A Cute Little Bookstore in Agricola Street Books

I had a chance to visit a cute and cozy little used bookstore called Agricola Street Books. I was there during their book buy-back weekend, and while I waited for them to value my book for store credit, I made a quick walk around video, being very TikTok mind-oriented these days. When they were done, I basically had enough for the one thing I saw in the store I wanted, and made an impulse buy, something I rarely ever do. But for things Van Gogh, it’s easy to Tan Gogh and buy!

I edited it later, narrating it and putting the appropriately named Literature voice effect (voiceover) on it. It’s a female voice, but you see how effective and nice these voice effects are to keep a clean and even sound. And maybe you can understand why I prefer to use them rather than my own voice.

Charming little bookstore, don’t you think?

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Welcome to the New Atlantic Sewing Guild Online Library!

Welcome to the New ASG Online Library!

For those of you here who are interested in my fashion and sewing exploits, I am also a board member and webmaster of the Atlantic Sewing Guild.

I just started an online library of fashion and sewing documents for them on ISSUU (website and app), and shared the news with them via the post linked above.

Please go see if it might be useful to you as well!

My Nawlins Fabric Shopping Trip

I just got back from a fantastic vacation in Nawlins (New Orleans) where I spent 2 weeks with my Parents in their life to see what their life was like there, not zipping around, doing crazy things and such Nawlins is infamous for. Of course, I did a little fabric shopping while there. Being a bit out in the suburbs, I wasn’t close to a lot of fabric stores except Hancock Fabrics and the fabric sections in several Wal-mart stores. Yet, this was great because they had what I was looking for, which was a lot of licenced “geek” themed fabrics at affordable prices not found in Canada… or at least in Halifax where I live. As a result of all that, my fabric shopping haul this time probably won’t interest too many of my lady friends in the Atlantic Sewing Guild. Click to enlarge the thumbnails below to see in more detail. Please note I took pics of some out below a meshed patio cover so that there are shadows in the pictures. Those dark lines are not part of the print!

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