The last several weeks in the studio have been a mishmash of things going on, as there has been a real heat crisis at the community center where the hot water heat system was not heating any of the artists studios at all, it was just way to cold to work in my room without looking and dressing like the Michelin Man, however that does not help your hands when working in water all day, so I have not spent much time there.
While being faced with the possibility of needing to buy up to 800.00 worth of Eden Pure like heaters just to have a working studio with warmth. UPDATE- As of yesterday we suddenly have heat in all the studios, was actually the first real day in a month or more I can say I enjoyed working in the studio, without being chilled to the bone each night.
I am hoping the heat situation is resolved, as the 800.00 would have went a long way to getting my storage racks and luan doors for partitions to make my studio presentable to the public and myself, as everything is now laying on the floor, if I can do without investing in that many heaters, then hopefully by the end of the month I may be able to have the studio completely set up! What a Great Feeling for me that would be.
The chairs you see in the pictures mostly are chairs that I have acquired over the years that were in my storage unite in Bridgewater, that thanks to my great friends David & Robin Miller and their son Jason, moved for me on last Friday.
Amongst these chairs were several customers chairs that have waited patiently long and now they are in line to be hand caned. I have already started removing bottoms and started the hand caning as you can see.
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You are a true artist. Your baskets are the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. Sending warm thoughts. Karen
Thank you so much Karen, that is so nice to hear you have made my weekend!
Your studio looks like a beautiful shop, the chairs are gorgeous! So glad you finally have heat, I hate working in the cold with wet hands, miserable!
Well Jayne it certainly is much more conducive to good work when the heat is on! Hopefully that problem has been fixed now,I want to take the money to be spent on heaters and get my storage racks and partitions to make the studio presentable to the public.
You do such lovely work. Working in a cold studio is NOT fun.
Around here (Sierras) most studios have small wood burning stoves since being on the grid means regular power outages. So wood burning stoves for heat and an area to cook and small solar panels to provide working light.
Am SO glad you have your own space finally. Now I want you to have a safe, sane living space as well.
Thanks so much Beth, yes that is the next thing to tackle as I use my pet word now for where I live, “Purgatory” so I am hoping to get out of Purgatory sooner rather than later. no real prospects as of yet, but it must happen soon, my worst fear is full blown diabetes living where I do now due to poor diet.