Simply..excited....

21/3/2015

..to be doing my own thing!

I can't tell you the surge of energy and excitement I'm feeling since I decided to just do my own thing.

The studio will be blitzed (Kondo method!) as I prepare to make it look fabulous for opening on Saturdays and Sundays from Easter till October - these will be my fixed working days. If visitors come - wonderful - if not, I have work to do.

I am painting a sign to put up, will ask people to spread the word, hope that some of the (admittedly few) tourists who use our single track road will stop by and ..see how it goes! The coffee pot will be on and I'll welcome anyone who is interested in what I do to have a leisurely browse through my paintings and collages.

Among the papers in the studio i found a pile of cuttings and cards and decided it was high time I refreshed my pinboards. Some of the things have been up there for years and years and....it's not that I stopped seeing them as can happen, it's that I really liked the items and the composition, but it's good to stir things up every ten years, don't you think!!

Have you refreshed your pinboards lately?

8 Comments

julia

21/3/2015 09:27:38 am

freda, your enthusiasm is infectious! i, too, am kondoing....my study. it is such a great feeling to clear out the old and bring in fresh stimulation and inspiration...:-)
i wish i was going to be one of the tourists ambling down your lane this summer....all the best with this!

Freda

22/3/2015 07:24:35 am

I wish you were too Julia!

PennyL

21/3/2015 07:48:03 pm

Gosh, I can feel your energy jumping out at me from the screen!
I hope it will be a really successful venture, and that you will have a good balance of having visitors and being able to get on with your work! I wish Scotland wasn't quite so far from Dorset so I could pop in myself!

Freda

22/3/2015 07:26:22 am

I'll have the other five days to work too if I want of course. Dorset's not so very far - maybe one day? Thank you for your good wishes Penny

cath

22/3/2015 02:42:48 am

You sound so joyful focussed it makes me happy too. When you write about working in your studio on Saturdays and Sundays do you mean painting or is writing part of the Work?
Focus, a dedicated time, a place, a 'language' (painting or writing), an invitation to self and others. You are truely an inspiration.

Freda

22/3/2015 07:27:49 am

Oh that's painting. I am so lucky to have the things you list! Thank you for your kind words Cath.

Elizabeth

22/3/2015 07:46:16 am

Will your studio visitors also wander through your gardens? It would be so much fun to see your paintings and then take a walk through that cute red gate! Maybe they will catch you sitting on a bench writing! And see that little bird that visits you, too! Wish I could...

Freda

22/3/2015 08:04:21 am

Well yes! But the garden needs some work doing....better get busy. I hope you can come someday Elizabeth.

Simply..excited....

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