The Super Shipping Station!

The studio is coming along and the fabulous shipping center is shown above. The only other item we're waiting on to complete it is the postal scale that the Mincing Mockingbird has been harping on me to buy, which I finally broke down and ordered and will be arriving something this next week. It's probably ridiculous how much we've been losing in shipping costs because on larger packages we almost always underestimate how much it will be.

We also scored a couple of corner desks from the "AS IS" section of IKEA that we'll be installing this weekend. $160 desk tops for $50 each because of a few scratches and dings. What a bargain!

I'm totally copping out and going to put in a link to Mincing Mockingbird's awesome interview with our new shipping station. She's a bit tempermental but he got some info out of her.

Applying! Applying! Applying!

The past few days we've been applying to fall craft shows, and since most of them are juried, we won't know if we've been accepted for a few weeks. Plus, since at least one of them you only get a six foot table, we applied separately so we could have two tables (and hopefully together).

The studio's still not quite usable even after we both worked on it for an hour or so last night, but Mincy has to paint 10 paintings this weekend for a shop in Portland, so we'd at least better clear off a table top, find some art supplies and ignore the pile of Kim's miscellaneous boxes in the middle of the floor.

Kim's been Found!

I got an e-mail today saying that the gallery owner found "Kim Has a Good Skip". Check out this post to get the back story. Anyway, I can pick up my painting as soon as I can find the time...which is difficult these days.

The update on the housing situation is that we gave our 30 day notice to the apartment manager, and have to be out by July 25. Our closing is supposed to be July 15, so we're keeping our fingers crossed. I'll post photos of the new studio (I'll try to do before and after pictures) as soon as I can get the computer set up.