yet i knew we wanted it before we even stepped inside. this house was no different when we bought it- it had been on the market for nearly a year, looked kind of sad and forgotten, and was oddly chopped up inside without even a place for a refrigerator to go. i buy the lonely houses, the neglected and forlorn. I never buy the houses that other people want. but our lives have changed and we need more room- and an opportunity i could not pass-up has landed in our laps. sunny and bright, warm and cozy- with gorgeous conservation land behind and within walking distance of both schools and the shop- it has been a great place to live. This house has been a wonderful little refuge for us. just around the corner, but moving is still moving. and at some soon point i will land- firmly and happily- in what is now only the future. i have been working on my house and the houses of clients, and i have been ordering new products that will bring 'home and homme' closer than ever to the vision i have had for my shop from the beginning. i have not been writing- i am caught between the grief over the past and the excitement of the future- and unable to decide which moment to capture on 'paper'. i, however, feel like the ground under my very feet is shifting and i am excited and flighty and having an incredibly difficult time focussing on any one thing. The days are a little bit quieter around here without them.ĭean works away on taking beautiful photographs of all our new products- chipping away at this enormous task we are undertaking of putting everything online in our new webstore (- coming soon!). these fine young women are on grand adventures of which i could not be more proud and i bestow enormous blessings on both of them.
#Claw foot tub plus
and molly- much cherished molly- who has worked with me for as many years as kate plus some more- has graduated from her masters program and taken on the very big life task of a 'real job'. kate- much loved kate-who worked with me for many years and since then has continued to be my friend and confident- packed up her life last weekend with her beloved and moved to chicago to study under a well known pastry chef. i am not sad- in fact very little is changing in terms of what we do and how we do it- but we will no longer be 'the 'tub' and that change marks both an ending and a beginning like any other.Īnd at the same time the heart of this place- the people who work here- are also undergoing major transitions. the sign guy is coming this very afternoon to pick up our big sign and take it away to re-paint it with our new name and tag-line 'local, handmade, vintage'. We are literally on the verge of our 're-branding'- the name change that will mean that 'the claw foot tub' (technically speaking) will no longer exist- it will be re-born as 'home and homme'.
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a shop is no different- not really- we keep moving forward and we keep, therefore, going through comings and goings- leavings and arrivals. there is a great awareness in my days of the endings and beginnings that we all go through- over and over again- in our daily lives. I have been intensely aware during these last weeks of the incredible changes our little shop has gone through in the last few years.