Panic, Paliative or productivity?

After the wonderful first weekend of Open Studios... Where I was able to clarify what I am trying to achieve ...to myself, at least,If not to all the wonderful visitors who not only braved the entry to Area 61 but used coded phrases like  'what on earth is steampunk' in order to set my cogs whirring and produce many Timeslip moments and sent me into the mode of panic which only creativity can calm... that and a large heap of raw material. 

It nearly always gets messy before anything productive happens ...but things are starting to take shape... 

Like this the Fourth Brigade Temporal Timeslip Corps, Empire Cross, for future bravery and longstanding retrospective service and causal effectiveness... probably....

More medals and general neckwear did come out of this productive period, but, due to digital camera download problems, caused mostly by one of my digits pressing a button marked delete, the pictorial evidence of their existence is, for the moment, unavailable.

sorry I think that picture was twisted in a temporal rift, probably started by all the waving around of weapons of undetermined action that has been going on around Area 61 during my demonstrations of the fully automatic nature of these weapons.
 Time to get ready for another session of Open Studios:

 Another great weekend, with around 125 visitors and another two sales of Finger Functionality Rings involving the clandestine machinations of Beth, Ben and the unknown flatmate... smoke, mirrors and coded messages passed by aether mail.... Happiness ensued and no one noticed ... much.
 Brokencross Finger Functionality devices have started to travel out into the Empire on their own, without the Professor or myself to guide them ... I know only good can come of this, but it still makes me wonder what they will get up to with  their new owners...
 Thankyou to everyone who came to Area 61 for York Open Studios 2013, your identities will remain secret...You made it so interesting for us... I hope all the stories I told, about Dickens' desk,the use of chainsaws in the crafting of library cupboards and the production of many 'original ' Victorian features were not too dull.
 I particularly enjoyed the large number of people who seemed to enjoy the Holistic approach Area 61 aspires to and the Artefactory is soon to start delivering.
 It promises to be a busy year for us all... I have just built the new tables for Artefacts new teaching studio... installed just in time for Alices' birthday meal and Studio warming event on Thursday.
 Future events and open days that are not top secret... will become obvious when the Artefact button at the top of the page is used.Hope to see you then.

Open studios...

OK, the Professor said it was OK if we moved the sofa so I could pretend this was my studio ... I don't have a studio I have the Forgery and that is a workshop, Stuffed to the threshold with perils that only many years of training allow me to navigate (stumble through) with any degree of safety at all...
...Get the desk from the potting shed and make a new drawer and runner...polish it up and try to get the colour right on the new bits (not quite right ... maybe draw the curtains a bit)
Set up lots of stuff to make the GeoMagnetic Neuteraliser feel at home, That's important when you realise it is fully automatic and unpredictably prone to perform its function at whim

And I can't leave the Recombobulator there, no telling what they will get up to together.

Line up all the Finger Functionalisers on top of the frequency modular phonic communication  unit.

Will showing off...Temporal flux filters with loupes, topper with Timewar medal and his propensity to wear protective headgear at an unacceptably jaunty angle...   Cool though.

Airship captain Werthers Timewar medal and Crossphire medalion on the ledger with some contact cards.

Junior Timeslipman Oakes' cap with blindflight goggles,

and Temporal Bloodcross medalion

Professor Oakes' topper mounted spectoral field loupes look nice on their case at the foot of the Dickens desk with the bust of Queen Victoria.

That's looking good ... ready now ...
pop out to the car boot to gather before opening at ten on Saturday for my first open studio...Thanks to everyone who turned up and showed so much interest. Sorry there were no postcards available and people had to take their own photos ... I will get some made... or the Professor will be vexed with me again.
We were busier than I expected at Area 61 on both Saturday and Sunday... Two great days ... new friends ... old friends ... and hope for next weekend when Area 61 opens its doors again ...SEE YOU then!

Tempus Fugit


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Just popped out to get some more metal polish

Lost in timesliop in Area 61 running around polishing any brass or copper I can find ,,, got to get back to presentday Open Studio imminent ... insulate, plasterboard, plaster, new doorway, relevel the floor and the garage in Area 61 is becoming Artefacts new studio the Artefactoy.

Time to get back into the Forgery and get ready...

That didn't really work ... got distracted and into a new project...

more work needed on this one ... but Time is speeding towards Open Studios I need to start Setting up displays and setting the scene ... Where did the Proff, go? and that menacing Assistant.
            See you in Area 61 for Open Studios April 13th 14th April 20th and 21st