Restoration and reupholstering of an old chair

A few months ago we visited a friend, as we went out of her house near the trash I saw a wonderful yet ugly looking chair.
I know I had to have it, I was able to persuade my husband to put the chair into our car.
You must understand my husband's car should always be clean; putting the chair in, with no protection on the upholstery was not an easy task!!!





The procedure took a few months.
I took off the old fabric, which was old and dirty,
scraped, refilled and painted some parts of the wood work.
Found a fabric that suits my taste, added foam, and batting,
stapled the fabric in the right place...
...........made a few mistakes along the way…......... :-) !!!
Then added a matching trim with a hot glue gun, burned my fingers....
to cover to up the staples.

I enjoyed the transformation very much and I am happy I did it.



The fact that I didn't give the job to a real professional upholsterer was the most satisfying for me.
It was worth the work!!!



















I really recommend looking into these sites, as they do give a wonderful insight and understanding of what you are supposed to do during the procedure.

poetichome

bhg

decorno


chaircouture

metrosofa

alkemie

morewaystowastetime

countryliving

To all who want to DIY - good luck!!!

How to sew Oilcloth / vinyl fabric tutorial

You want to sew oilcloth / vinyl fabric?
You don't know how…

We found a few solutions over the course of our work which we would love to share with you.

* Do not sew and unstitch it will leave marks that you will not be able to repair

* You must have a good design, try out first on paper or old linen fabric.

* Do not use pins – they will make holes.



* Make all your signs / marks with sewing chalk



* Use masking tape to connect webbing



* Use paper clips or cloth peg to hold together the different parts




























*** Most important use a special Teflon leg for the sewing machine so that the oil cloth will not get stuck.
You can find a great tutorial on U handbag .

Alfa studio- Guest Artist in Australian Homespun Magazine

Sebastian the snail sitting on the top shelf on the front page!!!

We are so privileged to be Guest Artist on the front page and cover story on Australian Homespun craft magazine this month issue February 2009.

The editor of homespun magazine saw our work on our etsy shop and offered us an opportunity to showcase our designs. We were especially honored as we are the first Israeli guest artisans on the magazine.

Our work is presented with full description of ourselves, our background, how we started, the business and a tutorial of how to put together our "Sebastian the snail".

How to create a snail – a full tutorial teaching even a beginner crafter "how to", step by step put together a snail in a days work.

Our motto: "Always to things from your heart it will show through your work".

Honored to be in the next issue of Homespun

We feel so honored that our project, Sebastian the snail, will be featured on the next issue of Homespun craft magazine in Australia.

Sebastian the snail in Homespun Vol 10 No 2

Our girls poject!!!

We wanted to share with you a wonderful project our girls worked
on their last vacation.

The outcome was outstanding!!!!

Starting again after a long pause

We have been working on so many things that we didn't have time to post in our blog.

One of the difficulties for us is that English is not our mother tongue.

At least it's a good excuse Ha! Ha!

I really don't understand how all the bloggers have so much time to do everything.

They are probably much younger and were born with a computer on

their laps like my children. For me everything in the computer seems

so difficult but… I'm not going to give up; if my 91 year old father in

law can do it maybe I could too.

We have been making many new things.

Fabric bags and went on to vinyl - oilcloth fabric bags.

The bags were a hit we had lots of orders

as they are the latest fashion.

We would love to add a tutorials and tips on how to work with vynal fabric or oilcloth, we will do this in the near future.

We worked for some time looking for a solution for our book reading.

A book cover that would hold that book, turn the pages give light and if it could read for us out loud it would be perfect

We will introduce our new project in the near future!!!

The Old City of Jerusalem- Colors & Scents

Walking around the small alleys of the old city in Jerusalem you
see beautiful colors and smell the so many different scents.

We present only a few so that you'll catch the idea.

veils & scarfs

beads & gem stones

incense & spices

Things we love...

Hope you can feel the atmosphere!!!

Halloween,Dressing up & all the fun

So your kids want to dress up for Halloween.
This is what we did;
We asked our girls what they want to dress up to,
It is a consequence to take, as you don't know what the answer would be.
Their answer .......Stabilo Boss Markers!!!

They were four and each wanted a different color.

We worked the entire week and this is the result.









I know we posted this earlier but since the holiday is coming up we wanted to remind everyone of the idea.

Show off flowers in my garden- The apple of Soddom

School started so we wish all the kids good luck and a wonderful year.
We are full of energy and are ready to start working on lots of new ideas with fabric .

Thing we love

We wanted to share with you all the beautiful plant that grows
in my garden it is called :
The apple of Soddom

After the flowers of the Soddom Apple open – the bees
visit for nectar. Later the fruits start to develop.
The fruits grow very fast, as there's almost nothing in them,
only seeds, that have silk parachutes to help them
fly in the light wind to new places where they can start a new
life cycle. In the picture you can see that
some of the seeds disconnect themselves from the fruit to start
their journey.
Flowering Distrebution:Dead Sea & Judah desert, Central Negev (Desert), Eilat Region

The story that is told for the origin of the plant is that God was so angry after he saw the sins of the inhabitants of Sodom, Gomorrah that he cursed and changed the apple trees in that area. Apple trees that gave sweet and juicy fruit turned into fruit that is hollow and poisonous.

Vacation

Off on vacation.
For our daughters Bat mitzvah celebration we went on a trip to U.S.A..
We had a wonderful trip in N.Y.C. & California; a mother and daughter quality time.
Our boys back home had their own quality time with their fathers ,
you can imagine every one was happy........