January is a very strange time of the year sometimes, with cold and wet weather setting in, sometimes snow, sometimes rain, and days that feel gray or chilly in a way that December keeps away with it's holiday cheer. It's my birthday month, so I always feel like celebrating, but sometimes people seem to be staying home or maybe they've gone away, it's break time or just time to take it slowly and hibernate.
For me, the snow and cold of January reminds me that not only is my birthday and a time of celebration near, but after January we are really almost through winter. I've never been fond of the cold, although I do like snow when I'm able to be home and cozy, but somehow YES Gallery has been still feeling like springtime even though the plants are inside and the daylight is shorter and the door to the outside needs to stay closed.
Just after the New Year Casey Cotton Kirsch, whose gorgeous handmade ornaments are in the gallery now, stopped by to give me some Christmas lights she had just taken off of her tree. She had seen how I loved to decorate for Christmas, and had said she had some extra lights to share, and when she did I told her I would most likely be using them year round. Usually the lights I have are white lights, something that is left over from my own childhood and the way my Mother always decorated during the Christmas and winter season, but the lights Casey shared with me were multicolored and so I started to think about the best place where they could add their party glow.
After a short while I decided on trying them in the loft, and from the first moment it seemed like they were meant to be there. I had been wanting to figure out a way to add more light there, and there are some chandeliers I've found in different places that are not hooked up but are still pretty up there, so I draped the lights around the space and now it has a very fun and almost vacation den or private room feeling to it. People always loved that space before and it's so much fun to create different areas in the gallery that feel almost like their own spaces, so now in January we can feel like we're not only somewhere cozy, but also somewhere that could just be the nicest party spot of all.
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