?
Well, Auntie Kate to the rescue. One less thing to [...]

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The 4th’s a family holiday, and God love ‘em.

Well, the 4th is almost over (‘cept for the fireworks, which is of course the WHOLE POINT.) Have you had your fill, for a while, of family?
Gotta love ‘em, ain’t allowed to shoot ‘em. This lady is one I’d be proud to claim in my family. Couldn’t you just HUG her? [...]

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I’ve been meaning to tell you….

Do you know your neighbors? I don’t.
Oh, I do know the lady to the south, and like her. To the north? An extended family lives there… several generations, whose language I cannot identify, yet alone understand. They have a nice dog, though. Across the street? One of a half-dozen folks I know.
A woman around the [...]

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