Frustration reigns in the Oodade studio -- or maybe I should say, the lack thereof. The Department of Sports, Reacreation, Arts & Culture haven't quite managed to be as efficient as we need them to be. I can't quite remember if I wrote about it in my last post, but when Noni and I arrived at the art cente for our appointment to view our studio (they have given it to us - in theory), we ended up having to wait for an hour in the car, with numerous calls bouncing backwards and forwards between me and Brenda who said the lady who was supposed to be meeting us was 'stuck at the municipality and will be there any minute now.' After an hour, Noni just had to get home and Layla was getting increasingly miserable and vocal about it - so we decided to give up the ghost and arrange another meeting for later in the week. More than a week and a half has slipped down the drain of the bath of my creative frustration (oh the drama, the drama!) So much so that I have had to have a serious rethink about how the business is structured. You see, Layla no longer goes to school... My dad calls her The Boundary Queen --- and the new kids were just all too boisterous and in-her-space: so after the first day, she refused point blank to return : leaving me in a terrible quandary: absolutely not a drop of time to work! Also, the very dire consequences of not having a studio to work from is that all my materials are piled up in shabby cardboard boxes in my MINIATURE home -- with the tiniest rectangle of dressingtable to work on. So...................................
With Layla Rose a perpetual but still adorable handful who leaves me not a shred of peace in which to work, and with my heart set on establishing Noni as being a supplier in her own right, I am focusing on redesigning how Oodade will function as a company. (Layla is wanting us to go back home... See what I mean re: the handfulness of my Princess?!) More news as soon as I can!
PS. This is my 'studio' at the moment:
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