07
Oct
2009
movin’ On Up
This week we learned our upstairs neighbors (the ones with the dog that bit me, yes) bought a house. The more spacious apartment above us and next door were becoming available! Danielle and I decided to seize this opportunity to join the world of the surface dwellers and forsake our mole-men brethren for good. Yesterday we looked at the two spaces and decided we’d rather take the bigger one, even if it is more money every month.
This leads to two things. Firstly, we will need to budget our money much more efficiently than we did. The extra rent per month is pretty much all the flex we have in our current budget, so we have to stop doing things like buying music, going to the movies or buying pizza when we don’t feel like cooking. Another thing we’re going to do is reduce the cable package we have. We don’t watch ANY of the channels we pay for really (truth be told, we watch more television shows online than on the actual television) so that’s a waste.
The second thing, and the more pertinent to this blog, is the spare bedroom. It’s going to be a studio! This is the most exciting part for me. I’m going to set up workbenches, a makeshift slop sink, throw a muslin down and just go nuts. I’ve been trying to create a workspace separate from a room with a computer in it for a while now, for obvious reasons. Internet access is to our generation what a television was to the kids before us, a constant and almost insurmountable distraction.
Of course the studio won’t belong just to me. Danielle has her own creative endeavors happening at the same time. She’ll have an area to sew and make jewelery without having to run back and forth between the kitchen and office.
In other news: I was cold this morning so I put on a sweater. Turns out I have two collars now. I look ridiculous.
Who dresses like this?
I’ll keep updating while we pack and move, and give you a step by step walk-through of the studio’s creation. Things might be busy around here, but I’m never too busy for my readers, and letting you see where and how I work is what this site is all about.
