Monday, July 28, 2014

Moving Into The New Studio

We are slowly moving into our new studio. We've cleaned up a lot and run a couple of loads of things up there. David has been pricing wheels and is probably going to buy a Lockerbie (one of the big kick wheels that has a motor so that you don't have to kick). I'd love to invest in a slab roller, but honestly, I don't actually need one and really haven't used one in years (which is the outcome of the old studio having such shitty slab rollers that it was pointless to try to use them).

Judi, whose studio we're invading, has a kiln and is perfectly happy to see it get used since she hasn't used it in a few years. I think it will work for us, but it is actually a glass kiln, so there's going to be some experimentation involved. Yesterday Dave clicked it on and tripped the circuit breaker (we also had all the lights on and the swamp cooler running full blast), so we'll definitely have to see how that's going to work.

Aside from that, the space is larger than our old cubicle, with lots of light both from overhead fixtures as well as from two windows. There is a large utility sink and a bathroom. We can open the door and look outside while we work.

I want to get a couple of large corkboards to hang up some inspirational stuff without putting a million pushpins into the walls. And we want to get some corner shelving to make a little reading corner in the bathroom.

I'm wary of moving all of our stuff into the space. We had a lot of crap that had just piled up in the cubicle because, hey, why not keep it? I'd like to purge a lot of it--and did while we were moving. There's still just a shitload of stuff though. The whole patio is filled right now with bins of stuff that needs to be sorted and decided upon.

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