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ANOTHER kitchen cookstove!
posted by: artgrrl on: 22.04.08 (view in blog) |
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We’re still committed to getting the 2 antique stoves up and running but because we have an accelerated schedule and we’ll actually need to cook I bought a new electric kitchen stove. I got it new because there was a clearance model at Lowe’s that was the same price or less than funky used ones. It’s got the nice flat cook-top, not those ugly raised flat coil things. I was wishing for black to match the way cool referigerator but it’s white. The cook top is black and grey though, so that makes it nicer. For a brand new stove w/ self-cleaning oven? A steal!
I have to admit, I did sneak back over and look at the black one with smooth cook-top a few times. Very, very sharp and I almost....came very, very close to just buying it. At twice the price though. I came to my senses and bought the clearance model (still very nice and brand new!) as well as a full set of iron patio furniture (table, four chairs, umbrella) AND a brand new electrical distribution circuit breaker load box thingy that we really needed to upgrade our electrical system. ALL for the same price as that cool black range. Besides—the focus here is (was) supposed to be on the ANTIQUE stoves!
I also liked the 10” annual pots—would be nice for the porch, for gallery visitors to walk by the flowers. But they were $16 each. Yikes! So I bought a bag of potting soil and a six-pack each of snapdragons, violas, dianthus, and some other little minature pansy-looking thing, divided them up into 3 - 15” pots for less than the price of one 10!” And they look great on the windowsill in front. We’ve decided we need a descending plant on each end.....when I go in tomorrow or the next day for the porch/garden bench that will go in front of the window I’ll pick up a couple jasmine or some such.
Ramón, down at Cortina Gallery, gave us a flag today, perfect, same color as the house! His partner, Donna, opened up a lovely, high-end tea shop in their gallery and he made all new hand-carved signs. Their flags got in the way of the new signs so they gave one to the new couple opening their gallery in the old dance hall and one to us. Visitors to Truchas? WE WILL treat you to tea & yummy stuff like homemade scones and cream fraiche or baked brie at the Gallery Teahouse. It is really quite a marvelous, elegant place. A real treat. The eclairs are nice too and there are different specials and finger sandwiches every day.
I put up curtains in the gallery today, that really tops it off. OK, I really need to take them down and iron them but it’s kind of the New Mexico way. A little dusty, a little wrinkled, but elegant all the way. I also got that weird lateral blind thingy out of the studio and muslin drapes up in there. I need a real curtain rod eventually, but six foot nine of electric fence wire and a couple of nails are doing the trick for now. This over the sliding patio doors I have in there. One nice thing we actually kept rather than tore out. So you can imagine the view from the studio. I know. Pictures. They’re coming. Really they are. I’m not even going to guesstimate when.
Neither of us want to come back here in the evening....we pretty much work there until dark or until we’re just completely spent. It already feels like home, and with both of us on the job things are moving much more quickly. In retrospect, it was probably a waste of time for me to keep the gallery here open to infrequent visitors when I could have been jamming down there getting the place done. However...if I had not been here keeping the gallery open when the collectors did come in, we would not have sold out $6K+ of artwork that we did. So.
It’s so nice to have things moving to the better spot and be working alongside my husband though. It was lonesome here and it’s such a better, more welcoming spot for gallery visitors there. WAY more visible as well. It’s all so exciting!
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