It is done...

Well the gallery construction is complete. There are only a few details left to complete and we have opened the doors to the public for the first time.

The culmination of one years work...

Now for something completely different

I was blessed to be able to walk my daughter down the aisle at her wedding this past weekend. It was a wonderful event and even though she has been gone from home awhile now and even though we see her alot.... The father daughter dance definitely brought a few tears to my eyes as it really sinks in that she is gone and starting a family of her own.

She sure looked great. Someone was kind enough to take this shot of us as we gave her away.

The house has not been the same with her gone.

It's really starting to look like something!

Well here we are only 16 days away from what we hope is opening day for the Extraordinary Light Gallery and the Arabica Art Cafe. It has been a long haul with lots of back breaking work.

We have had the best contractor in the world (Tim Hovdestad of Westward Homes in Moosomin) working away with us allowing me to do as much of the work as I possibly could to save some money on the building. It has been interesting and fun and difficult. Definitely a life experience. I have to say that should this turn out so successful that I open another gallery somewhere else as well, I will not do any of the work next time. I'm tired, old and beat. It's time to slow down a bit.

Here are some pictures of the gallery as it was last weekend. There are some random bits of art hanging on the walls just to get it off the floors. There is still lots to do, but this is really starting to show off what things are going to look like.