Website Design Reading Berks County PA
My husband and I live on 3 and a half acres that we affectionately named “Freyman Farms”. Last year he had the idea to pick up pinecones that had fallen from the copious amount of Eastern White Pine trees we have on our property. His plan was to sell them online to people who use them for crafts. He’s actually made enough sales to want to brand himself on etsy, so I created a logo for his side venture. If you need some quality pinecones, check them out here.
Invite design created for my baby shower coming up in a couple weeks. My nursery theme is owls.
Well I’ve been married a little over a month now, so I thought it was about time I shared the things I made for my own big day. The list of possibilities are endless for DIY weddings, but I had to reign it in at invitations, bulletins, a website, favors, and corn-hole. Check out the final invitations and favors below and see our website at www.freymanwedding.com
Well its officially 1 month before my wedding day, and my Fiance and I had been planning on creating DIY cornhole bean bag toss games for our guests to enjoy during cocktail hour and the reception. We finally tackled that project this past weekend, and it sure was time consuming! See a few pictures of the process below. Mike built it and I did the painting and staining. Already building our team working skills 🙂
Every kid grew up with that chair. You know, when you walked home from school and slung off your backpack; the one you plopped down into and watched the 4pm episode of Gilmore Girls on. The one you stayed up until the wee hours playing Spyro The Dragon on PS1 in. The one that was directly beside the family desktop computer, where you had to be home from school quickly so you could get on AIM to message the friends you JUST left at school. Yeah. This was that chair for me.
My parent’s bought it, along with two other sofas of the same pattern shortly after we moved to the house I grew up in, around April of 1998. I was about 7 years old then. So, when my mom decided she wanted to finally replace it a few weeks ago (almost two decades later), I can hardly blame her, but I couldn’t help but feel a bit of sadness. I grew up on that chair.
So, as most great journeys and adventures begin, it started with a google search for “reupholstering an armchair”.
One last shot of the chair in it’s original habitat. Since I graduated highschool, went through college and subsequently moved out, Mia has taken my place in making sure the chair gets used. Structurally it is still very sound. However the fabric was tearing at the arm, cushion was ripped and frankly smelled like dog.
The chair finally made it to my apartment. 90’s floral pattern…so not in right now.
Huntley was my mom’s before I brought him to live with me. After much sniffing he remembered the chair and sat on it exactly like he used to.
DAY 1: DE-UPHOLSTERING
Saturday I spent almost 5 hours pulling out what felt like thousands of staples. This was by far the hardest part of this whole process, physically and time consuming wise. It’s imperative to get the pieces of fabric off without ripping, because they are the pattern when cutting new fabric.
Amongst the treasures buried deep inside the chair: A cat nail from god knows what cat. (seven have come in contact with that chair in the past 20 years), regurgitated dog food, and the WINNER: an Oreo-O cereal piece, which I haven’t eaten in a solid 15 years. Yummy.
At the end of the day I had a completely naked chair. The padding was still in pretty good condition.
I had bought myself a sowing machine when I figured out I would be attempting this project. Even if I botched the chair, I figured it would be a good thing to have. The bad news is I hadn’t used one since Home-Ec class in 8th grade….over a decade ago. (that hurts to say) Even then, we only made pillows, so I was pretty unsure about it.
Luckily, only the bottom fabric and the arms had to be sown. The bottom fabric in a straight line, which was fairly easy. The arms however where very difficult, but I think they turned out okay.
FINISHED
So, now I have a new chair that comes with a whole lot of memories, for a fairly low price. I’m super happy I decided to take on this project. Once Mike and I have a house and I have more space to work this is definitely something I could get into doing.
DAY 3: RELAX
Now it’s Monday morning and Huntley and I spent some time relaxing in our new chair until it’s time to get to work. Thanks for reading!
Another few months have gone by. I’ve been busy working on a few new projects, including a couple logo designs that I want to share today!
First up, a brand new start-up company that creates awesome pieces of decorated metals. The client in this case knew pretty much exactly what they wanted. I just had to work out the kinks.
Next project was for a company that specializes in flooring & tile. Geometric graphics were used to create the lettering, which is representative of the tiling and flooring services this company provides. When the letterforms are organized vertically, it resembles an arrow pointing upwards. This is a great symbolization of the quality of work being above standard.
The long awaited release of Pokemon Go finally happened almost a week ago.
I’ve been pretty psyched about it since Niantic announced it last winter. Even more psyched when I was chosen to be a beta tester at the end of May.
Server load has made the game unplayable at times, which is frustrating, but overall I’m still excited to partake in this adventure. I chose Team Valor, due to my inner child always choosing Charmander as my starter. Fire forever. I noticed the Valor team logo was, well, rougher than the other two team logos. It didn’t seem to fit as well with the smooth edges of Team Mystic and Instinct. So, of course I had to fix that.
See what I’m saying? Anyway, great game. I would suggest you play it but chances are you already are, so join me in Valor!!
#GoteamValor
Exciting news, my store has gone live. Check out a couple cool prints available as well as a downloadable version of #Smurflinglessons
Starting a new “for-fun” poster series for the game Ingress.
A creative job can be a heck of a lot easier in a creative atmosphere.
So, I decided to ditch the white walls and go for something unique. Here is my progress:
Welcome to my new office! Next thing is replacing the carpet…
