Since November, I've been at Seattle Lighting three days a week, learning absolutely everything there is to know about lighting and then some. And why you may ask? Because lighting goes hand in hand with color and I want to have more to offer my clients. Now I'm an official lighting geek and terms like wattage, lumens and voltage drop are flowing off my tongue at 186,000 miles per second. I now know the difference between a G9 and and GU 24 bulb, when to use a 12volt transformer versus 24 and every fixture one would need for a myriad of lighting applications from kitchen to landscape. I have been fortunate to learn from a fantastic team who have taught me everything in the most supportive environment. And of course, the experience gets sprinkled from time to time with nuggets like the Edison Bulb.
All the while, EB Color is going through the roof! The phone has been ringing incessantly and I answer the call. So I'm at it six days a week, but I wouldn't say it's work. Nope. I absolutely love my job as a color consultant and emerge from each color consultation with a wonderful sense of fulfillment for having helped people through the use of my talent and experience.I find myself in amazing places and my customers are lovely. Besides residential work, I have also been branching out doing larger scale commercial work, developing palettes for apartment complexes from Tukwila to Tacoma.
Courtyard at South Station "before"
But alas...my website needs updating, my easel beckons and so does my Etsy shop. I am once again summoned to a blogging regiment of writing mine and reading my favorite colleagues' on the magical subject of color. This morning over coffee with the talented landscape designer Emily Russell, who who is time challenged in her own right with an 18 month old, we decided to banish excuses once and for all. Thank you Emily!
Summer painting season is approaching, and EB Color is ready. If you would like an exterior or interior color consultation, I have the time for you. And just like Tom Bodette... "I'll leave the light on for you".
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9 comments:
Great blog sissy! :)~ Glad you like to work now because you're getting a lot of experience! xoxo
you go,girl!!!!
Loved this post!
How I wish we could have had you as our lighting consultant when building 24C! We went through FOUR lighting 'experts' and I still had to figure it all out myself in the long run...it was quite a joke. I just know if you'd been there with us, we would have breathed a sigh of bright relief after the first meeting (just like the color consultations)!
It's so great that you have *three* jobs that you love...what a blessing!
Thank you for such a wonderfully sweet comment by the way...I was truly touched. Hoping to get back into the 'atmospheric' house part of the blog soon...it's been tricky with everything going on, sometimes the fluff take a back seat, but I'm definitely feeling the fluff calling my name again...I've missed it, and you!
xoxo J~
EB - good to see you posting again. We've missed you. Good for you, getting your lighting education on! And, I'm happy to hear you've been supre busy. Awesome news.
Looking forward to your future posts...
Thanks all for checking in...means alot!!!! xo
Golly, I've been keeping my eye on your blog for a while but I didn't realise you had an etsy shop. I've just had a look through and I LOVE 'Beetle No2' & 'Rail' best but wow, what a super collection, fantastic!
Your lighting experience will be invaluable, another string to your bow! Its very empowering learning something new isnt it?
Good luck and have a great summer, Niki
I echo 24 Corners...I could so have used you when I tried to plan the lighting for our house. It is delightful to hear that your endeavors are going so well. Congratulations!
Dana,
I clicked onto your blog, not knowing it was you! I was so taken by the beautiful styling in your photographs, your textile projects and the breathtaking views of your amazing property. I kept scrolling through each post until the one about Sunny. RIP, sweet Sunny. I still can't forget the day he ran through our legs as we walked the labyrinth in your back yard.
I am so glad to see you've finally moved into your new house and you're setting up a studio in the old one. I am so jealous! I will get up there before too long to take a peak and we can do the museum one more time.
So glad to see all this beauty and creativity. You have inspired me!
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