Peanuts Vintage Comic Books (the only ones I could find).
(There’s a huge antique store at the basement of Johnson’s Terminal, the largest one in the city)
Some handmade coffee set for mother.
(From a store at the forks (2nd level), there’s a souvenir store filled with crafts, souvenirs handmade by locals)

Tea from the maple tree
(From the same store)

A photograph of Thomspon, Manitoba by Harv Sawatzky
(Same store)

A source for many inspirations: The Exchange District & The Forks. Great Architecture with some street art here and there. It’s similar to Downtown Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market area except the streets are much less populated (sometimes empty) and a tad more run down, but it adds age & character.

The Golden Boy (Legislature of Manitoba)

Under the Maryland Bridge. It kind of look’s the same.. except it’s now a home for hobos.

Polaroid #1… out of potentially 39!

 

 

And something random/old:

Where I’m staying for a month: Osborne Village

Flight to Winnipeg: Tomorrow evening.

Meeting up, hanging out & settling down, this week.

Starting the polaroid project (finally!), next week.

Can’t wait

Just one…

Am I living my dream jobs? One of them, but only after realizing that my ideals for my dream jobs were obtained:

- Working at my own pace & hours
- A very decent income
- Few hours of work
- Not working for a client’s specifications: creative freedom

What is it? Being a blog theme designer! It’s new and pretty cool (I won’t spill my methods or “secrets”) but essentially as a blog theme designer it takes 30 min - 1 hr to produce a blog theme. The themes are released for people to use for free, which is really rewarding when I see people using my designs on their blogs or sending me emails regarding the themes they’ve used. “Magic happens” (which I won’t say how :p ). But this gig allows me to produce 10 blogs in a day (within 10 hours) when I do decide to work, this then produces $1k in income! Of course clients cannot afford to purchase so many of them but an average of 3 - 4k a month from just blog designing part-time is indeed decent, fun and rewarding.

ONE CON: This market could fall one day (I would guess in a year or less) so there is really no stability