Happy New Year to all my followers and readers - I hope your Christmas was enjoyable, and that the new year will be a happy and creative one for you. I'm hoping it will also be a bit more creative for me as well. The reason for my lack of creativity is shown below .... the construction of our new house, built by my hubby with me as labourer, as well as some employed labour hire too. If you look closely to the right of the photograph you'll see my little studio buried in the middle of the construction site (green door).
The work has been hard especially in the heatwave we've just had, and I won't be sorry to see it finished. The next step is the roof and then hopefully everything else will happen quickly after that and life can go back to normal. As if building this isn't enough work for us, I had a disaster in my studio to contend with. During the winter storms rain got in through the door and seeped under my beautiful jarrah flooring, buckling and twisting it, so we've had to have all the floor ripped out and had it tiled.
Now the house is full of my clutter, and I'm waiting for the floor to be completed so I can move everything back in and have a clean up. Its very hard to be productive in all this upheaval. So to keep my hands moving I've been doing some simple stitchery work in the evenings, but they're itching to get into more exciting stuff, so stay tuned, I haven't forgotten you all and will be back as soon as I can with more interesting things to share with you.
Building a home is being creative in the extreme! It looks great.
ReplyDeleteWow your house will be wonderful. I'm sure it must be difficult to do any stitching as things are but you'll soon be back to normal.
ReplyDeleteIt must be so exciting and rewarding to build your own house, all that upheaval will be worth it in the long run.
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Wow, what an amazing achievement, and to have a bespoke house at the end of it. Your studio looks amazing even with the damaged floor. Good luck with it all, hope it's finished soon.
ReplyDeleteHi Julie, I am now following as Quilt Candy too, so that I never miss an update. Your house is going to be just fabulous and I know you will be so happy there. It will be worth the wait and disruption. I can't wait to see your studio with the new floor and bookcases too. It's going to be perfect and really help get the creative juices flowing! You are very lucky to have such a wonderful space :-) xxx
ReplyDeleteI have been there, done that, so I know how you are feeling. The upheaval is horrendous,but the end result will be simply wonderful. How sad about your beautiful Jarrah floor. Thanks for visiting my blog, which brought me back to yours again! Lynda's book is fascinating, and now there are extra lessons available on Maggie Grey's blog with even more ideas. Cheers
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