Supplies for Creative Living

Wintering mode on. ❄️

The start of our year is for sifting and sorting, reflecting on the year past and refining what comes from lessons learned. What do we want more of, what do we less of what, what do want to bring into existence in the coming months, what do we still need to tidy and stack and burn.

This fallow period is a choice, bypassing all the different voices calling for more, for doing, for remaking and deciding to follow this one, this internal voice of mystery that says do this, I know this is right but I don’t know why. The same voice that will soon say that today is a day for writing, and maybe in a while, a moment for painting or for picking up a never-used pencil to scribble and draw.

Our shop hours shorten from now through April and our workshop schedule will be coming out in the next week or so. All in rhythm, can you feel it?

We are open Thursday to Monday from 11 to 5pm. We will be closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays through the winter months. To hear all about our upcoming workshop schedule and some exciting changes coming up for the shop, sign up for our newsletter. 😉

2024 is coming in HOT 🔥

Or is it just us? 🤔 We have projects on projects lined up for the coming year, some pretty big (but exciting!!) shifts coming up in the next few months and ideas for projects and shifts and art making coming out of our ears.

How do you take big ideas and timelines and corral them into an everyday tempo? How do you know what has the ability to float and move in the year and what needs to be anchored to a specific time and date?

This year, we’re organizing from big to small - from sketching and drawing out the big picture creative peaks and fallow periods for the year, to plotting out them out on our very wonderful and beautiful yearly wall planner by and eventually, funneling them into our newly opened 2024 Leuchtturm planner. (Aren’t fresh new books the best??)

Will this work? (Very definitely maybe 😜) Have any pro tips to pass along? Please share! Next year will be all hands on deck 🙌

Excerpts from a year of making (and unmaking) at 143 Main. 🥰

Thank you for playing around our workshop tables, for picking up holiday presents to insert a moment of joy and color into busy, bustling lives, for thoughtful giving to jumpstart/restart lapsed creative practices and most of all, for making us part of your creative stories as we weave in and out of this time and space together.

We wish you peace, health, rest and the joy of making for making’s sake. 🌟✨

We are open our regular hours all this week. We will be closed on Monday, 1/1/2024 for New Years Day.