Inspired by a look around the garden, we ended up painting stones and experimenting with water colour inks using the wet on wet watercolour technique.
Dressing for Christmas
Here are a few shots of the studio and shopette space to give you an idea of what it looks like now.
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A Christmas market
It s been a while since I did any sort of market. The last one was at the end of Feb 2019, where we were all speculating about the likelihood of a lockdown in France. Now as we enter a supposed 5th wave, I am going to sell a few things (hopefully) at my friends house. She puts on a 4 day event in her delightful studio which is full of things she has been making all year. Astrid is a charming German lady, a clothes designer originally, who does Christmas decoration LARGE and sells off some of her family heirlooms too.
The studio so far
As we hurtle towards winter the studio is now a recognisable building, not just a huge layer of gravel concrete and block work.
Thanks to Covid and supply chain meltdowns, the gift that keeps on giving, we have seen raw materials rocket in price. Any budget that we might have imagined is just a distant memory.
We stand back and look at the build taking shape, and feel poor but chuffed.
Views to the valley we have never had before the build
Fitting the industrial metal roof
The larch cladding appears and so does a real feel of how the finished building will look