I've been having issues with backache lately when working on my tressle table, so we spent Sunday morning at Jesse's workplace to help...

This was another one of those unproductive weeks in the painting arena When I got into the studio on Tuesday to go do a pour, I found my floors were wet & had to lift all the floor mats just to find the cement was soaked due to the heavy rain we've had. Needless to say, my whole week was rearranged & nothing but cleanup got done & then I had to wait for the cement to dry before I could put my floor mats back. Auckland has taken quite a battering with flooding in many of our f

It's taken a few weeks to get the last few things sorted but studio is finally completely finished. We're still missing some signage but here's what you'll find when you come visit me in my studio. The door to the left is a storage closet that has been fixed & can now be used & to the far left is our house entrance. When she renovated, the landlady insisted the studio also needed inside access to the house so visitors could comfortably use the bathroom so they broke through t

Well, my studio is almost finished. I still need to sort out the walk-in storage cupboard, but thanks to Lai's brilliant thinking, that mess remains hidden behind the doors for now... The exhibition hanging system has also arrived this week & I just need to get a rail to hang it so I can get an exhibition onto the big wall. Who knows, maybe I'll be able to sell some paintings when I have people in the studio for paint parties. Then there's still the blind for the window that

Now we can host paint parties & exhibitions right here in my studio... I just need to add an exhibition hanging system to the exhibition wall... Let the healing heARTs begin...

This weekend Jesse came along to help us do the last few touches to the studio. Now I just need to paint the additions...

Good morning beautiful people. I thought I'd take a moment this morning to show you my creative spaces where all my creative magic happens with God's help. I do not have a studio, since our 23 year old moved back home in June last year & took over what used to be our study thus everything that what was in there had to move into the lounge. Homes are so much smaller here in New Zealand than what I'm used to from growing up in South Africa. It's a very tight squeeze but it's co