well...nice change from last April! Sent Angie out of the house to get some peace and quiet (and Margo a well deserved respite from puppy carousing!) and it was raining!
Last April was snow.... it is still wet, but much warmer! And much more mood lifting...yes, I love the rain...I am weird!
The birds are happy about this April weather too...I can hear them chirping outside my window. As is Angie at the back door.
Now to contend with wet puppy and muddy paws......like having to catch a greased pig.....my flooring has taken a beating since her arrival!
Have been working on my new collections for this year. Doing a bit of re-organizing and re-vamping of my thought process in the area of design. The idea is to have a whole cohesive plan; and work smarter and develop groupings that intermix and compliment each other. I am being a bit ambitious I think, but hope to have 8 new collections done by open studio date in May. I will still do my one of a kind pieces, I do have to acknowledge my very small attention span, but I think re-focusing and narrowing my scope will aid me in creating better designs.
At least that is the goal.
The re-organizing has started with my studio...which is actually too toasty since the nice weather, have to turn the heat off!...all the flameworking glass rods are re-sorted or will be, into cardboard map tubes..provided by my lovely sister Yvette and cut down to size by my Dad. He even sanded the edges of the cut tubes...I am greatful to both. Need more tubes though as I have much more glass than I thought I had. Discovered colours to play with that will be in the new collections. So organizing does pay-off...it is just such a pain to keep up.
This past winter I invested in a bead core liner thingy...haven't tried it yet. It will aid me in lining my callies with sterling...big holed flameworked slider beads to collect. They fit my knit wire necklaces, special round-maille bracelet (opps...gave away a design detail) and most of the add-a-bead type of jewelry pieces out there. The sterling will add value and finish them off nicely.
Also purchased an "EZcube" light box...need new and better photos of my designs for web display. Haven't taken it out of the box yet...office area needs to be re-organized so I can set up my table top studio...junk needs to purged!
So you can see my list of "to dos" is long...and getting longer everyday.
Floor has puppy tracks all over it...gotta get out the swiffer!
ciao!
Annette
