How to give a second life to your furniture

Sometimes we have a choice, either we need to throw away some piece of furniture or maybe it`s our chance to make something creative and unusual.

I had one strong but not good looking table. Few days I`ve been thinking what to do with it. And finally I decided to give it a new life. This is a result that I had (and have now of course) at the end.

The process was not hard. But anyway, you’ll need patience because it takes time. In my case, it took approximately one week.


From my previous experience, I knew that if a paper is used with enough quantity of PVA glue then the final construction would be as strong as wood.
 

I had an idea to cover legs of the table with something like a rope. But where I can take a paper rope? I decided to make it by myself. I took 4 toilet rolls (it`s very important to use rolls without perforation holes) and first twisted each of them so that they looked like a clew. There were 4 very big “clews”. Then I twisted two “threads” of two “clews”. It was the most boring and the hardest stage in all processes. Thus if you have a possibility to buy paper rope just do it J A cotton rope I think can be an alternative.
 

 On the second stage, I’ve used a lot of PVA to glue my “rope” on the table legs and painted it with black acrylic paint. There are few secrets here:

• It`s better to cover your table with paint before fixing “rope” with glue. This will help you in future when you will paint the legs with “rope”
• The second secret is to start with the top part of a leg. Glue the “rope” and leave it to dry. It’s more convenient to work when the end of a “rope” is fixed.
• Use PVA mixed 50/50 with water and add in this mixture your black paint. It will dry a bit longer but you’ll have almost painted table legs at once.
• Give time for table legs to dry. In my case, one night for two legs was enough. The next day I did my magic with the rest two.

 




The most wonderful part is to paint on the table with acrylic paints. These paints are drying very quickly and you will receive your masterpiece within a few hours. You can use a pen to make a sketch. Then cover your sketch with neutral color. Then make a background of your picture and voila! Just paint on it what you want. In my case, the picture is not very professional. That time I just started to learn drawing. But you can do this better!


When the painting is done, take a sponge and silver paint to cover surfaces of your table except for the top of the table of course. It will look like old silver and maybe an antique piece of art. So pity that the photo can’t show how it’s in real life to protect your work cover the table with acrylic varnish. I made 4 layers. Read the instructions of your varnish before using to be sure in all process.


When everything will be finished breathes deeply and be proud of yourself!
Hope you’ll enjoy using your new table like I do.

Posted by JanArt:)
Yours Julia Moshack

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6 Things That I Try Not To Do

I welcome you everyone!

Here again I decide to share with you my experience, and while before I was telling you what and how I do, then in this article I want to talk just about what I try to avoid.

There is a great number of doing things which are not needed, and we, including me as usual, however do that... and the fact that we do them, often prevents us to attain success, well or at least, simply prevents!
I produced these rules for myself, if they will become useful for someone, I will be very satisfied, and if someone has their considerations on this occasion, please, divide them with us, let us interchange experience.

1. To write/to plan the unreal for an implementation lists of businesses on a day, week, month etc.

Such was before for me - I will write a whole enormous list in the gust of passion, and by the end of day I realize that for a half of them I do not have time at all, and not because was lazy (though it happens at times is reason...) and because forces did not had. Now I try to plan the modest amount of businesses through and I try to execute them all fully.
 
2. To do businesses, not dividing them into important/not important.

I try to divide businesses into important and not and most important. I do it while my head is yet fresh, in the early morning. And after dinner, when there is already some sense of tiredness, it is possible to begin less important businesses, for example to prepare purveyances for the next day.

3. Doing everything ideal.

On this idea I was pushed by my friend, who said once, that aspirations interfere with always doing everything ideal. As it appears, to do everything ideal is not necessary! Certainly, it is necessary clearly to present, what businesses you can take the liberty of to do unideal. For example, if you are very high-usage work or have a rush order, it is possible to simplify some domestic businesses: unideal iron the linen, do the not ideal cleaning up, and it is simple to place things into the places, to wash the floor not everywhere, but the only muddiest areas, not to prepare a supper, and to order pizza...! In fact except us, at times nobody will not see any difference, and we will have free time for an ideal implementation of other businesses.
 
4. To do everything independent, because nobody will do it better than me.

But there are businesses that really can be passed to the other, for example, I ask a husband to execute some domestic businesses or drive to the artistic shop and buy everything, that I need, strict on a list or to send the prepared orders to the customers etc. He is a fine fellow, always consenting.

5. To accept new.

Try to take and do that thing you have never done before and suddenly it will please you. For example, I had such ideas: "it is not for me", “I do not write the article", "I do not conduct auctions", "I do not participate in exhibitions", “it is not my" etc. Maybe, you have some stereotypes regarding yourself too. You need to simply try!!!

6. To not deprive yourself a rest.

All of us know it. I did not want to be banal, but nevertheless decided once again to write about it. Yes, having rest is necessary, so one should really must rest.
 
So that’s all, I want to have some rest now.
I wish pleasant work and creative success to all!!!

by Estrina Kaas

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Workplace: searching of the hidden backlogs

I will not place here beautiful pictures from some stranger, seeming unreal, lives, and I will be limited to only that is able to do for myself at home.

At first I suffered on all apartment with a suitcase in search of my place, then unnoticed, won the place of a closet in a bedroom :)


Happiness was short, in one wonderful moment I felt that a place is nevertheless undersized.
Sinking to one side on folks estimating, that voluntarily nobody of them will not freethe room, Decision came as an old garage and lithoidal shed. With masters there was made a repair of apartments. Under my most strict control masters did everything, that I bethought to for a successful workshop. Certainly, something yet finished off farther more, brought in designer decisions and WOW turned out!
 Welcome to my inspired monastery :)

 All repair was more than budgetary, all walls in the workshop of a different color. Acquired a paint in a nearby shop on a sale.  And one working wall decided to glue up with pictures and undercuts from magazines that on that moment warmed the soul and especially made a happy possibility of permanent updating it, by gluing up of tired pictures.

Specially for the workshop I divided a table into three working places. (it does not mean that I plan to collect workers, simply typewriters in permanent work and to move them is uncomfortable, it is much simpler to sit on a new place). A table is the simplest and cheap construction from 4th stands. For a comfort a sewing machine is sunk in a table, try, very comfortable!

All other furniture is bought for a neighbor on Garage Sale J pasted over the Back walls old undercuts, wallpapers - decorated shorter. Glued the sheet of tin, a magnetic wall painted and turned out. Very useful!



Well, and a working wall is fully collected from "that it was"


A box from a writing desk transforms in holder for ribbons and braid.
 
To the analogical construction -holder for a lace, but with the use of cardboard spools.
Here is an incomprehensible box having a brightly-pink color and inscription of Barbie found application.
 
And everything is simple here, therefore simply beautiful pictures :)
 
From window molding filletа and bamboo swords are holders for spools.

And it is a new life of the beaten cup and offcutss of the knitted fabric. Buttons assorted beforeon little packages, are very comfortable to keep in transparent jars.


 At last there was a place to the laces saved in enormous amounts.
 

 Chandeliers partact bamboo cages


And this "dresser" is very capacious  and very heavy, ideal for storage of little things, and in an underbody supplies of fabrics.

A cutting out table that I like very much stands in a center. I do not understand how lucky I was to buy it so cheap. It is so large, that its little, but most beautiful part was placed in a shot.
 
And favourite sewing typewriters!
 

And farther - zone of Relax. During an interruption it is possible to have a drink a cup of coffee and read a favorite book, and in damp weather it is simply possible to warm up by the fireplace. Wonderful, isn’t it?!
 


Here, dear guests, what a pity, that you leave, I hope that I did not too tired you.
 
 
And the most important : dreams come true! True-true, maybe not immediately, on slightly, it is needed only exactly to set forth them.

by Светлана Фадеева

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Family And Work. How to have time here and there. My experience

The other day I read comments to one of posts and got terrified: so many work from a morning to night, not seeing family, someone abandons children on a weekend with grandmothers, and go to do orders, etc. I remember myself a few years ago, when I only began to work: round the clocks I sit at the computer, all weekend I wrote down tutorials and wrote the articles, and when orders went, then I began to work yet at nights. Even being on a vacation, I continued to work.

But once I got on the living training that compelled me fully to cut again the business hours. Training was on a quite remote theme, however at some instant a trainer said: "In the process of work and by a race after money you have no authority to forget about those, for whom you do all of it. Those, who you so try for the sake of, must be always on the first place for you ". These words opened  my eyes on my situation. Actually, only for the sake of these words I needed to come on this training.
I understood that trying to do better to the family, I do only worse. What will remember my daughter after a few years: that how cool we went at the seaside that year or that she did not see the mother that ploughed practically, that a child enjoyed in summer? Beautiful dresses/blouses or always sitting at the computer mother that worked, to make her daughter look as a doll?
Then I said myself - my family is the topmost.
How it reflected in reality:
1. I took to myself that time, when I will not work not under any circumstances - on Sunday and each evening, when daughter comes from school. This time is only for her.
2. On Saturday we, as a rule, work, but child here with us: we assign her that she helped us, or she engages in the businesses in this moment - draws, plays, reads. Thus on Saturday we do not abandon important businesses requiring an overpressure, therefore during work we communicate calmly, laugh loudly, joke. If it is needed to do something, requiring a concentration, then it only then, when daughter sleeps. Such principle allows us not to be nervous, if daughter distracts us with something, and vice versa, work merry and friendly.
3. I began to work less, but more productive. For me the always strictly taken time is on writing of posts, prosecution of tutorials and answers on a comments. This time occupies at most 2 hours in a day. All other time, if I work on orders, I do not open web-sites that does not need me for work presently.
4. To teach myself to work, not distract, I periodically include a timer (before I used him constantly).
As I use a timer. Maximal time on that it can be set - 45 minutes, minimum 5 minutes. When I only began to work with a timer, I put a timer during all day: 45 minutes on this work, 15 minutes ona break during that it is possible to have a drink of tea or getting on some other work, et cetera. You do not present how much can be done for a day! For example, I could work at once on two different orders, and quite not to get tired, because I changed the type of activity constantly. Mainly, beforehand to prepare all necessary materials and instruments on different tables and after the wearing-out of timer it is simple to pass to other business. It allows to work a ten times more productive and quicker!

5. I use helpers. As helpers for me acquaintances and relativescome forward, as a rule.
For what works it is possible to take helpers. For example, it is possible to find a helper on the dispatch of parcels to the customers, in fact it occupies lots of time - to go down on mail, stay in a turn, fill in form et cetera. By the way, helpers can become your family members are childrenwith the greatest pleasure, cadets and sisters, and can be grandmothers and grand-dads. Maybe, they only wait when you will ask them about it. For example, my daughter adores, when many colors are ordered by me, because she helps to pack every floweret in a package and clamp a package with a stapler.
6. We often speak with a husband and with a child on a theme work and joint rest. We build plans together, put aims, discuss, how these aims we will arrive at. It gives us all understanding that we are family, but not each by themselves.
7. I renounce orders and projects, if it conflicts with the 1 point of this list. All money cannot be earned, and there is a domestic peace - this is the most important. It is possible to treat  without that chic dress on a New Year, it is possible not to eat for three chocs a day, it is possible rarer to walk in restaurants, but more often to be with the native, more often to speak with them, to have a resttogether, watch films, go for a walk on the forest.
 
In this post I wanted to say that Your family –is the most expensive, what you have. You have no right to deprive the family attention for the sake of work.
Sit down and think over, how you must cut again the business hours and activity so that were with familyyou a sufficient amount of time:
- work more productive and quicker;
- leave off a clock to sit in social networking and publics;
- search helpers;
- eventually, renounce those projects that will bring to you not very much money, but will take away plenty of time.

by Estrina Kaas

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5 Rules Of How To Make Successful Your "Home Business"

There are very much articles on this themeIn the internet. They all are very large, finishing reading to the end, it is sometimes necessary to climb upstairs, to remember what was at the beginning)))

My article is very simple, but on occasion, as it seems tome, very necessary)))
And the main, that the article gives to understand that we must... but not to try to find an answer in customers)))

Step 1. Passion.
Passion conducts people, it must examine with x-rays through all your works. Passion holds us, when already nothing can manage. You must not simply do your works - the fire of passion must burn to the beautyin you! In fact you so like to do something with your own hands, that simply can not stop - whatever betide.
If you will not have passion for that you do, do not make it not for sale. Without passion you will surrender very quickly. You will do your commodity in a bad quality and very soon will begin to hate that, and will simply be unhappy. And it all will affect your works. Do everything with passion or do not try to sell it, because successful domestic business is simply impossible to create without passion.

Step 2. Quality.
Not simply good value, but the best. Constantly improve it from a thing to the thing, and your customers will estimate quality and will pay more. Certainly, they will have a desire to buy cheaper, but one time disappointed, they will buy quality next time. It can firstly cost expensive to you, but the produced reputation as a result will bring a more benefit to you. If you want to base your business on a long term, reputation - is everything. And soon products with your name will grow to itself a price. Nothing will interrupt quality.

Step 3. Uniqueness.
You are unique personality, and your things must carry in itself a part of your individuality. Study works of the best masters in your area, and you will understand how to produce the style. Never do in exactness that is done by the other. But do not try to create your style by making strange things - most people do not like to look foolishly. Simply add your own stroke, or other color, do things darker or lighter etc.
Are you a happy human? Or captious? What part of yourself do you want to reflect in your works? Find a method to tell people about your work. Create your own unique successful domestic business.

Step 4. Purposefulness.
Research, research, while you will not understand your aim at the market. It is the most difficult step, but when you will find the clients, you will save the great number of forces and time. People, that are not interested in what you do, will not come to buy. Millions of people buy and sell on Ebay (on-line-auction - note of translator.), and you can lay out the commodity theretoo. But not distress, if you will not find nothing of the kind there, very many things are better offlinefor sale. You can use internet-auctions as marketing instrument - they perfectly befit in an order to find out a situation and as a result to get the best price for your thing.
Marketing of sale research is a wonderful instrument of development of business. Even your nearest surroundings, maybe, very much possibility have for your expansion. A teleologism does sales far more effective

Step 5. Persistence.
Be persistent. If you passed the first 4 steps, persistence itself will justify. Always advance, study your handicraft, here passion will help you, and continue to extend your list of clients.
Do not be afraid of refuses. Study them, draw conclusion and move farther. That is why passion is so useful - if it decreases and then a persistence decreases. Without the persistence of selling at your wares will be very small.
Now that you have all, what you need for development of own domestic business - passion, quality, aims and persistence - it is possible bravely to begin to count money from the sales of your wares!

Good luck and success!

Picture by Estrina`s User Tatjana Miroshnik
Title by Estrina

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Как заработать на своем хобби?

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