Today I played. I had lunch with a friend and worked in the garden as it was a sunny day with more rain is on its way, not to mention TWO large dyeing projects. I thought there was only one but now there are two. The only things I did in the dye studio were mundane events like cleaning up and organizing. I always try to have at least one day after a large project where I play and then one day to organize before starting whatever is next.
Here are my lovely sinks. Under those tubs are more tubs needing rinsing and stacking.
Here is the area where I mix the dyes. It may look chaotic to you but I know exactly where everything is amazingly enough. It really needed wiping down and papers put away and the lids put back on safely.
Okay! Sink is clean and tidy.
Dye area is clean and tidy. So what's next? Tomorrow The UPS Guy is coming with three bolts of silk from Jes in Hawaii. THREE BOLTS. She asked me to dye 50 belly dancing veils for her. This translates into 150 yards of silk. There isn't anything I like better in the whole world than dyeing silk...I dream of dyeing silk.... If silk were available, I'd marry it. If silk were fattening, I'd weigh 6,000 pounds. If silk were...okay...you get the idea. Sending me three bolts of silk to dye makes me so happy...it's like throwing a steak to a hungry lion or like cheese to a rat, or like______________. Fill in the blank for me here. I'm embarrassing myself now.
So....tomorrow....tune in as I wait for The UPS Guy. Some of my QU students know about my relationship with The UPS Guy. He is a total Grumpy Gus. I have been trying to get him to smile for over a year now. He actually said a barely audible "welcome" last time as I waved at him and yelled: "THANK YOU, UPS GUY!!!!!!!!!!!!" as he drove away as fast as he could. He really is antisocial and gets so irritated when he has to deliver bolts and bolts of fabric to me each month. I just can't imagine why he would mind all the mad dogs and the stairs and the 60,000 pound packages I need him to carry into the house for me.
Maybe I can get a picture of him for the blog tomorrow. That ought to cheer him up. :-)
See you tomorrow. Let the games begin!!
2 comments:
So lovely to see your studio, with and without mess - can't wait for the next bit. Thanks for sharing.
It's funky but it works for me. There have been many times through the ages when my husband and I have talked about building a "real" studio and while it is exciting, it's also scary to think of a clean, new, pristine place that would only end up looking like this anyway! I can and do end up spilling and slopping and spraying and the cement floor wipes up nicely or I leave it until I get to it which is maybe once a year. :-)
There are other pictures of the rest of the studio earlier on the blog if you want to look around.
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