Moving Day

Today is the day that we are renting a 26' moving truck and fork lift to finally move all my stuff from storage in Niagara Falls, Ontario to Batavia, NY. Woohoo. I can't wait to have all my glass and equipment here. My clothes, on the other hand, are a faint memory to me and I probably can't fit into them anymore. But now I won't have to keep saying to Lance...."I have one of those....but it is in STORAGE". My nagging will stop on that subject anyway :)

It will be a full on day with about 180 boxes of stuff, 6 full crates of fusible glass, molds, tools, my huge craft book and magazine collection, a wee bit of furniture, kilns, oxygen generator, oh yeah....the 5' white marble Buddha from Vietnam. It is a beautiful Buddha and has been waiting patiently in the storage locker to be released. Lance even had placed a towel around it's head so that it could not see the ugliness of it's surroundings. Too funny...but very thoughtful. The picture is of the Buddha in Calgary before it made another long journey to Niagara Falls.

The forklift is a definite must for the Buddha and for the crates of glass we have to deal with. Thank God we have 2 strapping young lads to also help us with our mission today.

Well, I have to go and make some more samples for a countertop we are working on so I had better get cracking. Lance will be here in the studio pushing me to get ready for the move before I know it....so onward ho.

Early Morning Sunrise

Hoorah.....I finally decided to start posting "stuff" on my blog. Spare time has not been my friend. There are always too many things to do here at the glass studio with just Lance, my darling husband, and myself running it. But I did make it this far.....so I will continue on with my writing.

I awoke, again, at 5:30am with tons of thoughts and ideas running through my head. This is a common occurance with me since there is always a ton of things to do and think of while operating, teaching and creating our own work here at OATKA Glass Studio and School of Glass.

The glass studio is located on the 2nd floor of a 19th century warehouse. Our loft space, where we live, is attached to our studio. We are the only ones that live in this large warehouse. Wandering the halls at night kind of freaks out some of our friends when they are here visiting. It has never bothered me. It is very surreal experience that is hard to discribe until you have been here with us....wandering the halls and passageways....at night. We have beautiful huge windows throughout the space that mostly overlook a historic graveyard that houses amazingly large beautiful trees. I love trees. So when you look out of our windows, it is like being in a tree house.... all you see are the trees. I love it...and of course all the light that floods into the space.

Early morning is my favorite time of the day. It is quiet here in the studio, the birds are always chattering in the trees of the graveyard, and I am by myself with my thoughts. The crows are the only ones that are making noise at the moment. It is my favorite time to start creating new projects or revise and continue on ones that I have started.

The sunrise today was quite beautiful with the pink, magenta, blue, and gray tones illuminating the clouds in the sky. The midsections of the trees in the graveyard were beautifully backlit in spots....I have got to capture that in glass. The grays were the wisps of rain clouds intruding in on the brilliantly highlighted sunrise clouds. The gray has overtaken the sky now....I think we are to get a little rain today. There is definitely the hint of fall in the air. I know...I know...no one wants to here that the summer season is coming to an end. But I am in love with all the seasons that come upon us....some not so gently. It is the movement through the everchanging seasons that makes life interesting...I think anyway.

Well, I think I have blah, blahed enough for today. We have a show in a couple of weeks time that we have to get pieces made for and ongoing client jobs to complete and do samples for. Life is never boring around here....that I can say with certainty....and I wouldn't have it any other way.