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About Me

The Rag Boutique is a one woman operation, specializing in vintage & handmade goods, due to launch online in January '08. Come and check out the shop, but stay to explore our varied DIY how-to and resource guides. You can also look forward to our online magazine, 'The Monthy Rag', full of music & product reviews, interviews, news bits and more. Available in 2008, online only! See in the new year at the www.theragboutique.com!! You won't want to miss it!!myspace layouts :: Get this layout .

My Interests

Knitting, Arts & Crafts, Sewing, Crochet, Painting, Applique, Quilting, Clothing, Jewelry, Screening Printing, Shopping, DIY, etc etc.

I'd like to meet:

Each and every one of you!! One stitch at a time.

Music:

Terrier, The Unicorns, The Shins, Feist, Joanna Newsom, CocoRosie, Nuetral Milk Hotel, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, TV on the Radio, The Waking Eyes, Bright Eyes, The Decemberists, The Pixies, The Morning After, Matt Mays & the El Torpedo, Joel Plaskett & the Emergency, Mayor McCa, Sloan, Thrush Hermit, Cat Power, The Handsome Family, The Meligrove Band, The Bicycles, The Poos, Weezer, Mates of State, You Say Party We Say Die, Sigur Ros, The Smoking Popes, The Clash, Bananarama, The Go Go's, The B52's, The Pets, Hayden, Nick Drake, Fugazi, Saul Williams, God Speed! You Black Emperor, The Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth, The Breeders, Whale, Peaches, Blondie, The Pretenders, Tilly and the Wall,

Movies:

Sixteen Candles, Desperate Living, Pink Flamingos, Alice's Diner, Harold & Maude, The Breakfast Club, The Women, The Man with the Golden Arm, Kung Fu Hustle, Drug Store Cowboy, Jackie Brown, True Romance, Black Belt Jones, Cecil B. Demented, The Graduate, The Party, American Movie, The Science of Sleep, Pecker, Pretty in Pink

Books:

Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block, Organizing Your Craft Space by Jo Packham, The Happy Housewife by Heleen Van Royen, Making a Living in Craft: Everything You Need to Know to Build Your Business by Donald Clark, Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs, Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time by Betty Christiansen and Kiriko Shirobayashi, Stitch 'n Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker by Debbie Stoller, Stitch 'n Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook by Debbie Stoller, Stitch 'n Bitch Nation by Debbie Stoller, Sublime Stitching: Hundreds of Hip Embroidery Patterns and How-To By Jenny Hart and Alexandra Grablewski, Super Crafty: Over 75 Amazing How-To Projects by Susan Beal, Torie Nguyen, Rachel O'Rourke, and Cathy Pitters, City Chic: An Urban Girl's Guide to Livin' Large on Less by Nina Willdorf

Heroes:

Mommy entrepeneurs. They aren't just heroes.. they're SUPER HEROES!!

My Blog

Spring is here....almost!

It has been in the -30's here in Winnipeg, Manitoba and I can't wait to start seeing some green. While we're waiting for the new grass and red robins, why don't you take my customer survey. The Rag Bo...
Posted by the rag boutique on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:41:00 PST

Spring is here....almost!

It has been in the -30's here in Winnipeg, Manitoba and I can't wait to start seeing some green. While we're waiting for the new grass and red robins, why don't you take my customer survey. You can ta...
Posted by the rag boutique on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:49:00 PST

Hurray for 2008!

Happy New Years Everybody! I hope that 2007 was an excellent year for all of you! It was a long year of growth and renewal over at The Rag Boutique camp. I have been working with a new web devel...
Posted by the rag boutique on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:30:00 PST

Its a Winter Handmade Wonderland!

It's getting colder and colder by the second here in Winnipeg, Manitoba. My Irish, German, English, French heritage isn't designed to handle these temperatures, and it's only November!!&nbs...
Posted by the rag boutique on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:13:00 PST

NEW PICTURES

HELLO EVERYONE... I hope you like the new look of the shop's myspace page blog. I don't know about you, but I really hate updating and re-customizing. arg. A web developer, I am not, ...
Posted by the rag boutique on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:16:00 PST