Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Studio - I'm leaving !!!

Yes you read right, I am leaving my lovely studio at the end of December. I handed in my notice today..........

And immediately agreed to take on a larger studio at the same place. Yay!!!!

OMG panic has now set in, I had contemplated it a little while ago, when I knew the bigger studio would be coming available, but thought it was to soon to move and so had decided to forget it. But life is never good at following plans and circumstances pushed the idea at me again. So after much deliberation and money working out then I decided, to just go for it.

Don't get me wrong I love my little studio and my new one is not as pretty and is not in such a good place at the centre, but the advantages I think outweigh the disadvantages,

The new studio is huge, it gives me space to run my workshops inhouse, rather than having to rent the teaching room, which was less than ideal. It has an inside toilet and also a storage and kitchen area. It also means I can run workshops as and when I want and get some regular groups going. I also have loads of ideas, including renting wall space and running mini exhibitions, but I need to look realistically how they would work.

Of course I am worried about the extra money, my costs would effectively double. but Mr WD put it all in to perspective for me, and we agreed it would be stupid not to give it a go. I could potentially earn a good income from it, if it works. But the loss if I failed could be managed, as long as we keep to an agreed time scale to assess if it is worth continuing.

I am very, very excited at the prospect of what I can achieve in my new studio but also a little sad, my little studio has been a joy and I will be sorry to leave it.

21 comments:

  1. Congrats hon you have worked very hard, best wishes and super good luck in the new studio

    Max x

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  2. Congratulations. I bet you`ll do really well.
    You are very talented and deserve to have it all.
    Are you still keeping your folksy shop?

    Linda

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  3. Linda I will keep my folksy shop open as I love it. I would hate to give it up

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  4. Best wishes from the Raven household :-) I truly hope you do well x x x

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  5. Congrats on the move to a bigger studio, I'm sure it'll all work out for you, you so deserve to succeed with all the hard work you've been putting into it and you're so talented.

    It's so exciting to see how you're progressing to bigger things! Good luck!

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  6. Woo hooo. Congratulations. Scary but exciting!

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  7. Ooh exciting! Having control over when and how you run workshops sounds like a huge plus to me, as does being able to have regular groups. Wishing you great success!

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  8. congrat to you, hope you go on to bigger and better things

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  9. How exciting! I feel as if we are all journeying with you :o)

    Dottie x

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  10. That's so exciting, Janice! Wishing you all the luck in the world. :) xx

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  11. This is fantastic news. I am excited for you. Make sure you keep us all well informed and take lots of pics when you move in.
    Wishing you lots of luck xx

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  12. Congratulations, sounds like a really good move, you have to speculate to accumulate , as they say.
    All the best
    Deborah x

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  13. PHEW!! and YAY!!!! Wish you all the best!

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  14. Exciting news indeed. I'm sure everything will work out well for you. Virtual waves from the other side of the channel!

    Cat x

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  15. Aww that is brilliant news Janice :) When I read that first bit I was like 'Noooo' - you absolutely had me for a second. You truly are an inspiration, go for it! :)

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  16. Congrats. Love the small studio - now if I was closer!!!

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  17. Thankyou all so much its great to have so much support x

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  18. Brilliant - definitely the right thing to give it a try - Good Luck!
    Sue

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  19. That's wonderful, very best of luck to you! :-)
    Zoe x

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  20. Wow! That's great news - very best of luck with it, I'm sure it'll be a success! x

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