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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 [...]
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“Oh, what’s in a name?”
So one of my favorite pastimes is to go to the book store. Now I know I have already let you in on my love for Jane Austen. However, it’s an overall love for books that finds me continually drawn back into a place filled with rows and rows of these treasures. I was just [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Also posted in Around Town, Inspiration of the Week Tagged art, Austin, East Austin Studio Tour 5 Comments
Confessions of an Upholstery Apprentice 1
Tessa Cooper as her sugar paste self CONFESSION #1 So after six years of working in public relations, event planning and production, and finally advertising, I found myself not really liking the marketing world. Oddly, it took doing what my degree was in, advertising, to realizing this line of work was not for me. I [...]
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Inspiration of the Week: Outdoor Living