Sew Much More

For Beuancha Jeffries, it was a natural progression from many years of hand crafts, knitting, needlepoint and cross-stitch to creating her business, Soft Furnishings and Home Décor. A combined 30-year career in the Corporate manufacturing process using assembly equipment, and working in an office environment interpreting blue prints, schematics, following government standards prepared Beuancha for her passion, creating beautiful Home Decor for the home furnishings industry following professional standards and specifications and also managing a workroom.

 

 Sew Cozy Interiors (SCI) opened its doors in June 2003 as a part time home based workroom offering pillows, bedding and draperies. Beuancha worked in her workroom at night after working her day job. In 2009, she received a retirement package from my company and she began working in her drapery workroom, Sew Cozy Interiors full time, and has never looked back.

 

 

Beuancha is a Certified Career Professional in Window Treatments, Advanced Window Treatments, Pillows and Bedding and Window Treatment Installation and Advanced Installations through the Custom Home Furnishings Academy (CHFA).  A member of Drapery and Design Network, WCAA National and WCAA Atlanta. She is on the Program Committee of the Designer Workroom Council (DWC) in Atlanta. She attends many semi-annual and annual conferences, learning the newest time saving custom methods for achieving durable fabrication, correct measurement and professional standards and results.

 

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On this podcast, we talk with some of the first time instructors who applied for and had their classes accepted for the Custom Workroom Conference. I interviewed them both before the Conference and after. I wanted to hear what they were excited about, what, if anything they were nervous about and then how they felt after they taught.

Pamela Lin

The Sophisticated Touch

Bianca Henry

Impressions Decorating and Design

Ken VanSickle

Install What's New

Liz Hawkes

Windows by Liz

On this podcast, we talk with some of the first time instructors who applied for and had their classes accepted for the Custom Workroom Conference.   I interviewed them both before the Conference and after.  I wanted to hear what they were excited about, what, if anything they were nervous about and then how they felt after they taught.

 

Pamela Lin

The Sophisticated Touch

Bianca Henry

Impressions Decorating and Design

Ken VanSickle

Install What's New

Liz Hawkes

Windows by Liz

Jana Platina Phipps is an embellishment expert known for her refined vision in the use of trimmings in home furnishings and fashion. She is a designer and an agent for Classical Elements, which supplies trimmings and drapery hardware to the home furnishings industry, customizes private label programs for interior design distributors, and sells to retail stores nationally. She develops custom trimmings for NYC-based fashion companies, and also designs bespoke home and fashion accessories herself, using trimmings and vintage jewelry. She teaches others her technique of Trim Alchemy, the concept of turning something ordinary into extraordinary using trimmings, to express their personal creativity. Affectionately called "Trim Queen" by her clients, she started her blog in 2013 and uses her social media channels to chronicle how the design community uses trimmings creatively. With her knowledge of the history of passementerie and hands-on experience with fabrication, she lectures at The New York School of Interior Design and Continuing Education Seminars and Webinars to the interior design community. She is a regular contributor to WF Vision and Designers Today Magazines, and Universal Furniture's Smartstuff Social Station blog. She conducts DIY workshops and stages a Trim Alchemy Show at Country Living Fairs across the country. Jana is planning a Trim Queen Maker Tour of Venice, Italy for Spring 2018. Other involvement:

• High Point Market Design Bloggers Tour Spring 2017
• 2016 ITA Outstanding Trimmings Representative of the Year
• ITA Board of Directors, Events Chair
• Co-chair WithIt New York Design Tour
• WithIt Future Leader Award
• Former WithIt NE Regional VP
• UU Congregation of the Hudson Valley Arts Committee

Jana resides in the Hudson River Valley, north of Manhattan, with her husband, writer Lang Phipps, and two children, Wilton and Giovanna, in an old Bavarian-style home called The Gingerbread House that is in need of TLC and more trimmings. During the podcast we mentioned; Elizabeth Gilbert's Book, Big Magic The Be Bold, Be Brave, Be You Podcast with Maggie Mistal The Million Dollar Decorating Podcast

Jana Platina Phipps is an embellishment expert known for her refined vision in the use of trimmings in home furnishings and fashion. She is a designer and an agent for Classical Elements, which supplies trimmings and drapery hardware to the home furnishings industry, customizes private label programs for interior design distributors, and sells to retail stores nationally.  She develops custom trimmings for NYC-based fashion companies, and also designs bespoke home and fashion accessories herself, using trimmings and vintage jewelry.  She teaches others her technique of Trim Alchemy, the concept of turning something ordinary into extraordinary using trimmings, to express their personal creativity. Affectionately called “Trim Queen” by her clients, she started her blog in 2013 and uses her social media channels to chronicle how the design community uses trimmings creatively. With her knowledge of the history of passementerie and hands-on experience with fabrication, she lectures at The New York School of Interior Design and Continuing Education Seminars and Webinars to the interior design community. She is a regular contributor to WF Vision and Designers Today Magazines, and Universal Furniture’s Smartstuff Social Station blog. She conducts DIY workshops and stages a Trim Alchemy Show at Country Living Fairs across the country. Jana is planning a Trim Queen Maker Tour of Venice, Italy for Spring 2018. Other involvement:

• High Point Market Design Bloggers Tour Spring 2017
• 2016 ITA Outstanding Trimmings Representative of the Year
• ITA Board of Directors, Events Chair
• Co-chair WithIt New York Design Tour
• WithIt Future Leader Award
• Former WithIt NE Regional VP
• UU Congregation of the Hudson Valley Arts Committee

Jana resides in the Hudson River Valley, north of Manhattan, with her husband, writer Lang Phipps, and two children, Wilton and Giovanna, in an old Bavarian-style home called The Gingerbread House that is in need of TLC and more trimmings.   During the podcast we mentioned; Elizabeth Gilbert's Book, Big Magic   The Be Bold, Be Brave, Be You Podcast with Maggie Mistal The Million Dollar Decorating Podcast

We have an upholstery theme going on again this week! I visited Kim Chagnon while she was teaching a three day, hands on class in Lancaster, PA. I already knew a few of her students but there were some new people there and they all shared why hands on is important to them and what they brought with them to learn!

Many thanks to Kim and to the women in the class who spent their dinner time with me and shared their experiences with me.

The Air BnB that the class was held in was just adorable, lots of space and had beautiful window treatments!!! Mary Jo Huyard is the owner and it was just lovely!

You can find Kim Chagnon at;

Kim's Upholstery Facebook Page

Kim's Upholstery

Mary Jo Huyard at;

MH Designs

Adrienne Lucas at;

Adrienne's Luxury Interiors Facebook

Adrienne's Luxury Interiors

Annette Brandt at; Annetti's Custom Window Treatments Facebook Annetti's Custom Window Treatments Diana Hershey at; DBH Designs DBH Designs Facebook page

We have an upholstery theme going on again this week!  I visited Kim Chagnon while she was teaching a three day, hands on class in Lancaster, PA.  I already knew a few of her students but there were some new people there and they all shared why hands on is important to them and what they brought with them to learn!

Many thanks to Kim and to the women in the class who spent their dinner time with me and shared their experiences with me.

The Air BnB that the class was held in was just adorable, lots of space and had beautiful window treatments!!!  Mary Jo Huyard is the owner and it was just lovely!

You can find Kim Chagnon at;

Kim's Upholstery Facebook Page

Kim's Upholstery

Mary Jo Huyard at;

MH Designs

Adrienne Lucas at;

Adrienne's Luxury Interiors Facebook

Adrienne's Luxury Interiors

  Annette Brandt at; Annetti's Custom Window Treatments Facebook Annetti's Custom Window Treatments   Diana Hershey at; DBH Designs DBH Designs Facebook page

Cynthia Bleskachek has been working as a professional upholsterer since 2001 and teaching since 2010. In 2008 she won a first place craftsmanship award through The Upholstery Journal for a tufted chair.

She was a featured presenter at the 2015 Minneapolis Junk Bonanza, with appearances on Kare 11 and Fox 9. She's also presented at numerous events for the PUAM (Professional Upholstery Association of Minnesota)

in 2014, she was contacted by Craftsy to help create their first online upholstery class, Getting Started with Upholstery, a class which now has a 5 star rating and over 6,000 enrolled students from all over the world.

Cynthia currently works and teaches at her shop, "The Funky Little Chair" in St. Paul, Minnesota. She continues to look for new ways to share her love of upholstery with clients and students.

Here is a link to Cynthia's class on Craftsy that includes 50% off!

Cynthia Bleskachek has been working as a professional upholsterer since 2001 and teaching since 2010. In 2008 she won a first place craftsmanship award through The Upholstery Journal for a tufted chair.

She was a featured presenter at the 2015 Minneapolis Junk Bonanza, with appearances on Kare 11 and Fox 9.  She's also presented at numerous events for the PUAM (Professional Upholstery Association of Minnesota)

in 2014, she was contacted by Craftsy to help create their first online upholstery class, Getting Started with Upholstery, a class which now has a 5 star rating and over 6,000 enrolled students from all over the world.

Cynthia currently works and teaches at her shop, "The Funky Little Chair" in St. Paul, Minnesota. She continues to look for new ways to share her love of upholstery with clients and students.

 Here is a link to Cynthia's class on Craftsy that includes 50% off!

Recorded at the Custom Workroom Conference, this podcast is a roundtable discussion with workrooms from the US and the UK, headed by Penny Bruce from Denton Drapes and Nancy Letts from Pine House Drapery.

Also featured in this podcast are;

Jennifer DeRosa of Beyond Windows, LLC

Theda Hadden of Springwood Upholstery

Jane Crawford of Jane Crawford Interiors

Diana Heinen of Two Sisters Drapery

Laurel McGee

The Instagram accounts we mentioned during the recording are uniquefurnitureuk and workshopdesigns.