Open Studio

Sometimes when you get really busy you become aware of habitual flaws in your thinking. You can't get as much done as you hoped, or it's harder than you thought, because, you discover, you're not seeing your workload accurately to begin with.

Managing the many unexpected challenges of my studio remodel - while editing one of the biggest American Craft issues of the year and striving to keep the rest of an already overloaded life on track - has had that effect.

This is the first day of the rest of my life. And, as it turns out, part of my new life will take place in a much nicer studio space than I have now.

How come I'm getting a new studio? A few months ago, on a lark, I entered one of those cable-TV home makeover show contests, and - to my surprise - I won. (I won't disclose the name of the show or the network until the producers give me the OK.)