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How is it January 2023? How is it almost the end of January 2023? This project of ours that is entering the ninth year now is just bigger than even I can fathom and the hours go by quicker here than I've ever experienced before.
We're left at the end of each day, most days, with the feeling tha…
It's hard for me to pick out what I love most about this old church. The village is full of interesting & incredible people, the location is stunning, and the interior is enchanting, but there's something about the outdoors that surrounds us that continually amazes me.
No matter what the season is,…
The sun isn't up yet, autumn is definitely here and our mind is turning to all the things we need to make sure we've done for winter.
With the cost of oil so high, we want to make sure we have enough wood cut, split, stacked, covered and ready to go in the biomass stove that has really saved us at …
Yesterday was one of the most productive days in our lives at The1870.
Morton was sawing trees that had fallen sideways in a storm around the parking lot, Emma & Justin, our helpers staying with us, were splitting firewood outside for the coming cold months and I was in the studio packaging ord…
Changes are happening in our lives so fast at the moment it feels like time has sped up a bit.
Morton has retired at 55, we are getting projects done at an incredible rate of speed thanks to him being here and having two incredible helpers with us for the month of August from Workaway.
Behin…
If we had a church bell, I would surely be ringing it to spread the news far and wide. After working non-stop, harder than anyone I’ve ever met and more than full time since he was 17, Morton is retiring early on July 25, 2022 at the age of 55.
My heart is so happy for him, he is a bit worried be…
Since the beginning of our journey here at the lovely old church we call home, we have known that getting the big roof done was going to be the most expensive project we’d be doing and one we couldn’t do ourselves. Any other things we did were done one the strictest economy, usually by ourselves and…
Ever since we bought this old church, we’ve known it’s had a secret or two we needed to explore. The bell tower is a mystery on it’s own, but at the very base of the bell tower, just behind the newer drywall wall in the studio kitchen, there’s an actual secret room we haven’t been able to enter yet.…
Yesterday we had planned what we were going to do on Morton’s day off, but our lovely old church had a different idea for us. We were going to head to a garden center, buy a yellow rose for my mom’s memory garden and a red rose for my mother-in-law’s memory garden, stake down the dropper hose on the…
Today is a good day for a great day. I'm going to be making a crockpot of homemade soup, putting beeswax & orange oil on my parents rocking chairs I had gotten them for their 50th wedding anniversary back in 2000, then heading down the stairs in my office to go to the studio!
We're going to have …
Look at me, posting again. Once neglected, now embracing a wee bit of time to tell you about what's been happening here.
Yesterday in the studio we had a lovely reporter and cameraman come in to do a story on our glass pulling. It was really fun and I'll share the link as soon as the segment airs…
Today I sit here with the light streaming through the windows, promising that spring, as the calendar says, is indeed here. My laptop is on my lap, I'm taking a break from working on the new website, The1870Studio.com to just check some links on this one, and I felt compelled to write another entry …
Hello you wonderful person!
Priscilla here, and though I love to write, absolutely adore writing, I also get distracted by this big old baby of ours, The1870.
Today I’m going to not make a promise of writing more. It’s a tough thing, but I feel like I don’t want to neglect this diary, just nee…
Obviously we’ve been busy! Time flies whether you’re restoring an old church or not, so you might as well enjoy each and every moment.
Since we utilize Facebook, I’m basically blogged out when it comes to posting on this diary, but I really do want to get better at it.
This year has been a w…
Since we post so much on our Facebook pages for The1870 and The1870 Studio, I really neglect this blog. It is my goal to do better this year.
Big news around here is that we have a wonderful Sedore biomass stove that has helped with high heating oil costs and hope to add another stove this year t…
It's official! We've had to dust off the fans, try to keep out the humidity and are experiencing a heat wave in the church.
The temperature is at 76 inside, 90 plus outside, thanks to a very high ceiling that is insulated. It would be amazing to have a huge fan in the bell tower to suck out the …
Hey everyone!
Sorry for the lack of posts on this thing! I honestly forget about it because I put so many pictures, stories and words on our two Facebook pages!
I'll try to post on here more!
Priscilla
What a wonderful start to 2018!
First, with a lot of help from my friends Mary & Mary, a lovely newspaper reporter named Sarah, my darling husband, Morton & the amazing people at Marabu paints, I set a world record marbling 684 greeting cards in just one hour on January 1, 2018! It was fun & exha…
Frosty morning here today. So much has been happening that time has yet again slipped by so fast.
The last few weeks have been very productive. We have no more holes in the big ceilings where lights should be, thanks to Morton, scaffolding and several great finds of antique lights.
We acci…
Hi everyone,
Just recently returned from an amazing two week trip to Arizona to spend some time with my grandchildren. The weather was lovely, the light was incredible for painting outside, and you know how they say you need to step back from things sometimes to really see them? That's just what …