![]() ![]() (Though I've resisted the urge to really renovate by stripping wallpaper, refinishing floors, adding skylights, painting - ah, a girl can dream.) What follows are a lot of photos with annotation. I've spent a lot of the fall trying to get things arranged in my studio to make it both more inviting and better suited to my work. For another, with two kids off at college and one studying marine conservation in the Seychelles off Africa (jealous, jealous, jealous), my nest will finally be empty this spring, so there's not really the need for me to hang out in Family Central anymore.Īnd finally, I'm grudgingly admitting a little more distance (and a flight of stairs) between me and the fridge might not be a bad idea. Or finish homework projects (because everyone else here seems to prefer working at the kitchen table too). ![]() For one thing, working at the kitchen table has meant constantly shifting things from the table to my studio whenever we've needed to do things like eat dinner. But this year, one of my major resolutions is to really and truly start working in my studio (shown above, in a rare tidy-ish state, though if you have more orderly habits, it might not seem that way to you). ![]()
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