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October 4, 2023

Using AI to Write Product Descriptions

Archie Nadon / Resources artificial intelligence, ChatGPT /

Exploring how ChatGPT can help you with product descriptions, merging AI capabilities with creative flair, to craft compelling narratives that save you time and spare you agony.

woman at counter in a craft shop
October 2, 2023

Rosie Johnson — Ku’Ku’Kwes’ Mi’kmaw Craft and Design

Archie Nadon / Craft shops and galleries Cape Breton, Indigenous, Nova Scotia /

Rosie Johnson opened her shop two years ago during the COVID 19 pandemic when the world slowed down and stopped. For anyone who knows Rosie, slowing down and stopping doesn’t come easily to her. It seemed like a good time to take a big step, like getting her craft business out of her bedroom and into an actual store of its own. 

woman displaying textile art
September 12, 2023

Josephine Clarke

Elaine Mandrona / Textile arts

You might say that Josephine Clarke’s textile career has taken a couple of sharp turns and is now way off the beaten path.

horse walking towards woman
July 19, 2023

Catherine Moir

Elaine Mandrona / Painting Cape Breton, painting /

After 50 years as an artist and now in her 70s, Catherine is feeling an urgency to sell more of her paintings.

Tiffany in her craft room
July 13, 2023

Tiffany MacIntyre

Archie Nadon / Jewellery Cape Breton, jewellery /

She started out making elegant beaded bracelets for the medic alert she used to have to wear, but one thing led to another and then the magic started to happen.

Woman holding up one end of a quilt while talking over a microphone
July 3, 2023

Quintessential Quilts

Elaine Mandrona / Quilting

Quilting is an outlet for creativity, specifically the creativity of women, and the vast majority of quilters are women. We attended an exhibit and a quilting work session.

man and woman laughing with a small boat shaped little free library
June 28, 2023

The Petit-de-Grat Book Nook

Archie Nadon / Builders, Out and About, Practical crafts community project /

A little free library in Petit-de-Grat would have to be shaped like a boat, right, and it should be able to take a beating whether it be from vandals or hurricanes.

man with CNC machine
May 10, 2023

Pinpoint Metal Art

Elaine Mandrona / Metal art CNC plasma cutter /

Pinpoint Metal Art’s workshop smells like woodsmoke, hot oil and the air after a thunderstorm. Their big, high tech CNC (Computer Numerical Control) plasma cutter is the first thing you see walking in and the focal point of their work together

woman behind counter at a chocolate shop
May 8, 2023

Just a small town chocolatier

Elaine Mandrona / Chocolatier cafe, Cape Breton, Chocolate, food, St Peters /

Cindy Walker says chocolate is umami. That’s a Japanese word for “essence of deliciousness” and “overall harmonious state of perfection.” Now all I can think about is how good chocolate tastes.

ribbon skirt with mother dressed as lawyer with child
April 16, 2023

Astua’sij — Where paths meet — an exhibit

Elaine Mandrona / Craft exhibit Indigenous /

On April  6, we attended  Astua’si — “Where Paths Meet ” — an exhibit of emerging indigenous artists at the J. Franklin Wright Gallery in Port Hawkesbury.

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