Dear Friends and Supporters,

Things are really moving along! Drywall has been installed, and painting of the first floor is almost complete. Our contractor, Eddie, and his crew stayed after finishing the drywall to help us paint the large space downstairs, while Patti, Joe, and Hanna painted the downstairs bedrooms, bathroom, and hallway. Eddie's wife Ruth is painting the trim in the main room. We think the black and white is stunning in that space, but we also love our colorful bedrooms. What do you think?

Rob has been using his carpenter skills to install all the downstairs doors and trim, including this lovely door with a transom in the bathroom!

Patti and Toni began painting the outside of the building, and Joe finished it up. What a change! We still need to paint the trim white.

The electricians have also been hard at work, doing the finish electric on the first floor. Lights, smoke detectors, and Exit signs have been installed, and floor outlets, light switches, and plugs have been wired and are working.

Our electricians snapped this photo of Joe working outside in the yard Thursday :).

Flooring started to be installed this morning on the first floor.

The vision that Cass and Patti had is almost a reality, and we are super excited! The furniture is being moved from our storage space next Saturday, so work this upcoming week will be focused on finishing the upstairs.

If you're interested in booking a retreat, you can read about the space here: https://makercraftstudio.com/the-space/ and search availability on this page: https://makercraftstudio.com/booking/ We will be open beginning July 25th!

You can see our classes (and register for them) on this page: https://makercraftstudio.com/classes Classes will begin in August. If you have a class request, please send us a message. Note that the number of spaces in each class is limited, so if you are interested, we advise signing up early!

If you want to take more than one class on the weekend of Aug 23-25, consider spending the night! We are offering the chance to save yourself time driving back and forth from home; just spend the night. You can continue working on the class project after class ends (or another project of your choice) and you'll be ready for class the next day. Details on the Classes page of our website.

We know that some of our supporters are not local or may not be interested in taking classes, so we are going to create a new mailing list for class updates. We'll send you a list of upcoming classes once a month.

To sign up on that list, please use this form: https://makercraft-studio.ck.page/92f47afc9e Until we open, we will continue to send info about classes to this bigger list.

Thank you again for all your support!

~Patti, Cass, Rob, and Joe