Maria vacuumed, scoured, brushed and wiped her unusual heavy metal white desk we bought for $65 at a local re-purposing and re-imaging antique and restoration store called Shiny Sisters in our town of Cambridge.

We always seem to find what we want there, it is somewhat mystical. Leslie is a lot of run to work with. I think we love Leslie and her shop because its a place of re-imagination.

It seems we are re-imagining our home and our lives all the time, I think that is what creativity is about. It’s good we are together, we would drive anyone else crazy. There is no stasis in our work or lives.

All we know about this heavy and dirty old desk was that Leslie got it off of a farm. The minute I saw it, I thought it was Maria’s desk. It looks like it grew in that corner. It’s hard to believe how hard and quickly Maria works when she sets her mind on something.

Leslie is honest and helpful. She said that once she restored it the price would shoot up. Several people offered to buy it while it was out on the back porch warming up. I think its right where it belongs. It belongs in an old farmhouse, the desk of an artist.