Holiday

Well, we are almost ready for our BIG holiday celebration. Molly and Jim are coming out to spend the night and start the day early tomorrow. I still have a bike to put together and am afraid I have left it too long and will not get it done today...: ( Roy is b-b-qing a turkey leg and I have rum and Absolute Vodka so whatever we have I will enjoy it, probably go to sleep after the first cocktail. lol

We closed on our new building, I am still scared about it but now know there is no turning back. I think it is going to be fine, even if I only use it as a studio it will improve our lives a LOT. Getting all this stuff out of the house is going to open up a lot of space around here and help me to keep this place clean, maybe, I hope. I am also looking forward to having teaching space and room to have really big workshops, this is something that is needed in this area, since the closest place for that is Halcyon. Artist in residence programs will be wonderful too. Gallery space, retail...the possibilities are mind boggling but I plan to start really small and slow...make it all work eventually and have some peace and fulfillment in my work. Tall orders but totally do able, I think.

So I'm off to the dump, to the store, to the barn, to put together a bike... no rest for the wicked.
Next; clean out a building, move my crap in and get back to work...see above statement.lol

Nose to the grindstone, hands upon the wheel...

Well, I spent the day being responsible, studying for my final in computer tools. It shouldn't be too bad, no worse than the mid term, or so I keep telling myself. But, there seem to be a LOT more terms to look up, 60 and we have several diagrams to draw...I may be getting myself all worked up for nothing.
The power point presentation went well. I was impressed with how many good ones there were. There were a couple of real stinkers too. But the good out weighed the bad by FAR. That was nice. The BEST part? I made an A for AWEsome! I will post it on here when I am somewhere I can use a real internet connection and not the play baby one I have at home.
I am posting a picture of Dahoy, she has been asking me to get her face out there so she will be noticed. She is very quiet and I am kind of surprised that she even spoke up. Just between you and me; Dahoy isn't the brightest one around but she is VERY sweet and since she asked so nicely I thought the last photo I took of her when we were out and about would do nicely.
Dahoy is the first in a series of felted dolls. She is wet felted and has needle felted detailing. She has substantial weighting in her legs so she feels "real" when held. I was inspired by a puppet I saw on Etsy and just had to try my hand at a character doll, Dahoy was born.
There will be baby dolls and some more beauties like Dahoy in this series. It should be a lot of fun. : )

Friday, finally

So here we are at the end of another week...finally. Is it just me or does everything seem to be rolling downhill...right onto my head?
The fence is almost complete and we should be closing on the building really soon. It will be nice to start moving all this business stuff out of my house and into the new studio space. SO MUCH ROOM! and light and well, an emoticon is in order : )
Stay tuned for updates on that situation and for new workshops etc. It will ALL be possible once I have the space, again : )