Hey, friends, hey, it's Lisa from Black
Women's Stitch and the Stitch Please
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And like I say every week, this is a very
special episode, because this episode is
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none other than the hostess with the
mostest, the co -host of the Audace SOTY
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podcast with Julian Collins.
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She is a Bernina ambassador.
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She is a content, I wouldn't say content
creator, she's a content queen.
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She is...
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an advisor and a coach and a mom and a
beloved wife and all of those things.
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And as if that was not enough running her
own business, et cetera, having, having a
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TV show on plus size fashion.
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If that wasn't enough, she said, you know
what I want to do?
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I want to host Atlanta Frog Tales because
I have so much time in my schedule that
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I can throw this in and spend time making
a fantastic event for the Atlanta sewing
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community.
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So welcome, welcome to Veronica Cole, also
known as Needle in the Bell.
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And we are happy to welcome you to the
Stitch Please podcast to talk about
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Atlanta Frog Tales.
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And I am so excited to be here because
first of all, Lisa, anytime that you're
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like, hey girl, can you come on the
podcast?
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I'd be like, when?
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Just tell me the date and time.
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You said today?
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That's cool.
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We can make it work.
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Because one thing about me is I'm always
make time for my big sisters within the
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community, which is actually how I got
into planning Atlanta Frog Tales.
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Because of course, big sister Nikki said,
hey girl, I love this idea that you have
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about us changing the season in which
we're hosting.
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So I think you should plan it.
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And I was like, oh.
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Understood.
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Received.
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the suggestion box.
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It was supposed to go into the suggestion
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I did that.
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I meant to put that in anonymously.
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I did not want that idea to be traced back
to me.
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But so we're talking here about Nikki
Griffin from Sewing My Style, Atlanta
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Sewing Style, and bra, you know, amazing
bra sewist.
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And she does all kinds of great sewing,
especially in the bra space.
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yes.
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you, what was Atlanta Frog Tales like
before?
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When was it in, when was it previously?
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And.
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question.
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So in fact, actually my very first Atlanta
Frog Tales was in October 2019.
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And it was fantastic.
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We had a great time.
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It was held at the time like Pont City
Market was brand spanking new.
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So it was held like in that area and it
was hosted by Top Stitch Atlanta.
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And it was fantastic, had a great time.
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And it was in the October timeframe.
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And now we're in Atlanta, of course, where
the number one HBCU, AKA my alma mater,
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Spelman College, is housed.
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And we have our homecoming season for the
AUC, so that's Spelman Morehouse as well
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as Clark, and the October timeframe.
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And every year I would be like, oh, so I
gotta choose between celebrating my makes
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and celebrating my school, right?
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And so I said to her, I said, listen, I
love showing up for Atlanta Frog Tales.
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Don't get me wrong.
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And I want to be here.
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But also, I feel like we're competing with
too many things locally in order for us to
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do that.
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In addition to the fact that I also felt
like we were also competing with New York
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Frog Tales.
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And if you are in the Frog Tale scene and
you like to travel, then you were having
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to kind of pick and choose depending upon
what your fraudulation situation was
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looking like.
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And I didn't like that.
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And also I feel like springtime in
Atlanta, while it is not fun for those of
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us who have allergies in the season, is so
beautiful, right?
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It is such a beautiful timeframe.
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And I was just like, well, maybe we should
move it so that it's in that May
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timeframe, because like April, May, I just
feel like it'll be really well received.
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The weather will be weathering.
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And I think that that'll be better.
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And then I, of course, I was also like, I
feel like a great theme would be Secret
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Garden.
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So of course that's when she was like,
excellent, I'm so happy that you have
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already started planning this.
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So keep going with this.
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Take that ball and you run girl, you run.
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And honestly, I have to say that I am
super excited about it, right?
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I love spring as a season and Secret
Garden was one of my favorite books as
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well as one of my favorite movies as a
kid.
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I'm excited to kind of bring sort of a
little bit of my past into my present.
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So of course, Frock Tales for me is kind
of personal this year because I love
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gardens.
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For those that don't know, I actually left
my corporate job so that I could become a
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sustainability blogger and I've won a
couple of awards doing that.
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So in my head, it's almost like...
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It's the marrying of two of my passions,
which of course is being green and living
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more sustainably in addition to, of
course, my love of sewing and creating.
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I really appreciate how in transitioning
from the fall, which is a lovely season,
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but incredibly busy for HBCU Homecomings.
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I think everyone's having their homecoming
in October, you know, between September
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and November.
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I can't imagine, I'm like, what are the
other times people do this?
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Right.
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to be, I don't know what it is, it tends
to be October.
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I think maybe it's because the school
semester has begun.
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It's kind of well underway.
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It's not just the start of semester.
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People get to come back to the college
itself and that's really exciting because
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it's open and students are around.
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But it does make it difficult to plan
events that are not homecoming related.
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And so by shifting it, by shifting it from
October to May,
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We are at this really interesting space
between the kind of end of spring and the
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start of summer.
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Can you tell me what is it about Atlanta
during that May season?
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What is the weather like?
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What are the plants doing that are making,
you know, people with allergies very
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miserable?
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definitely out here, right?
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The trees are just out here trying to
procreate and we are, we the people are
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getting in their way.
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What can we say?
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Right?
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But one of the things that I love about
Atlanta, right, is because we have so many
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festivals, right?
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There's so many outdoor things to do,
especially because you figure it's warm
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enough for you to not need a jacket.
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So you can leave extra layers at home,
right?
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You don't have to worry about it being too
cool, too cold and needing.
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the sweatshirts, the cardigans, the
sweaters, et cetera.
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Also, I love that we can do things like
going to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens.
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They're always doing these beautiful
installments that we can go out and enjoy.
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There's enough time to be, or there's
enough spaces at the parks for those that
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don't know.
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The same designer that did Central Park
also designed Piedmont Park.
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So going to spend some time at Piedmont
Park is so beautiful because there's so
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many different aspects of that park that
you can really enjoy.
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course, we've got the aquarium, we have
the Civil Rights Museum, we've got the
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World of Coca -Cola, we have the Museum of
Design and Art.
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So we have so many of these different
places to go.
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And of course, I did not mention the High
Museum, we also have the High Museum.
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But there's so many of these different
places that you can visit and you can get
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one of the city passes, which we will be
encouraging people to do and making a
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weekend out of it, right?
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In addition to that, of course, we've also
got our fabric shopping, right?
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So yeah, exactly.
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Let's go shopping.
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Now, I recently did a YouTube video where
I did share about Joanne's bankruptcy and
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people were trying to come and snatch my
edges as they were exclaiming that.
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said that they were closing stores.
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They actually have said, we don't want to
close stores and bankruptcy is a financial
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reorganization.
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It doesn't mean that they're liquidating.
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exactly, but literally everybody, not
everybody, let me amend that statement,
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but there have been so many people who are
like, oh, but they aren't closing.
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And I get it.
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They are not closing.
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Right.
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And I gave a detailed description about
what filing for chapter 11 means and what
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it specifically means for them because
they did something that was really
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specific to restructure their debts.
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But one of the other things that I did
share is that they are closing down some
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of the underperforming stores because
they've got to make sure that they're
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making wiser investments with their
fungulations.
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But not everybody has other places to shop
like we do.
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true.
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It's so true.
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Like I was talking with, well, I heard
someone who is based in New York City,
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like, you know, we don't have a Joanne's
here, so it doesn't really matter what
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happens to them.
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But no, it's true for her.
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It's true for LA, it's true for Miami,
it's true for Philadelphia, it's
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definitely true for Atlanta.
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It is not true for lots of other places.
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So I am definitely of the opinion that I
do not want my Joanne's to close because
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I'm...
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brain.
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an absolutely no holy lobby girl.
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I'm not going there.
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And so it means that I will miss, I'll be
missing out on some, you know, but also
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know how to shop in other ways and to even
travel for it.
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So you are encouraging us to really lean
into all that Atlanta has to offer.
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And you are saying, you're telling us now
that Atlanta, if those, those might not
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know has really interesting.
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fabric stores, some of which are
profoundly large.
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And with prices that are so low that,
yeah, it makes it certainly a destination
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to go there even if you aren't doing a
Frog Tales.
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So tell us more about the Atlanta fabric
shopping scene and what people who are
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going to Frog Tales might expect.
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so of course in Atlanta we have what
everyone has known and heard about is fine
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fabrics, right?
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We actually have two locations.
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We've got one that's in the North Cross
area and we have another one that's in
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like the Riverdale, Jonesboro area.
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And if I had to play favorites, I'm going
to say it's going to be in that Jonesboro,
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Riverdale area.
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I, oh my gosh.
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Lisa, Lisa.
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Girl.
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are ridiculously is amazing.
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First of all, it's better organized.
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There's more space.
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Like you know how the Norcross one, you
kind of feel like one false move.
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You never know.
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You might get toppled by a bolt of fabric.
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You don't feel that way.
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And we can't have that anymore, OK?
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But in Riverdale, you don't feel that way.
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It's a bigger space, too.
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I know.
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How could you get bigger?
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It's a larger space.
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Their button inventory, and I don't know.
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I don't know why I've been really invested
in buttons lately, but they're buttons.
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They are.
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really cute buttons?
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Was it for, was it taco or it was donut
buttons?
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That's so cute.
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talking about this for one of my classes
that I was teaching over the weekend and
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they were like, what are you gonna do with
those?
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Aren't they kind of like childish?
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And I'm like, they are.
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And I'm gonna make something super serious
with it to add a bit of fun, a little bit
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of zhuzh, a little bit of extra, you know?
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As one does.
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I'm gonna do it like a crisp white button
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with like, with these donor buttons.
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think that'll be so cool.
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I love that.
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So they've got great buttons at this other
Fine Fabrics.
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cutting area is a lot easier to navigate,
I will say as well.
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So I do love them.
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Now, also, I don't know how many people
have been to the fabric joint, which is
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local to the Decatur area.
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Now, I will say, going from fine fabrics
to the fabric joint, there's going to be
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some adjustments to expectations.
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Because literally, you're going to go from
like fabric Mecca to...
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Is this just on the floor?
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We just pick it up and buy it that way?
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So we're going to need to adjust some
expectations, but there will be some
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fabric shopping.
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But before you shop for fabrics, we are
also going to give you the opportunity to
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lighten your load.
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So on Friday, the Friday before Frog
Tales, we're going to be meeting up and
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having a meet and greet at Top Stitch
Atlanta.
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Top Stitch Atlanta is getting ready to
move.
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And the beautiful thing is that we can
meet there.
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And then we're going to do a fabric swap.
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So bring some fabric that you are not
using in your stash, take some new fabric,
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or just bring it to donate.
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Because we know that sometimes, of course,
stash busting and trying to get rid of it
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can be hard.
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So bring some of the fabric that you've
outgrown and take some fabric that you'd
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like to grow into.
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And anything extra will, of course, be
donated, which is fantastic.
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But yeah, we are working to make it the
opportunity for people to really just meet
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up and get to know each other, right?
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Like some of my nearest and dearest
friends, obviously Lisa, Nikki, et cetera,
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have been made via social media.
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And I know that I have, I've loved seeing
the people that I had the opportunity to
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connect with online in person, like
meeting you last year during QuiltCon in
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person, I was like, oh my gosh, like, oh,
I'm like.
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good.
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It was so good.
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It really made my heart smile.
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And your, your spouse, your husband gives
great hugs.
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And I told him, I said, you remind me of
my dad.
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That's like, I'm not trying to be weird,
but you really remind.
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And that was, and then he hugged me twice.
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And I was like, Oh my God, thank you.
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It just, you know, you know how it is.
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Like you just went exactly.
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It's something about that kind of that,
that.
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memory, that kind of sense memory, you
know what I mean?
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So, yeah, it's because I think his height
and his shape and just the strength of
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his...
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Yes, yes.
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make fun of him and I tease him and I call
him grandpa.
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He's deaf and he's younger than I am, but
he's like a grandpa.
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Yeah, I make fun of him.
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like this is true.
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So like so much, especially we're trying
to come back to this after the pandemic,
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things are starting to thaw, people are
starting to feel more comfortable.
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So you do, and also it doesn't hurt that
Atlanta has one of the largest, busiest
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airports in the country.
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And so a lot of places come to Atlanta for
like connections.
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So in some ways you can, you know,
depending on where you are, you can get a
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low cost ticket.
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to Atlanta for this event too, especially
if you're shopping about a month ahead,
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which is where we are right now.
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So if you haven't made your reservations
yet, this is a great time to do it.
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Yeah.
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Come hang out with us really.
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Not only do we have, of course, great
fabrics that we want to share and implore
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you to take advantage of, but like in
planning this, I have had the opportunity
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and really the honor to be able to secure
some of the most amazing like door prizes
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that you got to come and get like must be
present to win.
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is a great way to talk about the sponsors.
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So tell us about like, now just as a bit
of a review, frocktails for those who
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don't know, I guess this is something I
should have mentioned at the top of the
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hour.
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But the frocktails is a party that
combines frocks or dresses and cocktails.
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So it's like a cocktail party where you
wear things that you make.
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And it started in New Zealand, I think,
was it 2016, 2017?
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Yeah, around then.
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And it is truly a global event.
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I mean, we think about Frog Tales as if it
is ours, but it really did begin in New
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Zealand.
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And so, but I think that they're not very
proprietary about it.
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They want it to grow and spread, and so no
one's complaining.
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I just wanted to acknowledge that, because
I think that that's important.
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And so you have...
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arrange some sponsors and some
collaborators that have some fun things
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for those who participate at Atlanta Frog
Tales.
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What can people look forward to from the
sponsors?
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Okay, good point.
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at Atlanta Frog Tales Instagram for when
we start to fully reveal everything.
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What I will do is actually reveal who our
top tiers, our secret garden sponsors.
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And so they actually came in at the
highest level of sponsorship, which means,
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yes, they paid the most money.
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So, right.
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And I am like,
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One, I'm geeked about all of these
sponsors, right?
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Because I do feel like I'm personally
attached to them all.
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But also, I'm really proud of these
businesses for making this investment in
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themselves.
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Of course, that's coming from my small
business coaching hat, right?
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Because we know that when it comes time to
market, when you market successfully,
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you're marketing to an audience that's
primed for you, right?
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And so these businesses have taken the
opportunity to do just that.
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So first up, of course we have Top Stitch
Atlanta.
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Top Stitch Atlanta was actually one of the
first hosts that we had for Atlanta Frog
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Tales.
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And of course I'm personally attached to
them because I teach for Lee at Top Stitch
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Atlanta, which is fun.
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Yeah, actually Nikki made that connection
for us and I have fallen in love with
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teaching and I'm just so geeked about it,
literally.
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glad.
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I'm so glad for that.
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Yes.
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me too.
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Then we have Nature's Fabric, again, tying
in two of my favorite things,
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sustainability, because they source
sustainable fabrics and they have
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beautiful fabrics, beautiful fabrics.
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The florals that they have, I promise you
guys are going to go and check them out
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and be like, yes, neat, thank you.
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Then, of course, we've got Copper Creek
Patterns and this is actually owned by my
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girlfriend, Amy, and I've actually coached
her.
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She is one of my coaching clients and she
has made this investment and she is doing
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such really amazing things with Copper
Creek.
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And Copper Creek is the new brand.
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It used to be the Do It Better Yourself
Club or an Ivy Club.
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So it was owned by someone else and she
has taken it over and is really out here
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thriving.
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And I'm really proud of the work that
she's doing.
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Yes.
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And then another dear friend of mine,
Jenny, she's also a podcaster.
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I have co -hosted some of her other
podcasts, but she and her daughter have
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just kicked off a new sewing -based
podcast called Insomniacs.
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Insomniacs.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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And then, of course, our final sponsor at
this top tier is none other than, of
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course, the design group, AKA the Big
Five.
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So they are coming in.
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And y 'all, you want to talk about
somebody geeked because...
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to have the brand, a brand that you
represent or that you're associated with
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come in and say, we see what you're doing
and we also wanna be associated with what
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you're doing is fantastic to me because
what that says is it almost screams like,
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hey, we see you, we're rooting for you and
we're rooting for the success of this
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event.
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And I absolutely, absolutely love that.
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But y 'all, when I tell you that the door
prizes are door pricing, okay?
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The door prize, and so again,
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The theme is like secret garden.
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So think like high class, like tea party,
right?
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We're gonna be having custom made ice
creams for us with custom flavors.
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Okay.
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And when I tell you that the food is,
listen, the caterer that we have is the
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same.
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If you were at the,
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the friends giving that Mimi threw at
Melanated Fabrics.
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It is the same caterer.
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When I, Lisa, when I tell you, I kept
going back for more.
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so great.
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So this is someone who is tried and true
and that's perfect.
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That is fantastic.
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Veronica, this sounds so exciting.
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You have made such really great strides in
making your hosting of Atlanta Frocktails
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something that is really connected to the
Atlanta sewing community.
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making sure that it comes through at a
time where the competition is very low or
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lower, and that you have all this great
food and prizes and all of these things.
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And of course, with a month to go for the
event, you don't want to give away too
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much.
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But how can people follow you?
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How can people follow and find information
about the Frog Tales?
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Is there a website?
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Is there the Instagram?
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How are you communicating with folks?
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can be connected with our Instagram, the
Atlanta Frog Tales.
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So it's just simply at Atlanta Frog Tales.
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And listed in our links, we do actually,
of course, have the link to purchase your
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ticket.
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We also have the link to join our
newsletter.
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And it's a substack, which means that you
have the opportunity.
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And it looks very much so like a website.
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And y 'all, I am up there writing, and I'm
sharing inspiration.
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And I know that this is typically
something that is marketed to the sewing
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community, but we are also really focusing
on and encouraging other makers.
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Like we recognize and we see our crochet
and knit knitting peeps, right?
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We see our sneaker makers, our shoemakers,
our bag makers.
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And most importantly, this is not a gender
exclusive event.
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We want everyone to be here, man, woman,
non -binary.
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We wanna see everybody here.
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It does not.
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It does not have a gender.
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We want to see everybody coming out in,
you know how you're like, oh, I just want
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to make this extra outfit, but I don't
have any place to wear it to.
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We want you to wear it here.
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We want you to wear it.
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And with the knowledge that somebody is
not going to be like, oh, also, can you
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have my pants?
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And we're going to be able to recognize
the work and really celebrate what you
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have put in to these garments and these
shoes and these bags and things like that.
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you know, come out and celebrate and be
celebrated for everything that you're
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doing with the people who get it.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Oh, that sounds so fun.
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That sounds really fantastic.
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Aaronica, I'm going to ask you the
question that I ask everyone at the end of
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the Stitch Please podcast, but I'm going
to ask it in the context of Atlanta Frog
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Tales.
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So the slogan of the Stitch Please podcast
is that we will help you get your stitch
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together.
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Aaronica Cole, one month out from Frog
Tales, how would you advise listeners?
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to get themselves, to get their stitch
together for Atlanta Frog Tales with a
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month to go.
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the month ago.
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One, make sure you have secured your
ticket.
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Okay?
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That is numero uno.
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And second, get those patterns on and pop
in, babe.
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Especially if you are knitting and
crocheting or you are a slower sewist,
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right?
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Get it going.
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I know for me personally, I'm gonna be
donning someone's embroidered floral
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fabric, okay?
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Get in, get excited.
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Yes!
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that you have subscribed to the things
that we have going on so that way you can
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be up on what we have happening so that
you know exactly where to be, what to do,
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how to dress, what is inspiring you.
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But most importantly, be prepared to
represent who you are because that's all
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we want.
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I love it.
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Thank you so much, Aronica.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to
talk with us today about Atlanta Frog
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Tales coming up in a month.
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Get your tickets, follow the Insta, follow
the hashtags, and you will see over the
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next few weeks some really exciting things
that are unique to Atlanta Frog Tales.
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Thank you so much, Lisa.
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I'm so excited.
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Yay, me too!