For some reason, my studio seems to feature a lot in Puttythons, either doing something in it (occasionally) or doing something TO it (more frequent).  Last April 2024 Puttython was going through old craft kits to “get rid of”, and obviously trying out paint colors.  Which took us forever.  But we finally settled on a bizarre sort of pink color that changes throughout the day.  Which is pretty normal for our weirdo house, so that tracks.

You can see that April 2024 Puttython post here.

October 2024 – 9:00 am

First kick-off huddle or the “this is what I’m going to attempt to do for 24 hours” starter huddle.  A decent amount of people present.  We share our projects and mine remains the usual same, cleaning something.

So I’m tackling the “Studio”, the combined space for my jewelry making, Marty’s painting, and the 3D printers.

The room has been painted, the old shelving taken out and replaced with the bracket and board shelving.  The shelves for my space are still the old one, I wanted it exactly the way it was.  That was a bit of a back-and-forth.  But yeah.

Here’s what the Studio looks like at the beginning:

 

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11:30 am

Okay, set this page up and my Puttyverse check-in thread.  Had “breakfast” (Chef Boyardee ravioli), and now getting to it.

Starting with the clean-up of the molding and then doing corrections of the paint lines.  Then scrubbing paint spills and cleaning up where the shelves and bench will go.  Doing laundry on the side.  Finally getting to drag the shelves and bench into general place.

1:30 pm

Phoenix supervises and I ask the group ideas about the plug here.  We need this plug but it’s always been behind the bookshelves.  So, do I cut a hole in it or do I keep it where the outside edge is at (except it needs to move closer to the wall…).  Final consensus is to cut through it after figuring out where the final resting place of the shelves are… except it turned out to be a moot point later anyway.

So, I started trying to figure out where that place to cut might be…. but first, I needed to get the jeweler’s bench into place to figure out where the shelves’ final resting place would be.

2:30 pm

Futzing around, chatting and what not in the main room.  Have moved the bench into place but then having to put in the “Soldering Station” which included my tiny crock pot that I use for my pickle solution.  It’s been a really long time since I have worked on anything requiring “pickling”.  Pickle is an acidic solution that helps clean up metal after you’ve soldered it, the process of which can produce “firescale”.  This is a citric acid solution versus the usual nasty chemical stuff you can get (and I ain’t using sulphuric acid in my shop).  Basically, citric acid a much gentler version.  It’s the same stuff you might use to create actual pickles.  The solution (which probably also included some dissolved copper) had dried up and grown some pretty amazing crystals, like those old fun science kits where you grow stuff.

Pretty cool.  Gonna nerd out here a bit.  Dunno what the “solution” chemical formula would be.  Citric acid is HOC(CH₂CO₂H)₂.  Then if you added in whatever the dissolved copper is… erm… I have no idea.  But those are still some pretty good crystal shapes.  The green color in there is the copper, I’m assuming.  Or at least that’s what my salt-etching solution looks like when it dries up.  Blue when still liquid. (which is just salt and copper).

5:00 pm – 8:30pm

Before the 5 pm check-in huddle, I had the shelves, soldering station, and jeweler’s bench back in place.

But as I was staring at it, I remembered what Marty had said about wanting the “openness” of it, like the bracket and board and the other side of the room, and I noted I wasn’t sure if I was fond of the white backing myself.  I WANT containment in my shelves and I put my foot down on it.  But I had said I might be willing to paint the backing pink so that I had the containment and there would be no space at the back for things to fall into a hole.  So, since the very top shelf was an addition you can stick on and has its own backing separate from the huge one of the larger shelf, I decided to pull one off to see how it looked.

I thought it may look better and queried the group about what they thought about it.  Seems like the consensus was that it potentially looked better too.  So, I took off the top shelf, leaned the entire thing over, dug the nails out of the cardboard backing and pulled out the main backing, standing the whole thing back up.  And yep even better looking.

Since the backing apparently was actually structural, at least the sense of keeping it square, I had to fish a level out of the garage, which was surprisingly easy to find.  Well, ok, it was pretty easy because my super Virgo, IO (Industrious/Overfocused – a sensorimotor characteristic) has EVERYTHING labelled.  Once it was level, jamming it flush with the wall seemed to keep it place.  Marty can earthquake secure them to the wall later.

9:30 pm – 11:30 pm

Well, the other shelf was apparently the wrong one.  I had

Marty drag the shelves back into the room but he didn’t the right two.  So I set up the wrong one onto cardboard but it was so wobbly, I had to inventive about shoving it and holding

it stable at the same time.  Bringing the new one in was much easier since the backing kept it still.  But I quick took the backing off of that one, back up, level off and smoosh.

Definitely think the pink works better.

Then I sat for a while after pulling in all the shelves from the other unit out in the living room, and eventually all of them trying to choose the most “white” of them.  Let’s aim for the “least dingy”.

 

 

 

 

11:30 pm

WHAT IS THIS VOODOO MAGIC!?!?!?!

Several pieces of slathered toast and the forget-the-bread-where-are-the-spoons spoonfuls later, time for bed.

9:00 am

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(From April….  Just TEMPLATE AT THIS POINT)

Next steps…

• Continue to go through items and try to make firm choices.
• Figure out what to DO with all the kits.  Try to give away, and then Goodwill?
• Maybe find some boxes to put loose stuff in for pulling kept stuff off shelves.
• Dismantle shelves, or at least pull apart the stacked units.
• Definitely got to pick a color.  Folks saw the swatches on the wall.  We don’t really like any of them. (well, I like the nice rose on the top row last on the left, but he doesn’t so that’s out)
• Paint prep!  And paint! (both take forever…)
• Then install workbenches.
• Reinstall the shelves we are keeping, install shelves above the workbenches and upper walls.
• Repopulate the shelves, replace the 3D printers into new homes, etc.
• Final clean up.
• Flop down on floor and sleep.