So, I’ve been all about challenging myself lately. (Truly — as if I don’t have enough to do! I even find it hard to go on vacation – which I finally just scheduled. The first few days I just feel guilty about being away and not looking over my business, then I start to wind down and really get the hang of this Relaxing and Having Lots of Fun thing and then BAM! It’s time to come home.) OK, back to our regularly scheduled blog.
First challenge: I’ve come up with a Trading Spaces kind of situation with a past client of mine. She is a nutritionist/personal trainer and so, we are trading our respective expertises. I’m helping whip her home into a design haven and she’s helping whip me back into shape. I’m changing my eating habits and meeting her early in the morning to go for walks/runs, squats, lunges…you know, fun stuff. She lives on the valley of Sugar Loaf Mountain (the highest point in all of Florida) so you can imagine the hikes we can take. After I begin to balance the personal areas of my life by eating better, releasing stress (that’s kind of a nice way to explain working out) and oh, get more sleep, I will have even more energy to spare. Imagine what you can do when you’re at your best. :)
My brother and I are also planning on doing a future YouTube faux series (still editing the second one…) and doing some podcasting, maybe like a short online radio show on faux finishes/design. So many plans for the Fauxology blog. I’m also excited for you to get to know my brother – one of my favorite people in the world. (Well, except for when we’re fighting, LOL! At that point, he’s persona non grata.)
I think I will also pick some recipes out of some popular faux books and actually try them out in real-time for everyone. I’ll follow them step by step and not alter a thing. We’ll see if we’ve been bamboozled by pretty pictures or been given a true design gift by the publishing gods. I’ll work on this a bit. Let me know if you like the idea.
Our firm is also working on a Giant Concept with a company we do a lot of work with. It’s a philanthropic project — and one we’ve been mulling over for a few years. We’re still hashing out the idea and how we are going to execute it, but I will keep you posted. It should all come to a nice conclusion around Christmas time.
Allright, gotta stop doing the fun writing and go tackle the blueprints for two separate out-of-town projects. (True story: Years ago, a teacher of mine bid out and landed the commission for a famous Las Vegas hotel. One of his company’s estimators made a slight error reading the blueprints…a $275,000 oops. I’m not one of those people who constantly needs to learn from my own mistakes — just tell me what pitfalls you’ve seen/encounterd and I’m taking the other path, dude. After hearing that, I took a crash course on reading blueprints correctly, yes sir. Measure twice, cut once and all that.)
P.S. We’ve received some nice cc’s on our Win a Free Workshop! Contest. Please click on that past link for details. There is a frontrunner but it’s still anyone’s game. Time runs out at the end of April! Good Luck!
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I love the idea! By all means try the recipes and share the results w/us. Also, I would be thrilled if videos of your workshops were available for purchase.