Alles neu macht der Mai - April showers bring May flowers

nevertheless there are some new "Mandala Pendants" in my shop .

Studio Renovating Update... and "Ikea Hack"

 not ready yet, (haste makes waste!) .......
But here are some improvements we made:

My husband helped me  with the Ikea Ivar cupboards -, (actually it was his idea to put them on wooden posts from wall to wall, clever! ) 

I cut the shelfs in half to get place for the tools on the doors.

I put some mosaic tiles on the sill

...and made a rack for all the ledges and bars ...

dowelled onto the wall, so the floor can be cleaned easily

 What is left, (besides approx. 20 additional "To Do`s"), is to prime and paint the door after having removed the old coating!

have a wonderful weekend all!

light at the end of the tunnel !

More than two month ago the renovating project started....and now there is a prospect of an end.

Clearly there is a lot of work to do, but the worst part´s over.

Men at work!

nobody can imagine the hellish noise we had that day!

"All you need is Time ! ...(and love of course ! )

Not easy, but I found time to finish some projects anyway!

Another pair of chevron earrings from the "indian summer" tribal series....

Chevron Globe pendant

But this is my main business right now! :

...I know, the before picture is looking better , but that will change definitely and I´m looking forward to having more time again for creating , blogging and watching what you all have been creating meanwhile !

wish you a great "long" weekend!

all that was left

are holes in the wall!

 ....and piles of cartons with tools and working equipment

What happened so far :   renovating 1

                                       renovating 2

..to be continued...

.......first sense of archievement

The "before and after" Story...(or how the oil spike causes more space for creativity!

These are my new friends! ( in magenta!)

10 kg of filler
Paint for the floor....and for the wall(no foto, just imagine 2 buckets of whitewash paint!)

We decided to say goodbye to our oil guzzling heating system and to connect to the district heating grid
and so I´m going to renovate this storage room.

But...the best is yet to come!
here you can see the 1,5m x 3m sized workroom, too small to use several tools at the same time!

totally messed up! ...but follow me through this mysterious window....

you can see a huge iron monster, the no longer used oil tank!

In the next few month we will take down the wall and then a company will dismantle the tank.

And I can see space for my metalwork and so much other crafting projects....Yippee....!!

It will become a great workroom with a heating (I didn´t have one so far), and running water (I didn´t have so far)....

but before lot´s of work!

I intend to log the ongoing process by camera

That´s all for the moment.

ending with magenta :

Olive shaped earrings available here