House in Progress Diary

Jeannie,

That is too good. I just thought about checking the blog as I came into the computer room to get my bedtime book. I was thinking about how to play with the dove on the guitar idea. I thought maybe the original sort of chunky dove in white with a same baby blue gradient except with a hard hat on. I was thinking of ways to marry the hard hat with the original dove head (the hat would have to be askew), but you went the other way and brought in the hammer. How apropos! Good job.

Hoping you sleep well and long,
S. Dennis

PS; Darden Hunter is still in the works

Scott--

That would have been cool too! I had this old keyring somewhere with the Woodstock logo in profile...I vaguely remember the one that was inked. So I landed the dove on a hammer and then turned the hand around so it would be facing the appropriate way. Ready to nail down roofing tile or some such.

I imagine there is SOMEWHERE we can all drive to with family members and pets packed into the family truck, van or station wagon. We have so many musicians in our community that we wouldn't be hurtin' for music. Lots of craftspeople too (like yourself) to display your wares.

Ah...what a fine thing...

jm

I actually really dig this idea. There are so many ways to go~ could be like a burning man for homeowners, or a tradeshow in a national park. Or we could just have it at someone's project (ahem, I mean HOUSE).
At my house we can sleep 4 couples (including Steph and I) and a single without putting anybody on the floor, and the yard can accomodate 4 or so tents. For once I'd know that my guests really wouldn't be put out by a little dust or that faucet whose hot handle only gives you more cold water. No one would look at me askance when I say that they're welcome to use the downstairs toilet, but to be careful since I can't bolt it down until I redo the tile.
Oh, and I've got 4 guitars, a bass, an organ, several woodwindy things, and more percussion than you can shake a maracca at :^)

Also~ your logo is the best branding work I've seen in a good long while! Instantly recognizable and accurately communicative.

This summer? Everybody pack up your sawsalls!

OH, as to location~ my little town of 8,000 souls is a true small town (I know the mayor and the mailmen and garbage guys) bordering on a major city (Wash DC), and we have TONS of houses worthy of the Woodstick love. They're in different stages at the moment from "still totally remuddled" to "You are my hero", and we have a wide variety of styles from foursquares and victorians to oodles of bungalows. The town has even set up a community tool shed, so that residents can borrow things like rototillers, chainsaws, paint sprayers and compressors, etc.

I'm unreasonably psyched by this idea~ I've been reading about so many of you so long and it would just be great to meet David and Heather and Ryan and Scott and everyone else I see through my magic looking glass!

On a smaller scale, I've been considering the "swing-by". I know it's wierd but i feel like i know everyone now and have seriously considered just calling folks up when i'm in their areas to see if can swing by and see how things are going. lol...this internet thinger...i tell you what

Our friend Brian would definitely qualify for Woodstick -- but would we? He has done a lot of work on our old house, simply out of love, or wuv, as we say. Does trying to fix what the original contractor screwed up count? Does covering holes with wacky artwork qualify under the "spacklers" clause? Can we dress up in linens, bring a guitar and call ourselves the "Sheetrockers?" Because we'd hate to crash this house party after all the work you put into it... Wuv, io

meredith--

when we've been in town (and I haven't been sick...ick), we've had a couple of folks "swing by" :) We love it!

That's if we get their note before they've already been through...sometimes we get to notes from the website right away and sometimes they pile up for a little while when we are frantically trying to get something done. During some time last year, our server "burped" or something and it seems we lost some notes from folks. (We found out later when a few of them wrote a second time. This is my way of slipping in another apology to Tudorhead and beg her forgiveness for being a dork.)

It IS hard to not feel you know people when you learn so much about their lives through their sites! (Like this is, um, Romper Room. And we're looking through our little magic whatever-that-was. I see Meredith and Heather and Tully Monster and Scott and...)

Sorry. No sleep.

jm

Ilsabe!

I've been to your house! Not only do you guys qualify, you also are your very own category..."Artists in Bungalows." I've been in the basement lav, remember!

I think that Woodstick "wuvs" Sheetrockers. We may all have to have Mitch design a special tatoos as well. I think "Lil' DIY-er" might be cool :)

Yes, I don't see us as a snobby bunch.

I've been to the real house of one DIY blogger so far - one that I regularly read about. It was really fun to see it in person, knock a knuckle on beam, that sort of thing, but more importantly to sit down and talk with them about what they want to do, what kind of life they want to have in their house and what their life is like now, and to share that sort of detail from our life.

Ever get the feeling we're like kids playing at being grown up?

SD

Who's a grown-up?? Grown-up? What is grown-up?

"Lil' DIY-er" is officially on the list to extend the Lil' Kid Tattoo series!