Creating again!

My creative space is up and working again in our fabulous new home.  So much has happened since my last post.  We are all settled in at the new place, I have three paintings out in two different group exhibitions and one in a competition.  We have been on a road trip for a family wedding and I’ve had a little interview uploaded on to You Tube (my 22 seconds of fame!).  And then on my return to blog land I find we have a new home for our creative spaces as well, exciting times!

I’m so happy all of the busy, busy days are over and I can settle back into some sort of normal rhythm.  The painting that is on my work bench has waited so long to come to life and I am really happy with how it is coming along.  Hopefully I will be able to share the finished piece in the next couple of days.   

I’m very happy to be back here in blog land too, I can’t wait to find some time for visiting and catching up on what you have been up to.

So close… but still so far away…

Not too long now in the grand scheme of things...   

but the next few weeks are going to be torture...

I just want to move in right now!

Anticipation…

We are getting really close to living here now…  I can’t wait to hang out on the deck every day; it’s so peaceful among the tree tops, listening to the water trickling down our little creek.

  

We don’t have an exact date yet, but soon, about 3 weeks.  They are going to be the longest 3 weeks ever!

Check out our tree house….

Our new house is really starting to come to life.  Work stopped over Christmas and then the floods stalled things for a while, but now it is full steam ahead again.  

The purple isn’t as dark as we expected, but it has grown on us, it is going to look great when the timber stair case and railings are installed. 

Check out the chimney, the fire place is in and we are thrilled!   

We are getting REALLY excited about living there now, it is so peaceful out on the back deck looking over the little creek and listening to the trees rustle.  Not too long now…

Our builder has let me in on a little secret…..

They are ahead of schedule, fabulous news!  BUT it leaves me with a dilemma….  

Our beautiful dream house has lots of huge doors and windows, so we can take in the view of the tree tops we are nestled amongst.....  That means not many walls for me to adorn with paintings.  

So I have to find new homes for heaps of my paintings.  To that end I am doing a little editing of prices (read – slashing prices ridiculously!)  in my “Paintings Available for Sale” album over on facebook and adding lots of new paintings to the album as well.

Do pop over for a little look, please feel free to send your friends over too, I’d really appreciate your help with spreading the word about this one!  I’m starting to panic about just how many truck loads, my studio supplies and paintings are going to take up in the move…

We have a roof!

Well most of a roof!  Next week we should get windows – check out the size of those windows holes– we love them!  It really is going to feel like we are living in a tree house.

Shadow Shot + House Update + Exhibition Excitement

While this shadow shot may not be a spectacular photo, it marks a very exciting moment.  My Curly Guy and I are standing together for the very first time, on the floor of our new home!  

We have waited so long to see what it would look like up high in the trees where our home will be nestled.  It is spectacular!  We can’t wait to live here. 

I am so keen to get around and check out some shadow shots… It has been so long since I played along…  I have been immersed in preparations for my exhibition.  It opened on Friday night and I had such a fabulous opening night.  

I also had an online opening night so if you want to pop by and check out the show, just click here. There is still time for you to enter the “lucky door prize” on my Online Opening Night post, if you hurry, it will be drawn on Monday.

We have poles AND bearers….

The dream house is progressing along again this week now that we have had a break from the rain.  We should get a floor this week and maybe even some of the wall framing.  Exciting times! AND only 2 more sleeps till my opening night…

Look what I found in the gully at “The Dirty” today...

(a light on words post for Blogtober 17!)

Where’s all the art????

While you might imagine the lead up to an art exhibition would mean lots of paint and canvas, there is not actually that much creativity in my space at the moment…..

15 days till opening night and most of the work I am doing includes this diary.  Writing to the press, getting invitations out into the community, collecting paintings and applying for a group exhibition later in the year have occupied me this week.  Along with the excitement at The Dirty….the holes we celebrated earlier in the week are now full of cement and we should soon have poles rising into the air.  

I hope your creative spaces are exciting and abundant today, so that I can pop by and live vicariously through your creativity!

Dream Home Update….Holes!!!

It’s so exciting to see things happening at “The Dirty” (Little Guy calls our block The Dirty – so cute!).

We have holes!

The surveyor’s markers that we were so excited to see in last week are now out with holes in their place.

This pile of steel will go into the holes today as they are filled with concrete.

We were a bit worried on the drive out to The Dirty last night as it was raining.  We didn’t want to face delays or have to have water pumped out of the holes…. But the rain soon stopped and then we were rewarded and reassured by this little piece of magic.

It’s going to be such a special place to live, I just can’t wait.

Well here we are, Blogtober 5^th…  I’m doing ok so far.  How about you?  I wonder what stage the house will be by the end of Blogtober???  Exciting times.



Dream Home update...

One of the things we like about the land that our dream home is being built on is the trees.  We plan to keep the bush at the back of the block quite natural and add native plantings amongst the tree to enhance the beauty of the bushland. 

When we bought the block the house site was already cleared and our designer has worked the house beautifully into the space.  Unfortunately one, small tree had to go, to provide access to the back of the block.  This morning we cut it down and it became our first wood pile for the new fire place.  It was quite satisfying to spend the time out there working in what will become our yard. 

I’m looking forward to more time spent out there this weekend, but this time planting!  We picked up a nice little collection of natives, free from our council.  They are destined for planting along the dry creek bed that our deck will overlook.  I can’t wait to live there! 

Our dream house amongst the gum trees is underway….

Wordless Wednesday

Excitement and lists

I am all about lists at the moment, with all that is going on I have to do lists coming out my ears!  I do love a good list; it’s so satisfying to cross jobs off!  There are some pretty exciting jobs on my “to do” list at the moment, so when Tinniegirl suggested I share I jumped at the chance.   

Little Guy is going to spend a little time in the country with his grandparents this week, so I actually have a fair chance of getting to most of the jobs on this weeks list!

It doesn’t look good for the rain easing up anytime soon in these parts though – trust us to start building right when they predict the wettest summer in years!