she.jpgI'm excited because my business partner Cheu found us a really great studio space. Right now there are half-finished projects piled up around my house everywhere, and with continual rains like we've been having I can't spray paint or varnish anything outside for fear it will be drenched at any moment. I know my wonderful husband sometimes wonders things like, why is this chair half covered with alligator-skin paper in the middle of the living room? And those are good questions. If I were the sort of person who did one thing straight through and then another thing it might even be manageable, but I'm not, with the result that I'm partway through about 9 things. And also it's really dim in my house, a good thing in tropical architecture because it means it's cool, but a bad thing in terms of wanting to sew something without ending up blind like the tediously noble big sister in Little House.

Cheu had been wanting to find an industrial space, and the ones we saw were indeed great, with 15-ft ceilings and big areas to work in. But the only ones we could ever afford would be out in Tuas or something (read: noweheresville) and I couldn't easily get there without a car. Enter the greatest neighborhood ever: Little India! She found us the top floor of an old shophouse sandwiched between a bar and a Thai massage parlor, which--yeah, like you think. The massage parlor denizens hang their laundry up in the back on a shared space there, so maybe we'll make lots of interesting new friends. I'm just dizzy at the prospect of having all my stuff in one well lit, open space. We're going to give it 6 months, and if we're not making money selling all our cool refurbished furniture and artwork at that point we'll give it up.

I've decided to buy a new sewing machine, because my (1970's model) has given up the ghost, and I'm looking at one of those fancy embroidery machines where you can program new designs for them. Does anybody use one?