Finally - some shop pictures

Well, sure, we finished the shop last August - it has only taken me a year to have it cleaned up enough to be willing to post pictures :) This is the wonderful 500 square foot shop my dad and David built last summer, from the ground up. We had the foundation done for us by the wonderful guys at KW Walker Concrete, but from that point on, it was all dad and David. They did a gorgeous job, don't you think?


Where I spend a good portion of my work time - the command center - complete with butterfly mug from Rising Sun Earthworks :-)

Looking at the front door - hey, there is sunshine out there!!! Such a nice change from the last 5 years of working in the basement - don't mind my pasty white skin or adverse reaction to sunlight...


View from the front door - heat transfer press, rack of stuff to do, rack of Melissa and DougWhat we affectionately call "the warehouse" - inventory, supplies, shirts, inventory, orders to go out, packaging stuff, lots and lots of inventory...
The girls - our Melco Amaya embroidery machines, Mary and Maya - poor Mary is all torn aprt waiting for a replacement part to come in, so we are running on just one machine right now
Water cooler that we found on Craigslist - it does cold and hot, so I can make my Harvest Moon Chai tea out here in the winter - yay! Also a rack of Aura Cacia oils and scales for shipping.

Just for fun - a before and after - after the boys demolished the old shed and coop
The shop now - ignore the chairs, they are getting ready to be painted and had to move for us to lay the flagstone patio

Happy New Year!

I have so much to catch up on! We have been busy bees working away on the Green Grass House - we did end up taking quite a bit of time away from remodeling work to do "real" work, the Holiday season was not as busy as it has been in the past (darn economy...but that is a whole other post...) but busy enough to keep us hopping a little some weeks and put most everything around the house on hold until the new year.


So first things first - the SHOP IS DONE! Well, has been for quite a while, but since this will be lots of back info, that is the first and foremost. Above pics are the finishing, windows, outside paint, etc, done back in August or so.

Moving in racks, inventory, and most importantly, the embroidery machines... I need to snap pics of the "after" still - might clean it up a bit before I do, though, the shop is a bit of a disaster!

More shop

That was several weeks ago, in the meantime, David and Dad have been busy beavers getting walls and roof up - I can't believe how fast they can work together!

They used one of the flatbed trailers from the rental shop to pick up the wood and drywall - yikes, that is a lot of building materials!

Why, yes, that is my dad perching on the top of the trusses there! At least we managed to retire the 4 foot wooden stepladder that was so precarious it was freaking even the grandkids out to see dad and poppa on there!

Who can forget the shop?

Our reason for moving, the single biggest project that needs to be done before the move and actually the thing that is fitting together the smoothest (YAY!) I don't remember the exact date,
but we had the cement foundation poured for us. David and my dad did all the prep work, dug the trench (I think they called it a monolithic slab?? big deep trench around all four sides, less in the middle...) and then had a fantastic customer of theirs from the rental store do the foundation. KW Walker is a gem of a guy, and has some of the most fantastic crew working with him, they were awesome! If I can hunt down a website for him, I'll post it here, but otherwise, if you need concrete work in Denver, feel free to email us for his info!


And it wouldn't be a work event at the Zserdins without food - my mom brought donuts and juice for everyone to munch on, on our fancy sawhorse and scrap door table :-)