In the zone

Some time ago I was given an old doctors desk. It was in three pieces, two sets of drawers and a very wet and damaged desk top.

It’s all been dried out, oiled, bees waxed, glued, and this week, I covered the top in leather. A half cow skin, complete with brand, made me keen to make it a lovely thing. I believe I did. Not perfect but perfect for my studio, I love it.

The completed desk has made it necessary for an entire re organisation of the studio to accommodate its fabulousness.

The initial move into this space was hurried. Some months on and the room has been efficiently divided into zones with some considered curtain action.

On entering the door, the door whose handle had a hissy fit mid week and locked me in my studio, luckily Em answered her phone and was happy to come and let me out, super luckily as BelVita understandably couldn’t make out why I’d ring her from ten or so metres away so didn’t pick up the call I made to her phone.

Let’s try that sentence again.

On entering the door there is the ‘welcome zone’. The welcome zone includes jars of sweets, jugs of water and posh hand cream, it also includes hand sanitiser as this zone doesn’t welcome London’s public transport germs.

On the right is the Versailles pattern cutting zone, gold table, multiple gold framed mirrors and work in progress rails.

The ‘under Versailles zone’ is a storage/dumping area that is unlikely to offend aesthetically due to it’s shiny lid.

Versailles is followed by the subtly curtained, mannequin, stock storage and library zone, over stuffed but self explanatory I hope.

To it’s left, directly opposite the door is the printer/office zone where the desk and our fathers leather chair live. Behind the chair, along the window side of the room, with views into office spaces the other side of the alley, is the sewing zone housing 2 industrial machines and a variety of other beasts, the kitchenette zone is hidden in there too. The next and last zone is Marmalade’s windowed, weaving zone and fabric storage.

I think I’ve written zone too many times, it’s looking weird, I’m zoned out.

I’ve always thought that the brand looks like alien writing, but it’s just occurred to me that I might have been looking at it upside down.