Since my last blog-entry about building my new studio a lot has happened. We had a lot of bad weather so it's not finished yet, but lucky for me also some nice dry and even sunny days (although not always on the days we didn't need to go to work). And I had a lot of help every so often but mainly I had to do a lot of the building all by my self.

So I can not help but feeling a bit like a real carpenter lately.

Anyway here's a photo-impression of the 3th building day:

After that day most of the time I was working alone because Albert had some day-shifts at work, Eric and his wife Caroline went away for the weekend and my brother in law Ben also had other things to do. But Eric got me started with the roof before he left and after that I really was on my own...

First I nailed the plywood and lucky for me this isn't a fashion blog because I absolutely look twice my size in these trousers and me telling you I had a bad hairday is about the understatement of the year ;)

On the wooden roof I nailed the roof-asphalt (not sure it's called this way in English so feel free to correct me here...)

And after that I finished the roof with the asphalt shingles:

Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures from the next steps so... the roof is finished, I installed the doors, placed the window and since I'm inspired by Swedish houses we started painting the front with a lovely shade of blue, which also will be used for the sides and the back while the doors, window and the eaves will be creme-white.

This is were we left of before the weekend:

During the weekend Albert and I painted the sides and back of the studio and the front again and tomorrow I hope to finish painting the walls inside. Start with the hatches and give the doors and eaves a second layer. Wednesday both me and Albert don't have to go to work so hopefully we can put in the laminate flooring. After that it's waiting for my Dad to come back from holiday to put in the electricity.

But I do hope I will be able to at least start to move in some of my glass-stuff before the weekend and maybe just maybe I can do some lampworking using an extension reel providing the electricity needed for the concentrater that produces the oxygen for my Minor burner. I really, really want to do some lampworking soon because I so missed doing that!