One day later!

What a difference a day makes! I can't believe we're finally opening. I'm so used to working on the space instead of working from the space. I hope everyone comes to see it and say, Hi! This has been a ton of work but we're very proud of how it's shaping up. It's actually starting to look like a real studio! I knew we could get here eventually but it's still a little weird it's actually happening. Wish us luck on our newest venture.

Gipson

Last minute touch ups

As we get closer to opening our doors I realized that our sample boards needed a facelift. I thought this would be easy enough but sadly underestimated the amount of sample boards we had. It also seemed like there wasn't a one that didn't need at least a tiny touch up somewhere on it. Having walls to hang these samples on will be great because they won't get beat up as much any more. It seems like no matter how careful you are with them they still find a way to get scratched. The worst is when you are in a meeting and you pull one out and are surprised that there's a mark on it from the car ride over and you didn't know about it. All part of the learning curve. Now I give a quick inspection as I pull them out of the car just in case. We're hoping to create an art gallery type of vibe by displaying them on a slat wall in various categories. Hopefully we have enough room to show most of them.

Getting Closer!

Here are a couple of pics of our new space. They are definitely work in progress pics to say the least. I'll post more in a few weeks when everything is done and decorated. The first image to the left is a close up of the foyer walls. The others are of the main showroom itself. The back office is still too ugly to even bother seeing at this point.

Monday Monday

Starting the week off is always a little slow going. I can honestly say that I love my job and actually look forward to it and Mondays still suck! I don't know how the people do it when they hate their jobs. Must be why people vacation a lot.

Anyway, we're in the home stretch of trying to get the showroom up and running by this weekend and I for one will be glad when we get there. I am getting really sick of spending all of my free time over there. We will be doing a more formal opening in a few weeks when we've had a chance to catch our breath and will let everyone know all about it when we get it all planned.

Lot's of stuff to do today and I'm already late so off I go. I'll try to get a work in progress pic posted of the space soon.

Gipson

Fisrt official blog post!

Hey Everyone!

This is my first official post to the brand new g3 Studios Blog. For anyone who hasn't heard of us at this point, let me introduce us and tell you a little bit about what we do at g3 Studios.

My name is Gipson Shoemaker III (thus the name g3) and I own and operate a faux finishing and decorative painting business along with my wife Deb. We work out of the twin cities metro area in Minnesota.

I know g3 Studios is a vague name and doesn't directly tell you what we do at first glance, but we thought that was a good thing for a reason. That reason is because we, like the design world, are a changing and ever evolving business. We didn't want to pigeonhole ourselves by descriptively naming ourselves. This allows us to keep adding new services and ideas to the mix without having to make new business cards all the time.

Anyway, we offer a lot of services and artistic ideas which we go into at great length on the website, so we won't bore you with all of that here at the risk of becoming redundant.

Deb and I haven't really figured out yet who's going to be doing the posting here. I'd like to say it'll be a shared responsibility but knowing me it'll probably become more of Deb's baby than mine eventually. We'll put our name at the bottom of the posts so people know who's talking.

I hope you find this blog to be fun and entertaining and make sure you let us know if you feel we're overlooking anything you might be interested in.

Gipson