Shop front before transformation

This is my new shop ready to be fitted and filled with lovely stuff! It will be opened on 17th November in time for the Christmas Arts and Crafts Market that will be open the same day, so come along and have a nosey....

Now back to that list I have of things I have to do ....

A new start

'Internal energy showing itself extremely in a variety of forms' 2000 a quote from my comments book at my ECA Degree Show.  Twelve years on and I've finally rested on the notion that it's okay to want to make a variety of things, as this makes life interesting! So I'm going to open a gallery and inspire all those people who love art, crafts to look at and to make themselves.

The gallery is called The Black Rock Gallery and is to be located on the high street in Newtonmore. The gallery is named after the prominent hill that is the backdrop to our village and is called 'Creag Dhubh' meaning black rock.  I didn't want to spend every day spelling it out as I do that most days with my own house name 'Fasgadh' which means 'safe haven'. Lovely to have it but extra work as you can imagine, hopefully I can include the gaelic wording somewhere inamongst the marketing.

I'm waiting patiently and excitedly to see what Jules Akel graphic designer from Dalwinnie comes up with for my new logo.... but have so many things to do... shop fitting, produce searching (my favourite job), boring stuff like insurance and merchant banking... making and advertising... I think I'll have a cup of tea...