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From the Front Porch

Episode 70 || The Art of Making Art

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of those Instagram accounts we all follow? Annie and Chris chat with Lindsay Hopkins of Pen and Paint, an enormously popular Instagram account and Etsy shop based in Albany, Georgia.  Find Lindsay on Instagram and Etsy.   Podcasts we mention:  + StoryCorps + This American Life + Smart Creative Women + Elise Gets Crafty + Audible Discernment   Books Lindsay mentions:  + Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen + Tattoos on the Heart by Father Gregory Boyle (The podcast episode Annie mentions is from On Being with Krista Tippett, found here.)  + Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt

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0:00.0

I think I could be a truck driver.

0:03.0

Do you?

0:05.0

Welcome to episode 70 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.

0:15.0

I'm Chris Jensen, a reluctant academic, and bookseller at the bookshelf.

0:20.0

And I'm Annie Jonesones owner of the bookshelf

0:22.4

an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown thomasville georgia we have recorded a lot of podcasts

0:28.2

today we are we are at the very end of our ropes uh this we recorded three not back to back

0:35.3

to back to back but back to back to back to back still but back to back to back, break to back.

0:38.3

Still kind of a long podcasting day.

0:41.5

I feel like we deserve a better microphone and a better sound system.

0:45.9

We do.

0:47.1

And also maybe some like corporate sponsorship.

0:49.2

Yeah.

0:49.6

Squarespace.

0:50.4

Are you listening?

0:51.3

Mailchimp?

0:52.2

Uh, Stamps.com?

0:53.4

Anybody?

0:57.8

Birchbox. Wow, we're even stupid birch box whoa whoa we just lost our birch box sponsorship before we even got it just strangled in the womb

1:05.3

no no thank you um so this episode we talked to Lindsay Hopkins.

1:11.2

Who was a delight?

1:12.4

She was wonderful.

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