This is it, 5,4,3,2,1 hours to go. At last, at four o'clock today I can put the key in the door and open our beautiful, new (really old 1020's) building at 304 Braodway Stratford, Taranaki, New Zealand on the start of a really cool adventure into creating and sharing art. Champagne will flow tonight. Cheers
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Friday 21st september, at last we have a date for take over of our building for Verdigris Creative Studio.
I guess the wait has been a god send really, it has given us time to have ideas and change them, make decisions and then change our minds, over and over so now we know exactly what we need to do to get this baby up and running. Our vision of being able to provde an art space for anyone who wants to create and share is finally happening so after next Friday it will be full on renovating. You can see from the photos we have our work cut out for us but watch this space.... Today I worked with plaster, nothing out of the norm for me. I wanted to make a couple more torso bases and I had a new project that I had been working on over the weekend that needed finishing. I knew when I started that it would be a messy job but today I underestimated just how much mess there would be. I layed out a large sheet of polythene on my work table as I usually do, got everything ready, put on my apron & gloves and away I went. There was great music playing on my favourite radio station, I was in the zone. I must have spent a good three hours mixing, meshing & trowelling but as I walked back inside after washing my tools for the last time I was horrified. There was a slurry of wet plaster over a large area of the floor in my studio. The curtains and windows hadnt escaped the spray of my plaster brew either, splatter had even reached some of my finished work on another table. Not that it was a great shock that I had made a mess because I usually do but the extent of the mess even for me was quite unbelievable. Needless to say I have retired the plaster until I have organised a place outside to work with it.
This is my 'Family' cross. On it is all of my mothers plastic beads, the ones I remember her wearing the most, her old watch , a couple of her favourite earings and brooches, even part of her hearing aid. My dads watch, his car key and some polished stones he collected, My late husbands watch is in there as well with his memorium notice from the newspaper sealed inside plus lots of other bits and pieces that all have their own story. It may not be the prettiest thing you have seen but all of those things are reminders of those special people and on their own they would be classed as junk and destroyed but in this form they are a precious memory to pass on.
Some of us go through our lives doing what we think is expected of us, and put our dreams aside for the 'right time'. The 'right time' and the "timing is right' are two different things and the sooner we realise this the sooner we can really start to live our dreams. Those of you who have waited for he right time to start a new adventure may well agree that is is often a long time coming because it is easier to find reasons why we shouldnt do things than it is to find reasons why we should.
The way I live my life now is so different to the way I lived it even 3-4 years ago and the one major realisation that allows me to be happy everyday, be the person I am and to do what I love most and follow my dreams is this...... "If you truely believe in yourself and you believe that what you want to do is right then a door will open, you just have to recognise that just because we call it a door it might not neccessarily look like a door, so we have to be open to every opportunity and be prepared to take a deep breath and just do it. Appreciate and be grateful every day." Today I am living my dream and I dont have to wait for the right time because the timing is right. (still waiting for the building though). Today is cold, wet and windy but we are tucked away nice and warm with a list of things we are hoping to achieve today. ....Well that didnt happen did it? God knows where the hours have gone but the sunlight outside has dissappeared and there is only one thing on that list ticked off as done. There is no sense of dissappointment though, because I just changed the 'Things to do today' at the top of the list to 'Things to do tomorrow' and that sorted that for another day. Peter's Big Pile of ??????????
We will just have to wait and see. This waiting is becoming a bit of a bore and a few extra days has turned into weeks. I have nearly finished my website, my facebook is set up so now all we need is the building. My magpie persona has been unleashed yet again and I have aquired and accumulated so much stuff that I am running out of room to put things. I was hoping that this week would be the one, but still no word, bueracracy is taking its time. I guess this will be a good weekend to start an early spring clean around the house because once we get the go ahead there wont be much getting done at home until after the opening.
Why are we waiting....Waiting, Waiting, waiting, those who know me know that patience is not one of my greatest virutes. Waiting to get the go ahead to start work on Verdigris Studio is driving me nuts! We should have been in last week but it has put it back for a few more days. I have so many ideas floating around in my head of things I want to do to the place and I just want to be able to see them come to life. Poor Peter his head must be reeling with all the banter I have been throwing at him day in day out but he always remains calm and reassures me that it wont be long now. In the mean time though we have had the chance to do a lot of preparation so that when we do get that call we will be ready to go. But for now I am told I will just have to be 'patient'.
The beginning of a new adventureHave you ever wondered what your life would be like when you got old? When I was a kid I used to think that old was 30 but now Im in my late 50's I have no concept of what old is. I only know that age has brought with it a whole lot of wonderful new experiences, and renewed confidence. It doesnt matter how old you are there is no time like right now to start doing the things you have always dreamed of. I look at every new focus in my life as an adventure, something exciting and with purpose and today I am embarking on a new adventure with Verdigris Creative Studio, to share my craft, knowledge and art in the hope that others will find their inner artistic self.It's as simple as that, so here we go.....
I'm not a scholar, I think with my heart or gut rather than my head, some things just dont feel right and others just fit, I'm not really bothered with logic and I do things because I can rather than because I should, this is the me I am now, the me I like being and the me I have always dreamed of being, it's has taken 56 years, five children and three marriages but I finally made it. Awesome !!!
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