One of my Christmas gifts from Robert this year was paint! He is currently out in my tremendously dismantled studio painting the walls for me. Finally. The metalsmithing side of the building was a truly awful mocha hue when we moved in and for whatever reason, I never took the time to change it. Let me rephrase that, mocha isn’t an awful color, it can be very nice in some situations, but it is dark and dismal and sort of…grubby…in my studio space. The room is being repainted in a feathery light grey (almost white) and one wall, the one that hosts my pellet stove, will be a deep, deep midnight blue. Delicious. Rob is also building me a new modular shelf unit for this wall to display all my inspirational bits and bobs I find whilst out on my rambles in the wild and wide open. It’s going to be a sort of gallery wall for me and I look forward to it being finished, very much.
In the meanwhile, while the studio is down, and I’m in the throes of recovery from the jabberwocky of a cold I had last week, I have had plenty of time to set the entire house in order, purge a few cluttered corners, launder all that needs laundering and best of all, I’ve had time to slow down and read and sketch. I’ve been doing so very much sketching, everything from blind contour drawings to more detailed sketches of beautiful tiny things, and rabbits, too, as always.
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Something I listened to last night.
A wonderful interview.
The book I have started to read.
The music we are hearing.
I’ve been meaning to mention Susannah Conway’s brilliant end of year workbook for weeks now. We did not travel for Christmas this year. It was our first year ever simply staying at home, by ourselves, having a quiet and relaxing time. I had time to look back over the year past and lay some bricks for a path forward into the new year. The hurtling speed of December usually results in me bellyflopping into January and simply keeping on keeping on. Not this year! This year I pinned the 2014 calendar to the wall with intention and momentum and managed to wave 2013 goodbye with a plenty of grace. I don’t think it’s too late to take on this work book. It’s basically a collection of writing prompts that help a gal look at the year past and prepare for the year coming. Thanks Susannah.
Hope you are well, darlins.
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