bees, beds, and table

a little while back i had a furniture maker i know deisgn and make this new coffee table for the lounge room. this was the beginning of a new era - since then we have repainted and tidied up the whole house. and otto is there on the sofa.

love the table, good size, i just could not find one anywhere that i really likes and that fit the space. bespoke furniture is great.

 

i found some dog fabric to compliment the cat fabric, and this time made cat beds with the dog fabric. 2 local cats and one interstate cat were the lucky recipients of these cat beds.

and just for something totally different i organised to get bees at our workshop. a friend of mine is bee keeping, and needs places to put his hives. so we give him space in our yard, he does all the work and then when it is time to extract the honey we get 1 jar of rental honey.

 

right now there is just the one level but soon we will get a second story and that is where our honey will be stored until we extract it at the end of summer.

 

you barely even notice it is there, and i like the idea of helping the bee population out.

sofa, settee, couch, chaise longue, chesterfield...

call it what you want. but we now have a new one!

about 3 and a half months ago, borris and i went sofa shopping. it was a bit tricky because we didn't want to spend a lot of money and we had a very specific measurement that the sofa needed to fit in. we saw this one in the store and borris decided this was the one. only in a different colour.



well 3 and a half months later it finally arrived on a slow boat from china (no really). borris chose the cobalt colour, and is definitely happy with the chaise longue part of it.

now we just need to re-organise all the stuff in the room to make it fit, and find a new table. but hey this might just change our lives! no more sore backs, no more short sofa not long enough to lie out on, and room for 2 to stretch out! happy days

have a sale

a few people mentioned in response to my last post that i need to have a sale.

as luck would have it i am going to be in a sale next month.



in preparation for this sale i got these stickers made up to help merchandise my badges. i have about 100 of these to sell.

this table is full of other blown glass objects i have made. the sale will be ideal for this smaller object type stuff, but still my "artworks" will not be suitable for this type of event.

the hardest part now is pricing all this work.

for now the other stuff i blogged about in my last post will remain in my studio until i come up with a solution.

the problem with making stuff is....

....what to do with it all.

i am not sure if it is the spring weather we have had recently, or the fact that hard rubbish in this area is soon and i should maybe take advantage of that, or that i know that in a few months i will be moving my studio but today i found myself going through some stuff in my studio and thinking what am i going to do with all this? especially some older work.

at the same time i am about to start making some new work - but i have to stop and ask myself why. what am i going to do with more stuff?

this problem might not bother everyone but i am a person who is sensitive to clutter, and would rather see things put away and surfaces clear of clutter.

the question is what do i do with these items in my studio?

these panels are made of 2 panels of flat glass with an image etched onto the surface and have ink rubbed into them, made for an exhibition in 2008 and never shown again.

this wall piece made of car mirrors hangs i my studio, i like it but don't know what to do with it. and oi would like to reuse this technique again one day. maybe i should keep this one?

these mobiles are from an exhibition in 2006. i only have one left, but it is a big one. i do have one hanging in my home and like it but what do i do with the last one?

this is a collection of 90 cups each with a drawing on them. these cups were done over a period of 3 months while i was overseas, a drawing a day on each cup. when i look at the cups i recall the days, so i feel bad getting rid of them, and i like the idea, but the drawings on the cups are not special enough to make the piece work. i would like to revisit some kind of time piece again. but what to do with these now? who needs 90 cups on 3 shelves?

i only have about 6 of these left, and again i like them, but what to do with them now?

and finally these three wall pieces, that i made and exhibited in 2008 but never again. i don;t even like them much anymore, i am glad to have made them as they led to the work i make now but bow what to do with them?

so if anyone who knows me wants any of these let me know soon, i would far prefer they live in some one's house and be enjoyed rather than in a box in my studio.

unfortunately if i do have any exhibitions they usually require new work, and i can not show these items again easily.

or if anyone has any other good ideas let me know.