Project Weekend
With the new studio we are enjoying just that much more work/life separation. There’s really only so much you can get in the first place when you love what you do, are self employed, and live at your studio, but we can try 
Other than scheduled shoots and the occasional time-sensitive email or task, work ends at end of day Friday and resumes Monday morning. Weekends don’t otherwise mean a lot to us, but they do mark the regular availability of our friends who have jobs, so it only makes sense to try to organize our lives at least a little to match up. In the summer we don’t get them at all, so we have to take advantage when we can in the fewer-weddings-season!
This weekend has been blissfully office free as we’ve been tackling many of the projects we’ve been planning since taking over the new space. Sure, the office hasn’t even existed and the servers are all unplugged and in a corner to make way for painting and such - but it’s been nice regardless of the reason!
Friday started things off when Darren joined us for some independent theatre at Chapel Arts where we watched Here Be Monsters‘ performance of Jesus Christ: The Lost Years. Here Be Monsters produced our favourite fringe show this year, and as such we were quick to head back for more. After another uproariously hilarious performance we’ll definitely be keeping these folks on our radar and hitting more of their shows!
It was also the first time that we attended an event at Chapel Arts, and will also be subscribing to their mailing list. It’s a really great space here in the downtown east side and has recently been transformed into a venue/gallery for the arts. This weekend alone they had multiple plays, parties, and other things going on. Cool shmool.
Friday ended off at the Black Frog which is a regular hangout, but as it was halloween was a bit of an abnormal night. The highlight was definitely the drunk dude dressed up as iron man who figured out how to scale the building across from the pub to get up onto the rickety fire escape, which he quickly ran up and got onto the roof. It was all too fast for anyone to do anything but stand and watch, keeping one hand on the cell phone in case a quick call was required to either the authorities or an ambulance. He made it back down as quickly as he made it up, though, and celebrated with a backflip while back on solid ground. Huh.
Yesterday was a full work day for us with a visit to home depot and a number of projects started from painting to decoupage. We found ourselves hard at work until almost 4 am - which magically turned to 3 am thanks to daylight savings - before hitting the pillow to be ready for breakfast this am.
Reilly hit up the camera show first thing this morning and then we headed out to the Alibi room for brunch with Darren, Gillian, and Tamara. The Alibi is our newest favourite breakfast place - we had written it off some time ago as they stopped serving brunch at some point, but now that we know they are open for brunch again it’s the perfect spot. Close, delicious, and never a line. Excellent.
After that we hit Ikea and Home Depot for more things from the list and as of right now the place is still in a huge state of disarray with mass disorganization and painting all around. I like to post photos, but I flat out refuse to show anything until things are done! So, you’ll just have to wait. So many cool features, I can’t wait to start sharing the pics.
My evening from this point will consist of assembling Ikea storage solutions (aka boxes) and enjoying the pot roast that has been in the slow cooker smelling delicious and making us both hungry for hours.
Back at work tomorrow am with album deadlines looming and many books on the go, and the hopeful reassembly of our space. Pictures to follow once things are nearing completion!