Early summer in the new studio

Elias is seven weeks old this week. I can scarcely believe it myself. A woman at the grocery checkout line was admiring him in all his little-ness the other day. She smiled and said "How old is your baby?" and when I told her seven weeks, tears welled up in her eyes and she said "My baby is graduating from college today!" (It was graduation day for the University of Colorado here in Boulder). Which of course made me and my hormones start tearing up a bit, too. With this second baby I can already feel it going fast.


So this hooray banner is one of the few items that I have purchased so far for the room that will belong to Elias from the lovely Caitlin and her Etsy shop. I know what you're thinking. Most people work on the nursery before the baby is born. And yes, for all my raging, unfulfilled nesting instincts it would have been nice to work on a baby's room while I was pregnant. We have instead been focused on this little building, aka my new studio and creative space.

I laugh when I look at it now, because it's almost done. It seems like no big deal for as small as it is, but Brett has given up just about every weekend the past few months to build this for me. I am still in awe. You may remember my post from January when Brett first started working on it. Now all that's left to do is drywall and move in.

Once we move my jewelry benches and everything to the studio we will have our basement as a new family hang-out space, which we sorely need. In turn, I will be able to free up the other bedroom to make a new room for Lino, and his old room will become the new space for Elias Phew! I am worn out just thinking about it. More to come soon.