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| Vespa Baby needs a bath! Poor thing lives in the workshop and keeps getting covered in sawdust. Must get a dust cover and get it licensed for Oregon. Gonna love these dry roads! |
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| Spent most of the day in the workshop. Loud music, sawdust flying, covered in paint, all of my favorite things in the world! This is the newest display I am working on. It will be a display for charms. |
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| Texturizing styrofoam wig heads. Never a dull moment. ;) Today was a good day. I stopped by a few of my retailers and dropped off the dog displays. I love the response. I hope the customers have a good response as well. I have some new ideas spinning around in my head. I wish I had enough time for everything I want to do. |
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| I just got my styrofoam wig heads in the mail. I'm so excited! This is the start of displays for my necklace/card sets. |
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| I felt so happy today!! When I started my art business almost 3 years ago, I would go out on the apartment deck, set up my table saw on the floor (it barely fit) and piss off the neighbors by hammering and sawing to build my canvases. Not only did I annoy everyone around me but it was pretty unsafe. Today I just finished building a table for my miter saw, a table for Mom's scroll saw and a work table. The work table is even big enough to build a canvas on top of, no more nailing on the floor! |
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| Not only does this hugely impact my art business, but on a personal level I feel like I'm home. In the past years, whenever life felt lonely (often) or cold, I would think about working in my dad's woodshop at the Winchuck with the sun shining. I've often missed how simple life was back then. Today, standing in G's garage, realizing that my parents and Gramma have given me back my security and peace. I have a woodshop and studio. I have sunshine most days. I have people who love me closeby. I think the only thing missing is my girls. I miss them terribly. |
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| I spend so much time in Home Depot with all of my projects they are starting to recognize me (poor them). ;) These are Dianne and Brandon. I forced them to pose for me. It is people like this who help me build my business, whether they realize the extent of their help or not. |
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| And even while taking pics of the workbenches....what I notice are the vertical lines of the tables and the shadows from the sun. Cool graphics. |
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| I find process almost more interesting than the finished product. Almost. |
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| Let the fun continue. At least while I'm producing, my mind is free to wander. I have paintings swirling around in my mind. Oooh, sketchbook. The way my mind has been working live a sieve lately, probably a good idea to jot them down. |
