by Wendy Scheel | Aug 10, 2015 | New Products, Quick Thoughts
Let’s talk about pet peeves. You know that little thing that bugs you but there are so many other real issues in the world that it doesn’t reeeeally matter in the big picture of life?
But, it bothers, YOU.
I’ll go first in the sharing arena.
Water ring stains on my wood furniture. The residue that soaks into the wood because a coaster wasn’t’ used. GASP! Drives me crazy.
I have ceramic tile coasters, I have beautiful agate coasters and this past weekend I made fabric coasters.
Take that water ring non-coaster using people! 🙂
Okay. Your turn. Pet peeves?
by Wendy Scheel | Aug 7, 2015 | DIY, Life, New Products
Did I mention that we have a 21 closer to 22 year-old daughter? I know, shocking. I sound so young on this blog. 🙂
Well that 21 year-old, Samantha is in the process of applying to graduate schools to work towards her masters in Occupational Therapy. Side note: it just took me four attempts to spell “therapy” correctly. She gets her brains from her father. 🙂
So anyway, the past few weeks, Sam and I have been visiting the campuses of her top three choices of graduates schools.
After every tour, we have fallen into the pattern of grabbing lunch and then some shopping. On a recent shopping adventure, we wandered into a children’s toy store and **BAM** inspiration struck! I saw this table top checker board made from fabric.
And I thought, I can make that! So I did!
I cut the checkers out from the branches and hand painted them myself! Humble brag: Sometimes I am so amazing. 🙂
I love how this checker board turned out. Very rustic feeling and old school. No plug in or docking station required.
What was the last thing that inspired you?
by Wendy Scheel | Jul 30, 2015 | DIY
Incase you have forgotten, I love estate sales. And for some reason I am always drawn to the chairs.
When I first started going to estate sales I would buy all wood chairs, no fabric on them. I would clean them up and usually paint them. But I wanted to branch out. I wanted to try re-upholstering a chair. This is the chair I branched out with. Go Big or Go Home Wendy!
How hard could it be to take off each piece lay it out on some new fabric and tack it back on? Seriously, how hard? So I started and I removed all of the fabric and then painted the wood.
So far so good and only a couple of hours of work. Then I put the old fabric on top of the new fabric and started cutting. BUT, I didn’t mark anything down as to where the new pieces were suppose to go! I had so many different size pieces and no idea how to put it back together. Ugh.
Instead of trashing the whole thing and losing the $40 I had into it, I cut off the arms of the chair so I didn’t have to re-upholster them! Bra-ill-ient!
Now it was just a matter of sewing a couple of square corners and, done.
(I will share more about this chair on another day. It is now part of my daughters first apartment. )
Since biting off more than I could chew in the re-upholstering department, I have reverted to buying chairs that aren’t so difficult to re-upholster.
Exhibit A: This chair that I painted and re-upholstered the seat.
Exhibit B: This rocking chair. It needed a little TLC and an update of fabric. And here is how I did it. The right way.
After removing the fabric, I washed the wood with water, dried it and polished it up with Hemp Oil from the Miss Mustard Seed line of products. Instant beauty.
I knew I wanted to go with the French Farmhouse fabrics to replace the not-so-desirable fabric that was on the chair. Here is the line of pillows made from French Farmhouse style fabrics in my shop that I chose from.
The winner for me was the beige/khaki line fabric.
So, I removed the old fabric pieces and laid them out on top of the new fabric to cut them out. With only two pieces I figured I would know where to replace them.
Self explanatory right? The same process was used when the head rest part of the chair needed a little padding. To hold the padding and fabric in place I used some basting adhesive.
Incase you were wondering, this was the brand of basting adhesive I used to hold everything in place. Incase you were wondering. 🙂
And now for the big reveal…..always my favorite part.
And one more beautiful collage.
I haven’t attempted another large re-upholstering project. Going Big or Going Home! wasn’t the best choice. 🙂 Have any of you miscalculated your skill set when trying a project?
And as a side note, Spencer my product photographer didn’t take some of these pictures. I think it’s pretty evident, but in full disclosure, wanted to point it out. 🙂
by Wendy Scheel | Jul 27, 2015 | DIY, Quick Thoughts
So many times people say to me, “Oh, I wish I could sew.” or “Putting in a zipper is so hard, I could never do that.” or even “I have so many ideas for pillow covers, but I don’t know how to make them.”
Well there are hundreds of YouTube videos about learning to sew or putting in a zipper. But if you want to take it one step further and save yourself some time and create all of those amazing pillows for friends, relatives, co-workers or a hard to buy for person, you’ve come to the right place.
As we all know, the acronym DIY stands for Do It Yourself. However, that doesn’t mean that you have to do it all by yourself from beginning to end. So, I am here to help.
I have available in my shop pre-made pillow covers that you can then DIY. They can be used to stencil, screen print, embroider, hand paint or appliqué.
But the best part, they are available at wholesale pricing. The more you purchase, the less expensive they become.
Unleash those creative juices and don’t let a little zipper or sewing machine hold you back!
Cotton Canvas covers:
Set of 4 covers, Set of 10 covers, Set of 25 covers, Set of 50 covers, Set of 100 covers
Burlap covers:
Set of 4 covers, Set of 10 covers, Set of 25 covers, Set of 50 covers, Set of 100 covers
And if you find a spare moment, I would love to see what you’ve created. 🙂
by Wendy Scheel | Jul 27, 2015 | DIY, Quick Thoughts
So many times people say to me, “Oh, I wish I could sew.” or “Putting in a zipper is so hard, I could never do that.” or even “I have so many ideas for pillow covers, but I don’t know how to make them.”
Well there are hundreds of YouTube videos about learning to sew or putting in a zipper. But if you want to take it one step further and save yourself some time and create all of those amazing pillows for friends, relatives, co-workers or a hard to buy for person, you’ve come to the right place.
As we all know, the acronym DIY stands for Do It Yourself. However, that doesn’t mean that you have to do it all by yourself from beginning to end. So, I am here to help.
I have available in my shop pre-made pillow covers that you can then DIY. They can be used to stencil, screen print, embroider, hand paint or appliqué.
But the best part, they are available at wholesale pricing. The more you purchase, the less expensive they become.
Unleash those creative juices and don’t let a little zipper or sewing machine hold you back!
Cotton Canvas covers:
Set of 4 covers, Set of 10 covers, Set of 25 covers, Set of 50 covers, Set of 100 covers
Burlap covers:
Set of 4 covers, Set of 10 covers, Set of 25 covers, Set of 50 covers, Set of 100 covers
And if you find a spare moment, I would love to see what you’ve created. 🙂
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