PAPERIN', PAINTIN', AND COMTEMPLATIN'...

I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful holiday weekend. Ours was full of family, fun, and of course, fireworks. In between celebrating I have still been working on the studio. All my supplies are officially housed with the exception of a lost organizer full of sewing pins, needles, thimbles, and such, as well as a box of various types of glue. I am suffering a bit of angst over the misplaced glues. A girls gotta have her glue!I am down to the last piece of furniture in the room to be repainted, a little accent paper added, and then I can move on to the pretty part. I have been paintin' and paperin' everything in sight! That is where the contemplatin' comes in. I have been considering all the possibilities with the decor of this room. The problem is that I have not actually worked in the space so it feels very foreign and strange to me. I am trying to make friends with it, really I am, but I still dearly miss my old little happy blue studio! I am still sorting out lighting issues too. The biggest is to fan or to chan (delier), to be hot or not, physically and stylishly, that is the question. All this decision making is giving me a headache!Even Baby has put on her thinking cap...Trying to help me to nail down a firm idea or direction beyond the bare bones of the room...The more I reflect upon it...The more I wish there were a shorthanded route to the finished product...When I was given the gift of space for the little blue studio, I was just taking my first shy peek at blogging and getting cozy with mixed media... It was a time of boldness and blossoming...It was a time of stepping out of the shadows into new realms of creativity...I am now poised between the old and the new with a little bit of the shyness returning as I make acquaintance with my new friend, wanting to be friends but unsure how to pursue it so I hold back a little...Standing in the doorway gazing into the new studio space I realized it was time to brush off the old angst of the sudden shift...This is an opportunity for a new chapter, to turn a new page, embracing change...To create a new landscape...That reflects a season of softness...A new place to gather my thoughts and ideas...To fan the flames of creativity...To find a new place and space that brings rejoicing to my soul...This little pause in all the paintin' and paperin' has me contmeplatin' on all the new ways I might flourish...If I open my heart to change accepting a new challenge. Friendship is not instantaneous, it is something that develops over a period of time as we grow to know one another. Perhaps this new studio and I will get along after all as we grow together, it into a place of inspiration and functionality and I ...well, where this new artful adventure takes me, that remains to be seen.

Wishing each of you a day that brings rejoicing to your soul!

Blessings,
Miss Sandy

P.S. I promise to stop teasing you with little sneak peeks of the new studio in the very near future.