Enter at your own risk

I’ve always wanted a sign on the door to my studio warning potential intruders to stay away while I worked. I spent a long time wanting a studio, too, so long that I had a name for my business/studio before I had the space in which to work. The name I use is Nicholas & Marley. Now I have a large room where I can spread things out and leave everything without worrying that the cats will make their own playground in the glitter and paper clay. I even have a comfortable chair and ottoman where I can sit flipping through magazines for ideas or making sketches or falling asleep dreaming of new whimsies to create.

The only problem I’ve had during the year since my studio came into being is a lack of time. This is what I tell myself because I’ve only completed a handful of the ideas I started. I have several pieces nearly finished, but they’ve been nearly finished now for six months. Maybe “enter at your own risk” isn’t the sign I need on the door of Nicholas & Marley. Perhaps I shouldn’t remind myself right at the threshold of the risk in creating items I hope to show the world, but of the joy in creating, the excitement of trying something new, of experimenting. I know I never have trouble finding the time to play.

My studio is the place where I turn bits and pieces of this and that into figures that make me smile. And if they first make me smile, there is a very good chance they will do the same for others. So I’m thinking a different sign on the door will help me remember this.

Nicholas & Marley’s Laboratory - Welcome