Welcome to my studio

Studios, workspaces, ateliers, many different terms for spaces that feed our souls. My Studio is magic. Filled to the brim with lace, vintage bits and glittery things that I've collected along the way.  It's magic because I believe it is!

 I carefully brought each piece back, to create a nest. A safe place to create, to love and to nurture each idea into fruition. 

Prim Pumpkin studio boasts things I have toted with me for years. As I surround myself with these vintage items, I take comfort in the many stories that each item holds. The fabric that was once a mourning jacket, now a piece of a quilt.  The quilt... part of a transformation. First a mourning coat worn during the most heart wrenching of times, then worked into a quilt of silks and satins. The quilt has held places of prominence in my life and home for so long and now brings a smile to my finger-tips, enchants my boy and is a catcher for positive energy and  of tears if need be. I love keeping memories ...

In my studio you will always see art dolls in various states of love.  I spend so much time with each pumpkin that sometimes they like to stay in the studio for a bit.  I give to them and they give to me.

This Pumpkin is swathed in colors that I am pulled towards.  Soft buttery oranges and pale blue green create the feel of Autumn, a time and color palette I am comfortable with.  The pumpkin  pictured above is very special. She is a Granny, Her charges are loose in the studio and it may be sometime before she can collect them all.  She has that wonderful Matriarch feeling about her. 

Did I mention my love for vintage suitcases?  Yes, I do love them.   Where have you been all my life you wonderful suitcase?

If you look close you will see a gift from my friend Grimitives.  Kaf send us this beautiful Frida and she sits proudly in the studio, she is a happy doll! My love for birdcages has carried in to the studio as well.  This one is a round top favorite!

Hand dyed silks and pink roses... hmmmmm... the stuff of dreams!

I have apothecary keeps all over to house small bit of that and this that I simply must keep!

A few of the forgotten friends that I just can't say no to.  Imperfect dolls find  their way to me, they know they can come and live in my studio and take tea with the others.   They are all feathers in my nest.

I take responsibility for the energy I bring to the studio. I try to be observant of the energy and honor it.

 I wish I could have each one of you dear readers to my studio.... not all at once, but with time to sit and soak in the inspiration as I do.  Next year I'd like to have an open house and let you peek into my studio!