The Day Before the Open Studio

In times of stress, it’s so important to keep your sense of humor – and be flexible.

I’m thinking of the specific moment in time that you see here when we were attempting to hang the egg paintings in a straight line.

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I was supposed to move the nail up a half-inch, only I was so tired that I moved it down! Bonnie captured the moment with my iPhone for posterity. Fortunately, we weren’t too tired to laugh about it!

Earlier in the day, I spent quite a while arranging paintings on the front steps, only to have Bonnie come home and tell me the display wasn’t working. While I already knew this which is why I asked her advice, it didn’t make me happy to hear it out loud. Nor did I know how to fix it. Apparently Bonnie did because here’s what she came up with – and it looks great!

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For two days, I had experimented with numerous arrangements of small and medium paintings on this front entrance wall, and nothing felt right. When I unpacked this new and larger egg print, I knew that it belonged here (hiding the numerous holes beautifully!).

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As a result, I had to find a new home for these, which ended up working well against the brown (aka Oreo Cookie brown) walls of my studio. Looking at this is making me hungry!

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In the end, somehow everything came together – as it always does – and I even got some sleep Friday night. ( I also sold two paintings off this little wall – the Oreo and the Reese’s.)

Having said that, next year I am going to start my big push to get ready for the Open Studio a month or two earlier. Maybe that will help cut down the last minute stress, always a good thing. Right?