Another Upholstery Project..for Who??

I am so into my upholstery class these days, Its so nice to see the transformation of the old chair to new look. My next projext is my DH's old arm chair. I don't know why he likes his old so called " Thinking chair" yes, it look like the one from the blue's clues.

This is the upside down picture of the chair.

Front look like this..

This pic is after the arm's been taken off from the chair

Process of redoing the Arms.

to be continued...

Julie xx

Corners of my house..

It's been almost 9 months since we moved to this property. but I can't believe myself still unpacking stuff.(grrrrr..) I found a few pictures of our house(not home yet..) to show our friends and families overseas..

drive way to the house..

Side Entrance

View from the right of the house

View to the street level from the houseTennis Court(Tennis Anyone??..)

I made duvet cover and Joy's pillow. Beautiful princess dress pillow was made by a very talented lady from http://ourshabbycottage.blogspot.com/.

Thank you Kathlyn.Corner of Joy's bedroom

My messy craftroom
Still messy fabric stash...

Patio on the side of the house(no more flowers now)

Kitchen and meal area.

From kitchen over looking my sitting area. (Fire place in the meal area will be replaced with Pot belly wood stove.)

My sitting area (very girly..huh?, This room will soon have a makeover.)

My DH's sitting area

Bedroom drawers..

My bedroom.(couldn't go girly except the ottoman., thanks to my DH)

Corner of DH's home office..

I am still doing the guest room, formal dining room, two bathroom remodeling, and of course the Kitchen makeover..... too many things to do.. not enough time.. Sometimes I wonder, it will be easy to move to a place where everything is renovated.. We didn't particulary like the house that much but the area.. Hopefully one day all will be finished..

xx

Julie

Little Artist..

My little princess, who is 8 years new, is an Artist. She loves to draw Manga(Japanese comic). I learned Japanese to just read Manga when I was in secondary College. My little princess wants to learn Japanese so she can read more manga hon(comic book). She drew this picture with color pencils this weekend. I am a proud mum so I had to show to the world..

by Joy 2009

Julie xx

Show and Tell..

Hooray~~, I finished it.. oh. yes. I did.. It took me 6 weeks of 2hours of hard working.. My old chair is now wearing a haute couture..

Profile..

Back..

My working space at uphostery school.

My teacher is showing me what to do..

I have to tell you about Mr. Guido.. He is amazing, Master Uphosterer from Italy. He started his career when he was 15 years old. He is 70 years old now so do the math, yes, 65 years that how long he's been in same business. Actually Mr. Guido is a teacher of my current teachter Mr. Rob who was absent on the day I was finishing off my project. I was so honor to get tricks of trade from the Master. Lucky me..

My next project.. My DH's super, mega old Arm Chair..

xx

Julie

Rain Rain Come again..

We had a good rain today here in Melbourne. I was so so happy to see rain today, I never was a big fan of rain when we were in sunny California.

I love sunshine.. Its been almost 18 months since we moved from CA. Its very different life style here in Australia. We loved our beautiful little over an ACRE lot house here until we realized that there were so much work to do around the garden. Especially with water restriction here in Australia. I never had to worry about watering the garden in CA. never heard of water restriction.

Using the Sprinkler to water the garden is not permitted here.. grrrrrrrr

That's how I get to love Rainy day.. yes, I am loving rainy day.. However, our Fern garden next to the house is now totally gone with over 40 degree heat not long ago. We've been cleaning out the dead ferns over the weekend..

No more ferns left. All gone. its very sad.

No more green .. all very very brown at the moment.

I can't dare to take pics.. because its so sad looking now.

All gone..

We hope to see more rain soon.. or else.. I love to keep garden as pretty as it can be while we are here in Australia..because we want to keep the house here when we move back to US.. I sort of miss California.. but getting used to living in downunder too..

J.

New Project.. Here I come..

I mentioned in my previous posting I am doing something new from Feb. It is time to reveal what I am up to.. a part from my usual stuff. I love fabrics..They are so pretty to just look at but when you use them to create something its more prettier. I wanted to design my own fabric line, but I thought it was too big of Job to do that.. so I wanted to learn to screen print some of my designs which didn't happen yet.. but I know one day.. It will definitely happen..

Meanwhile, I got so lucky to work with textile company..doing and learning a lot of things.. They are setting up the branch office in Melbourne currently. I get to look at and feel the fabrics and wallcovering and trimmings all day long..(couldnt get better than this..). This is the blog I created for the company..

Ophir International is your one stop source for Fabrics, Trimmings and wall coverings. Here are some photos of their current product Lines..

I will update you more ... soon..

Julie xx

Job Well Done...

I've been busy setting this beautiful hair salon located in Melbourne, Camberwell to be exact. I took me 5 months from the signing of the lease to the opening the shop. Michelle, the owner of the shop is very talented hairdresser.

View from the street.

checking and checking ...

Beautiful vanity and the mirrors.

This is the pictures of shop we leased.. yikes..

Lounge area to be.

lounge area.. After..

I wish Michelle all the best with her business...

Julie xx

New found Passion.

I have neglected the blog for a while, since I have started a new project after I finished the beautiful hair salon set up and renovation in Melbourne. It took almost 5 months to start to the end. My client is very pleased how the shop came out. My next project is to set up an overseas textile company in Melbourne. As I love the textile I am in love with this project. I can't wait to show offf soon.(smile) in the meantime, I started one of my passion to do own upholstery project. Its been 5 weeks and I started my DH's ugly but comfy Arm chair and one of my French Louis chair.. I am proud how it came out so far..

My old louis chair. It was pretty as is but became my test object.

I stripped the fabric and painted white to achieve shabby look..

t took 2 lessons to do up to this point.

Making a pattern to cut the form inside to support the back.

Started to positioned the fabric. I am using "French Toile" English Country

Finished the stapling the fabric..

Added the strong fabric to support the back of the chair.

Voila!!!

Back of the chair is almost done, still need to hide all the staples with gimp.

Arm pattern is in the position.

I love how all came out together. It look very french shabby..(smile).Stay tune for the finish product..

Julie xx