The studio is finished and is scarily, eerily, white…. I feel I must exhibit something in there, this white cube. Actually Higgins has already done that for me. When Kit popped round to admire it and I proudly flung the door open there, in the middle of the room, was an artfully placed pile of poo…oh dear… a budding yBa?
It’s amazing what this whiteness does for a space. It means that whatever is placed in there suddenly asumes a huge importance. Even a pencil on a table, a coffee cup, a dirty sock becomes a statement. I’ve got to get in there with my stuff PDQ before the mystique scares me half to death.
The challenge is to fill it with colour and to stamp my personality on it and to get CREATIVE. I’ve been talking about it long enough. I’ve actually popped over to see Marmalade Rose and asked to join the Twenty Minute Challenge to instil a little discipline into the proceedings otherwise I could spend far too much time arranging things artistically on shelves…
In the meantime I’m going to add a little more colour to the blog. I’ve been popping out in the garden on and off wielding the camera and recording the fleeting moments of spring flowers in bloom. It’s a grey day today and the crocuses are over, but we can still enjoy them, and a little sunshine.
Underneath the weeping willow and the bottom of the garden, not fairies, but Iris reticulata…
…miniature cyclamen..
… the last of the snowdrops…
…and primroses.
That’s better. I’m now buoyed up to go and shift piles of books and start filling shelves…
p.s. If you haven’t done it already, don’t forget to put your name in the hat for the ‘Little Bird’ draw!
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Penny,
I don’t often comment but I’ve been following the studio progress and it looks amazing (and big too)!
I hope you get lots of inspiration in there!
Love the flowers too, especially the beautiful irises. A true “English garden” to me.
Love that empty white space… I wouldn’t want to put anything in there!
Your studio space looks fantastic, so nice to have a record of it now as a bare white box before it evolves as you move in.
Love the crocus photos, and those irises are fabulous, I’m going to track some down for our garden.
It looks great! Higgins probably just lost control in his excitement.
You need Benjy and a box of crayons to help the place feel homely.
What an exciting time for you, I wonder how long it will take to fill with colour?
Wow – your pristine space is so exciting – I am giddy for you!
That little cluster of crocuses seem to be jostling to get in the picture. I can almost hear them saying ‘Me! Me! Me!’
So glad you liked the necklace.
Hello Penny
Welcome to the world of 20 Minuters. Yes I have added you to the 20 Minuters
List. There are no rules, just a little promise to yourself to find at least
20 minutes a day to indulge in your particular craft. There are 50+ of us
now on the list, so if you get time pop over and encourage some of the
others. Don’t forget to post about your achievements and upload some of your
craft progress photos to our flickr page.
You can get to our flickr page by clicking on the 20 minuters flickr badge
on the side bar of my blog page. Click on the ‘What is this?’ writing under
the pics, the box will expand and then click on the pink MarmaladeRose’s 20
Minuters group pool. This will open up our flickr page, where you can click
on add photos. (you add the photos from your own flickr page. Very easy to
register on flickr and get started. It must be because I managed it. lol)
I’m looking forward to seeing whats going to happen in that very white room! LOL.
Fiona x