As we pack up the stoffobeads Studio and head to the east, I am pondering a new shop set up. I have toyed with several ideas. The new stoffobeads compound is located in a residential area, more so than in the past. The compound is equipt with a storage shed, which may be retro-fit into a studio. No power, no windows, no AC or heat which will mean some serious retro-fitting will be necessary. So it may also remain simply a storage shed......

A quick search of the net... I found everthing from ideas of making studio space out of buses, railcars, cargo boxes, vintage trailers, and a variety of prefab shed formats. The recent edition of Dwell magazine has some very nice high end stuff, but a bit out of our price range. $10K for a small studio, that is a lot of beads. Im open to suggesitons form those of you in the blogsphere.

I am thinking about renting studio space and will also explore that option. Maybe a self storage shed or industrial space in town will fit the bill. I will be exploring a bunch of options.

This weekend, since the studio is shut down and in a state of disassembly in preparation for packing and moving, we watched some cool videos. Thanks to Netflix who have several Chihuly videos. We watched two fabulous videos "Chihuly short cuts" and another one "Chihuly Gardens and Glass" that had some amazing footage of great hot glass work. Im inspired to create a Chihuly style chandelier for the digs. Once I set up the new studio, I will buy some profile tube and get cracking on making my own mini-chihuly.

Found a wicked torch for sale for about $600 and it looks just huge and killer. Perhaps when we get settled in, I may still have some $ left to buy a new torch. It looks like a CC burner but half or a third the price. Hmmm got to keep that site bookmarked.

This will likely be the last posting for a bit while we close down here and set up there......