Like all moves, this one was took time, haphazard planning, luck and hard labor.
We packed rolls of: sequins, fuzz, feathers, 7 sewing machines, the bandsaw, 4 worktables (taken apart & put together again on the same day ), tools, scissors, rotary blades, and, or course, googlie eyes. Foam boing-ed out of the boxes, pins were swept off the floor and the mascot “wall of fame” was disassembled.
It took: 2 movingtrucks, 6 strong men, the phone guy, the sewing machine guy, the GarbGang, husband & bro-in-law to move into our new studio. We went into a gorgeous, empty space, filled it up and transformed it into a mascot studio.
Tonie, our feng shui visionary, knows how to create order from chaos. I put objects—sewing machines and bunches of this and that wherever they fit. Tonie takes the whole space in and knows what goes where, how the make the space navigable and right.
Some of the GarbGang w/ Peter, I look at this remarkable business that I started a couple of decades ago, in my Berkeley, CA garage
, and I’m filled with a kind of awe and wonder. At the time I really didn’t know what I had started. Now it’s a great little biz in a wonderful spot in the world. …so, AvantGarb started in a California garage to a studio at the Stutz– We’re building mascots where Stutz Bearcat cars used to be manufactured! Where there was steel, we have foam, where there was chrome we use fluff! Bearcat Alley runs through the middle of the building. The building wan built on dreams and hard work.
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