Watch out for Washington Gas Scam
Posted in Uncategorized - Written by Katie on February 7, 2013 - 0 CommentsThe weirdest thing is happening. Our old store phone number, 301-962-8181, which is no longer in service and is not a working number, is somehow being used in a scam. Over the last week, I’ve gotten a few calls asking about my old phone number. People are getting repeated calls from that number and someone posing as a Washington Gas [...]
Carpet Getting High-Tech
Posted in Uncategorized - Written by Katie on September 20, 2012 - 0 CommentsIt is very very VERY rare, that the my world of rugs intersects with my husband’s world of geekery (he is an IT guy), but this recent DailyTech article might change that. A team of researchers out of the University of Manchester is working on a carpet that is capable of detecting a person’s walk patterns. It [...]
What’s in a Name?
Posted in Uncategorized - Written by Katie on July 16, 2012 - 0 CommentsWe moved approximately 4 years ago from a small shop just a half mile north of here to our bigger shop here on Howard Avenue. While we knew it would cause a shake up for some of our customers, we had no idea that it would exasperate some to no end. Why? Because they couldn’t [...]
Feta Cheese Commercial Captures Culture Perfectly!
Posted in Uncategorized - Written by Katie on July 10, 2012 - 0 CommentsI’m not Greek and cannot be certain of all things Greek, but I can completely relate and understand and laugh out loud at Athenos Feta’s latest ad campaign. Women in swimsuits are accused of being in pornos and a woman in a red dress is told that she dresses like a prostitute. Extreme? Yes! Funny? Yes! [...]
Shahs of Sunset – I Can’t Look Away
Posted in Uncategorized - Written by Katie on April 3, 2012 - 0 CommentsThis weekend while Bravo played reruns of the new show, Shahs of Sunset, I tuned in just to check it out and instantly got sucked in by the glitz, glamour, and vitrol. It is such a horrifying trainwreck that you can’t look away. Equally horrifying to the drama in Shahs of Sunset is the lack of Persian carpets seen [...]
Decorate like The Godfather
Posted in Uncategorized - Written by Katie on March 8, 2012 - 0 CommentsLast week, AMC celebrated the 40th anniversary of The Godfather movies by running all three over and over and over. Of course, I had to watch them over and over and over as well. Part II of The Godfather trilogy is by far my favorite, partially because I love a young Robert Deniro, but also because [...]
I Think Knot
Posted in Uncategorized - Written by Katie on February 23, 2012 - 0 CommentsA rug recently came into our shop for repair, and it was something that even my dad had never seen before. It was a rug that was started using one type of knot technique and then completed using another. On the surface of the rug you can’t tell a thing. It looks totally normal. However, when [...]
Stairway to Carpet Heaven
Posted in Uncategorized - Written by Katie on February 1, 2012 - 0 CommentsOur newest, most exciting acquisition this month is not a new rug, but a staircase on wheels. Not sure what it is officially called, but to me, it is heaven. Now I can get rugs down off the racks myself without having to wait for help from someone with far more upper body strength. Looks like all it took to shatter [...]
White House Library Rug
Posted in Uncategorized - Written by Katie on December 1, 2011 - 0 CommentsRecently, photos of the White House decorated for the holidays were released. Normal people are probably ooing and ahhing over the trees, the ornaments, and the marzipan miniature of the White House, but not me. I’m drooling over the rug in the White House library. Just look at it peeking out from under the Christmas [...]
Yarn Organization!
Posted in Uncategorized - Written by Katie on November 11, 2011 - 0 CommentsThere is a good chance that my next post will be from an insane asylum somewhere, as organizing our ginormous knots of yarn which we use for rug repairs is making me crazy. Recently, I decided that our organizational system (I use the term loosely) needed an overhaul, so I got down to business then [...]
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