its a sign!

 

 

 

I've been repurposing my old sign

with a lick of vibrant (traffic stopping) paint

hand cut stencil lettering

(nearly there....)

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spreading the news...

please feel free to shout it from the roof tops 

ps - the sams creek open day has been listed 

on the National Permaculture Day website

looksee

sams creek bookworks
is at Sams Creek - 10068 Princes Hwy (6kms north of) Cobargo NSW 2550

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look at me now!

sooooo did you catch that piccie of me (in the usual place)
peeking out of the vibrant orange studio doors?

things are moving along 

here's a peek (or two or three) of how the garden is shaping up...

come to the open day May 5 and do the full tour!

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painting...

Its Sunday morning 

and here's poor farmer phil up the ladder 

painting the hard to reach bits on the studio 

just WAIT until you see the final coat on the old building...... 

not long now until opening day!

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grand opening plans

Soooooo....

 here we are a year behind schedule

but this time EVERYTHING is going swimmingly for a HUGE opening day

Saturday May 5 2012

 

Over Christmas Phil created a beautiful wheelchair accessible path
and undertook some urgent repairs to my funny little shed/studio

in the next couple of weeks I'm going to be painting the exterior

(ooooo just WAIT until you see how this baby is going to be transformed!)

Then I've got a huge studio garden to replant 

(its a MESS right now)

then there's the rest of the garden to get to work on

(we're ordering a semi-trailer load of mulch this week.... 

have you seen how much mulch that is? WOLF!)

and then there's the interior to get ready 

(painting, cleaning, shelves and curtains to make...)

and my planned 'kiddies art in the courtyard' thingy to get going 

and the 'under the eaves' art exhibition to get started

and the fences to be fixed

and the signs to make

and 

and 

and

and I KNOW I'm going to get there 

and its going to be FANTASTIC!

(hope you can come to the big day.....)




*** proceeds from the opening will go to Cobargo School P&C 
for the school's kitchen/garden/outdoor classroom project

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national permaculture day...

 Its May 1 - National Permaculture Day -
today WAS going to be the grand opening of sams creek bookworks.....

but.....

ahh well - we'll aim for an october opening,
and this time next year we'll ensure that we have a big open day 

in the studio and garden here at sams creek....

right now the garden is looking a bit neglected - 

but even in neglect, it still has delightful bits
which can be enjoyed in the autumn sunlight....

Hopefully we'll soon have all the 'work' done here
to open the doors of sams creek bookworks -

there's still so much to do - EVERYWHERE

(sigh)

 hopefully you're enjoying a beautiful May Day wherever you are...

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grand plans.... moving to a new time slot

Due to forces outside our control - we have decided to postpone the opening of Sams Creek Bookworks for a few months..... (at this stage I am looking at dates in October - expect an announcement soon)

Major flooding on our region this week - the most serious since 1971 (the worst flood on record) - was the decider.... we were only marginally affected (not like other farms in the shire) but the big wet has thrown all our plans into chaos.... postponing the opening is the only sensible thing I can do at this point.

(Sams Creek - usually little more than a trickle - was a raging torrent earlier in the week
but the Brogo and Bega Rivers turned into positively nightmarish lakes in a matter of hours on early Tuesday morning)

In the mean time, I'll share some progress pics from the studio and garden
I hope to see some of you at the rescheduled opening (sorry about the change in plans)