waiting…

its about all there is to do.  Since we realized we’re out of money, things seems to have slowed to a crawl.  We’ve mostly halted the studio remodel except for the contractors we’ve already paid to get underway- not much we can do about those already written checks, and at …

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urban nomads

The week since the ADU Tour has been a blur.    We have been hopping from house to house in between AirBnB guests.  One night sleeping in the bus, a few nights sleeping on the floor of the demoed but not yet rebuilt studio, a few nights back at the …

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Portland ADU Tour

the word is apparently out…  We had blocked out a week without guests in the garage so that we could wrap up some last minute items before the Portland ADU tour came through on sunday.  It was actually a good chance to test out that whole balance issue we talked …

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Hitting the Reset Button

sometimes you just have to know when to say when. This last week was one of those times.  We’ve been burning the candle at both ends and holding a torch under the middle for a bit too long.  It’s slowly been becoming more clear, but moving into last weekend it …

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Cleaning Up

and it’s so rewarding…  Wow, the last few weeks have been such a whirlwind.  We’ve been pushed to our limits physically, mentally and emotionally.  We’ve each had our days where we’ve reached our wits end and broke down and we’ve each helped the other find solid ground again…and that may …

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Introducing MakerFlat

If we can ever get the doors put back in…It hit me like a ton of bricks earlier this week that i’m horrible at saying no.  It just doesn’t seem to be in my vocabulary.  Here we are, in the middle of what is turning into maybe the fastest remodel …

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Our Crazy Lives

It’s been one of those weeks…  One of those weeks where we spend at least a few minutes each day kind of checking in with ourselves and realizing how exactly un-normal we are.  It’s not all by choice.  We can still remember the days when we had “normal” jobs and …

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Time flies when…

pretty much always   Our attention has been focused primarily on landscaping the last few weeks.  Trying to find a dry window for our concrete guy (hopefully we still want to call him that after the forms come off) to build the frames for, and pour our concrete wall and …

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Getting there…

We’re continuing to make/finish our home base.   Funny how it’s the little things that make your house (okay, our garage) a home.  When we were in the thick of this project we were making absolutely everything by hand.  I had grandeur dreams of that being true down to the …

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Hours in the day

There just aren’t enough of them…   Seriously, sometimes I just can’t figure out where the day goes. Let’s take a quick look at my life shall we? I’m unemployed,  we purposefully have no major commitments, we don’t really watch tv to speak of, and to top it all off I …

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On the road again!

sometimes we just couldn’t make this shit up!  Spent our last few days in portland finishing furniture orders, watching the fab team get make jigs and get underway on the 85 stool order and securing a storage facility for delivery upon completion, tidying up our space at the shop, getting …

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Oregon Wine Country

We finished up our week away with a few days in oregon wine country.   It was a perfect getaway, and another chance for us to experience yet another small home. It’s funny how our time away from home also works out as “research” for zenbox.  While someone is staying …

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suddenly…it’s fall

What a fast and furious couple of weeks… After finishing the big push that got us through Serving up Style and Design Week Portland, we celebrated by heading to BC to see friends (while someone else moved into our place for a week).  We also happened to paint an entire …

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Marketing 101

The last week for us has been an interesting experience in local marketing.  The Serving up Style event was unlike anything we’ve done before.  We didn’t fit in exactly as most of the booths were interior decorators and we were promoting physical items such as furniture, the teardrop trailer and …

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Serving up Style

What a whirlwind.  We have been exceptionally busy.  All for good, but busy nonetheless.  The stress has remained in check and while im working hard im enjoying it again.  We’ve been moving in and out of our place as AirBnB guests arrive and we’ve been spending long days at the …

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Injured Reserve

Luckily, I un-stressed myself right before injuring myself…which during our tight timeline surely would have sent me back into the abyss. We were having a great couple of days.  A fantasy football draft party, a few visits with friends and a few bbqs and engaging dinner parties.  All after long …

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Stress, the ugly beast

Im slowly coming to grips with something I’ve really always known.  I apparently am a stress case.  I guess everyone else already knew this but i’m just realizing it now (again).  Don’t get me wrong, i knew i used to be one.  I had started young.  I had ulcers in …

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Return to VAN

Since Jen’s return its been pretty much life as normal.  Whatever “normal life” means to us now…  I took part in a few more neighborhood meetings and tours, trying to do what we can to make sure our neighborhood develops in a manner best for everyone.  A difficult task in …

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