Holidays!

....the sun's been out....I'm on holiday from my morning job at school and we've started to make tracks with building a new studio....honest I have been helping...just it's me who takes the photos!...while making cups of tea and delegating jobs!!!

                  

we've had my sons friends help, the dog's been digging! the retaining walls built and the concrete comes on Friday!....I just need to get a bit more money saved then I can order my "Shed" - note the capital S?! as its eventually going to be my haven of creativity!....I do have a fear that hubby is going to change the locks and wave at me from the conservatory!...So life's ok at the moment!...

I've managed to contain everything from the gallery into our home...things are as they say "a bit snug!" but hey at least majority of it has fitted in!....my make shift studio is in the conservatory and its great to see daylight as I had no windows at my other studio...

I feel a bit guilty for taking over the space but needs must and its not forever!....I've found I go in and close the door, put the radio on and I've been able to crack on with out disturbing the family .... and what with the sunshine gracing us with its presence recently its really given my spirits a lift to get on with some ideas I have had....

North Yorkshire Open Studios - NYOS is in June & I am taking part for the first time (as you can see from the link!) so not only do I have to have some work to show but also have a studio to showcase my work....I've resigned my self to the fact that if my new studio isn't ready then at least I have my home and my Sunny temporary studio and it's my work they're coming to see so stop fretting and make use of the time!....looking at my tea chests stacked by the door...

....they got me re-thinking...I loved making "Journeys" and thought how I could work on that theme, reduce it in size maybe and get back into drawing and painting....it's so easy to get out of practice!...I want to be able to show painting, textiles and paper within my work but its finding that happy balance...

The fact that pebbles are constantly on the go...always on a journey...no matter what their size...and who knows where they might end up...made me realise that I can take this theme and build on it.

I use luggage labels to display my "Findings"....however there's no address...hints of, but never a final destination...clues to possible locations and like tea-chest labels and text...whetting the viewers appetite subtly implying but never stating!....I've even gone as far as to have some pebbles cut out in ply-wood, similar to the materials used to make tea-chests and see where they take me!...so I've been busy trying out some ideas....

...anyway....its keeping me out of mischief and I'm not making too much mess!...if your interested I've re-done my facebook page, take  a peek, like and share....I'm randomly pulling a name out the hat just to say thanks to new followers this month so it might be a book or a small luggage label picture....who knows!

 Happy reading....hopefully another blog at the end of the week letting you know about my gallery visits  I've been on....bye