Welcome Mat

“The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”

Emily Dickinson

I think the door will often be ajar in my studio, especially in the summer. It's HOT here right now. So I figured since it's a great space it should have a greta welcome mat. And today I found one!

Today we got the last little bit of molding up, I'll paint it tomorrow. The paint in the large room I am not very happy with. If you lean anything up against the walls the paint comes off with it!

I made my first project in the new space today, I special piece for a friend who lost her son. I've been wanting to do it for ages, today seemed like a good day for it.

Move IN day!

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy - they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

Marcel Proust

Today was a very very happy day for me, I moved into the new studio space!

I've been needing more studio space for a very long time. We tried to think of ways to add on to my existing studio and it just would work. So we bought a portable building to move onto the property. I planned to make it a metal studio and leave the glass in the house studio. TODAY is move in day. Here's some pics! I am in heaven. I'll be posting more pictures as it progresses.

Years ago the studio spot was a small field.

Then is was a veggie garden for a couple years.

Then the studio flew IN! Well it came on a flatbed and a crane dropped it into the perfect spot!

There is sat for a while. It had to settle so we could square it back up.

Then my husband added a tiny deck at the front door. I cleared a pathway through the garden and this is now my front door!

This is the view from my back door, notice my wonderful little pond. My raspberry plant and two juicy raspberry's on them today!

My metals bench is immediately to the left as you come through the front door. I found the perfect bench, Thanks Karen and Scott!

This room will eventually be a machining/tool room. I can shut the door and the dust etc can stay in there. I love the bright cheery colors, I was worried when I started to paint with them but it makes me smile every time I walk in there. The tools will eventually be on a workbench and the cabinet they are sitting on right now will go on the opposite wall.

Currently this is my most favorite part, a HUGE workbench I can walk around. It'll be raised up about 4-5 more inches so it's more ergonimically correct for me. It's a bit low right now.

Some special photos

“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”

Sir Winston Churchill

This is so true, and tomorrow I may have some very special photos to share.

Fuschia Berry

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”

Theodor "Dr. Seuss"

Today was another painting day. I'm making serious headway in the larger studio room and I think I may even be able to set up the silver bench in the next couple days! I love the brown paint I got for the walls, very much like Hershey's syrup! YUM

Listed Fuschia Berry tonight a gorgeous troll/pandora bead.

Wind

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

Anias Nin

Today is windy and blustery, with a threat of rain. We do need it, but I feel for the farmers market people who are trying to set up is some pretty serious wind!

Today is a painting day I think, maybe I can get a coat of primer and one coat of paint on a couple of the studio walls. I am itching to move in!

Busy day

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

Today was a busy, exhausting day. I had planned to get the larger studio room patched and primed. But the electrician showed up today and connected the power! I have lights! How cool is that? We did have to dig a large long trench to bury the line in, it was a bit deeper than planned we are going to put in the water line now too. Maybe not hook the water up right away but might as well sink the line while the ditch is already there.

All that digging has me completely worn out!

I managed to get this Purpling set listed today!

Canada Day

“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.”

Joseph Wood Krutch

Yesterday was Canada Day and my husband was home which is rare. Usually it's a long grueling rodeo weekend with lots of driving and not much sleep.

As much as I missed hitting Ponoka rodeo as it's one of my faves, I had a great Canada Day.

We started the day with a antique car show on the Gorge, it was drizzling but there was still a decent amount of people. We had lunch there and headed home mid afternoon.

THEN we picked up the cabinets for my new studio space!! I think I may have actually got one too many, a friend is moving and needed them gone so we got a great deal! I am hoping to get the larger room painted this week so I can move everything in. Very very exciting!

Dinner at My Chosen Cafe and a movie made it a damn fine day!