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June 02, 2008
upward
Peter and I spent the weekend completely rearranging the furniture in three of the four rooms on the main floor of our house (all but the kitchen, which doesn't really have furniture) in order to make the front room into my work space. The living room shifted around to accommodate some things from the dining room which in turn made way for the piano to vacate a space in the front room for my sewing table. It's been exciting and exhausting and the whole place is a mess, but we got rid of 80% of our books, our living room is charming and cozy and I have a space to sew and design and draw, with a big work table and lots of room. The dining room table is covered with piles of stuff we don't know what to do with, but as it's now warm enough to eat our meals on the porch, that's a small thing.
And this morning I brewed myself a big travel mug of tea, walked over to the Windsor Printmaker's Forum and set up all of my stuff in the little desk space I get with my studio rental, making it nice and homey (if y'all haven't noticed, homey and studio-ey are pretty much the same thing to me after all these years of working in my home/living in my studio):
I'm not quite ready to print yet, so I spent a few hours sitting at the desk polishing up a bunch of copper etching plates that I'd abandoned in progress over the last few years, allowing them to get grossly oxidized and covered in verdigris. But they're all shiny now and ready to be reworked.
While packing up my Athens studio to bring it all home I came across some rejected knit design sketches that, after not looking at them for a while and sort of forgetting what they look like, I still think are pretty cool. So I'm going to start working on a few of those in hopes of self publishing the patterns later on. I've also got a design in progress that I abandoned sometime last year that I'm going to try to finish up over the next month or so. In the midst of all this I need to somehow make some money (that first student loan repayment date creeps up fast) but I've certainly got a lot to keep me busy.
Sometime over the next couple of days I'll have a wee little pattern to share, just as soon as I get around to writing down what I did. It's a present for somebody that I haven't put in the mail yet, but I'm pretty sure she doesn't read this, so it'll be safe to show. Stay tuned!
Posted by jodi at June 2, 2008 01:57 PM | categories: in the studio
Comments
Congrats on hashing out some space in the house for a work area! Our new house is currently lacking a space for my office/studio due to a structural flooring problem in the room that was to be mine but I'm hoping we'll get it sorted out in a month or two. Also, I love the word "verdigris" - its such a cool descriptive word that doesn't get enough use.
Posted by: Mouse at June 2, 2008 04:00 PM
That is pretty awesome that you get to set up your own area. What a nice work space!
Posted by: miss mildred at June 2, 2008 10:09 PM
Having a dedicated space will surely be a good thing!
Posted by: Carol at June 4, 2008 02:30 PM