Construction continues...

Progress is being made although it doesn't much look like it. They will put the metal on soon and then we'll be on the downhill slide. The concrete for the porch and the kiln shed still needs to be poured.

Roan Mountain

When I went outside this morning to take the construction picture for today's blog it was already hot (July in Kansas woke up yesterday) and made me long to be back in Western North Carolina. I just had a great idea...I'll take some pictures of the awesome pieces of pottery we bought while there. Our first trip in the motorhome was a "pottery vacation." We first traveled to Quakertown, Pennsylvania and I enjoyed a wonderful brush-making workshop with Linda Stauffer. It was there that I picked up many wonderful tips of what to do with the studio. Linda has a great website... http://www.lindastauffer.com/ and she is simply a very amazing and talented lady. After our stay in Pennsylvania we were off to the mountains of Western North Carolina - more about that later.

I'm looking forward to this afternoon. Joe Summers, Prairie View High School Art Instructor, has planned for the artists of Linn County to gather and see if there is interest in forming an art group. Check back and see how the meeting went!

We've got friends coming this evening for BBQ so I'd better get busy!

Please visit this blog again (and again!) -Janice

Concrete

OMG! Just look! I cannot wait to give you a studio tour when this project is complete! (I'm afraid every sentence is going to have an exclamation mark today!) These guys are great, they know what they are doing and...just look!

Thank goodness you're not seeing a picture of Scout (our Jack Russell Terrier) out there in the middle helping. Early this morning Huck put Toby (our Bearded Collie) in the pen and left Scout out. As soon as the construction crew arrived Scout had to join Toby in the pen. Dog (Matt's Border Collie that is spending his retirement years with us) stays out of the way, he hides out in the bushes waiting for a car to chase.

I wish I had more time to mess around with the computer and figure this stuff out. These three pictures are in the opposite order of how I wanted them to appear. I need a 5th grader to come and do my computer work and then maybe the website for The Studio would be up and going and this blog would look better.

Soon this will be a pottery blog instead of a construction blog. I've appreciated all of the emails and comments of encouragement!

-Janice

Construction

Wow! I can't believe this is finally happening. I've planned, waited, researched, waited, collected equipment, waited, attended classes and workshops, waited, got bids for the construction, waited, ...you get the idea!

Very soon our studio will be open for lots of fun filled adventures in clay. We will be hosting different levels of classes, workshops, raku firings, etc. If there is something specific you're interested in pursuing let us know.

Huck retired June 1st and I tell him he will make a wonderful studio manager and I just get this "are you nuts" look. He is very excited to get all of my pottery stuff out of the garage and basement, I just hope he waits until Brandon is finished with the job. Brandon Johnson is our contractor and I can't say enough about the quality of his work - fantastic! Although Brandon had worked at our rent house I didn't realize he did projects such as The Studio (a pole barn type structure.)

The plan for this blog is to keep anyone interested apprised of what's going on at The Potters' Studio. As the name suggests, there will be many potters involved!

I've posted a few of the construction pictures. Saturday is concrete day!

Stay tuned, Janice