Saturday and a new experience, The North Shore Art Crawl in my own studio

Wow you guys, what an amazing day!This is my first ever North Shore Art Crawl.I thought this would be a lovely experience and it was.At best, I thought, there would be someone who would visit me in the studio and at worst, no one would come and I would have the whole day to paint away in my lovely space.So at 9:30am, I put out the signs, opened the gate as wide as it would go, made a big carfare of tea, put out some cookies and turned the heat on in the studio.Come on in!One of our appropriate signs.Proof!Honestly, this space is the best gift I could have given to myself. I loved every minute of it today.My little red sports car is parked outside, and I miss it, but in a very selfish way, I don't want to give up half of this space to bring it back in Sunday night!!!Let me show you around a little and share the day.My sketchbooks and journals were open on a little round table ready for people to browse thru. And the driftwood tic tac toe game was a temptation for lingering. (Who can resist a quick game of tic tac toe?)Here's my darling girl modelling the work bench on the South side. I love this view and love having the Rapunzel ivy plant there just hanging breaking up the physical space from being a solid line. I love using my vintage tea cups that I always use for my Art in the Garden days, and love the rugs I bought at the thrift store just to throw on the concrete floor. So much nicer with rugs.Here is a shot of the art table.So let me tell you my method. The most expensive thing in this space are the fairy lights on the West side and they cost $25.This table = $20, rugs = about $15, chairs = $5 each..etc, etc.All second hand, all saved or recycled or bought form the Salvation Army, all perfectly fantastically vintage-ly perfect.Save the world one repurposed piece at a time. Right?I put loads of art supplies on the table so visitors could have some fun.And got my own art supplies together for a day of painting.Chloe's friend Christina came for a visit and ended up spending the whole day.And laughter and art ensued.While I painted a canvas.And people came! And some of my little birds flew out the door with their new owners.And before I knew it, the sun wound around to the west window......and the day came to the end.So looking forward to tomorrow. :D