Another Fall Art Tour has come and gone! It's such a pleasure every year to see the familiar faces of guests who return to our studio, and to meet all the new visitors who join us.
It takes us weeks to get the shop cleaned up and organized for the show. It's always a little difficult to get back to work, disturbing the pristine condition of the empty workbench, returning the floor to its dusty self and the tools to their relaxed disarray. We tell ourselves that this time we're going to keep up the charade a bit longer, keep the place tidier, make a real effort to put everything away and blow off the dust at the end of each day so that we might start off each morning with a clean palette. And perhaps we do so for a week or two, maybe even a month. Then old habits creep back in; "I'm going to need all these clamps tomorrow, after all, so why bother to hang them up only to heft them down again?" It's a slippery slope. In the end, it's good to have an excuse at least once a year to clean out the crevices.