More Good News

The photos posted backwards. Oh well. I actually couldn't post the photos from the blogger post window. I posted them from the "Blog This" button on the Picasa site. This room will be my new studio! It is now the den/tvroom/with couch. We will replace these furnishings with my worktables and paint supplies.

The room is about 10 by 15. The heat source is the gas fireplace. It has two windows and is not damp.

How did this evolve??? I decided to move my expensive purchased handmade paper out of my damp and at times wet studio to under my bed. Hard to get at but at least it is dry under there. I felt so frustrated, so I had asked myself the question, well what is it in my power to do about these papers getting ruined? I couldn't easily change the studio itself. So, voila, move the papers.

I also cleaned out my closet half of which was filled with some of Mom's stuff. Then I had room for these boxes of handmade cards, artworks and the paper and envelopes to make cards out of. I will be lucky if the envelope flaps haven't stuck together.

As I was doing all this Mom was watching. I told her that this winter I would like to set up a worktable in the living room or den where I could make books and cards. Mom said I could do so in the den. I said it'll be messy when I'm working on a project and I don't put all my stuff away every night, not till the project is finished. She thought that was OK. Surprise, as she is a total neatnick and hates piles of stuff around.

About twenty minutes later, Mom says she had an idea. She will build on another room for me to use as a studio off the living room. It won't have heat, she says. But we can keep the door open to the living room and heat will come in. BUILD A ROOM?~!~~ Well, okay if she wants too. After all it will increase the property value certainly-- all to the benefioft my brother of course in the end.

Twenty minutes later Mom has another idea. She doesn't want to spend the money on a new room. We can move the couch and TV into the living room and I can use the den as my studio. Isn't that wild.

The truth is, ever since I first moved in I've had my eye on that den. I knew it would be a perfect studio, warm and dry and with windows. But I have a feeling if I had suggested that I take it over for myself Mom would have rejected the idea. Now, it is her idea. See how wonderfully it evovled. I've lived here 9 months and she's gotten used to me. And, unless she changes her mind which she has been known to do, my image of a studio will be fulfilled. Hurrah.

Pardon the spacing but this happened because I transferred the photos using the "Blog This" button I think.