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Inspiration of the Week: Outdoor Living
Hopefully, many of you are as happy as we are about daylight savings this week. As we all sprung forward Saturday night, I couldn’t help but think of how lovely it will be to have more daylight in the evenings after work. This means spending lots more time outside enjoying your outdoor living space.
At my [...]
Posted in Fabrics, Inspiration of the Week, Tessa, Uncategorized Tagged fabric, indoor/outdoor fabric, outdoor furnature, retail, Spring, upholstery Leave a comment
Oh, the Tools of Our Lives…
Upholsterers use a number of tools that are highly specialized and unique to the trade. In this post we’d like to share with you a few of our favorite tools that we use on a daily basis.
First, Max, the love of our lives … our favorite pneumatic staple gun. What makes Max so special to [...]
Posted in Confessions of an Upholsterer, The Spruce Studio and Store Tagged spruce, Spruce favorites, tools, upholstery, workshop Leave a comment
So who is that Sprucette?
So after stumping many people with our “Match that Sprucette” game, we have a winner….drum roll please….Jennifer Meuse! You are a true fan of Spruce, and we are happy to be awarding you with a fabulous prize of a large Voluspa candle. Your life just started smelling a little sweeter!
For all you out there who [...]
Posted in Tessa, The Sprucettes Tagged about spruce, Amanda, gumbo, Keegan, Lizzie, match that sprucette, Meredith, pixie, Tessa 2 Comments
Instpiration of the Week: New Orleans!!!
One of the most beautiful cities I have been lucky enough to visit in the U.S. is definitely New Orleans. It seems only fitting to make this great city the inspiration of the week considering the Saints won the Superbowl and Mardi Gras is next week. Who dat!
Before I had my first trip to the [...]
Play Match That Sprucette!
We would like to challenge you all to a little game of “Match that Sprucette.” Below you will find six different categories of our things for you to try to guess which item goes with which one of the Sprucettes.
Just to make it interesting, the person to send in the most correct answers first will [...]
Posted in The Sprucettes 1 Comment
Confessions of an Upholstery Fledgling: How Things Have Changed
Changing jobs is always a big transition, especially when you go from an office job to physical trade work as an upholsterer. Now in my fourth month of work at Spruce, I feel very comfortable in the new environment and can look back on my old job with a sense of humor about how things [...]
Pimp My Apron
So one of the things that made me most excited about my new job at Spruce was that I got to wear an apron all day. As a long time collector of different aprons, this was a dream come true to sport one all day at work.
On my first day, I was able to [...]
Posted in Confessions of an Upholsterer, Tessa Tagged aprons, schumacher, Skinny la Minx, South Africa 3 Comments
Confessions of an Upholstery Fledgling
So it finally happened. I knew it would eventually as it has happened to all the other girls here at Spruce. And it is only fitting that my “initiation” into upholstery would happen only three days after my apprenticeship ended and midway through my first week of real production. I stapled my finger.
This was something [...]
Posted in Confessions of an Upholsterer, Tessa Tagged apprenticeship, injury, upholsterer 2 Comments
Inspiration of the week
Over the past few weeks I have been working on broadening my horizons in the creative world. Besides leaving a desk job for trade work in upholstery, I am making a vow to seek out more art in Austin and expose myself to others’ creative self expression on a more consistent basis.
This was overwhelmingly [...]
Posted in Around Town, Inspiration of the Week, Tessa Tagged art, Austin, East Austin Studio Tour 5 Comments
Farewell Spruce