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Learn Modern Upholstery with Micaela Sharp & Create Academy

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Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to reupholster your own furniture? This is a question I asked myself when the only upholstery workroom in town closed during the early days of the pandemic. Knowing how to reupholster a tired old chair or a comfortable sofa that has seen better days is, without a doubt, a mad skill to have. It takes time and patience to acquire but, once you master the basics, you open yourself up to a world of immense creativity and satisfaction.

My most successful upholstery project so far 🙂
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Create Academy’s 25% OFF Easter Sale

Hey friends, great news! Create Academy is having their Easter Sale right now with 25% OFF on all of their courses! If you’ve been tempted to try out one of their classes in the past, now would be an excellent time to go for it. With their exquisitely photographed and detailed courses taught by leading experts on a variety of topics that include cooking, gardening, landscape and interior design, upholstery, block printing, sewing, interior styling etc, Create Academy offers a wonderful learning opportunity to anyone looking to expand their creativity and skillset, or to just be entertained in the company of experts. Throughout this post I’ve highlighted some of my favorite courses but there are many more to chose from. You can access the sale HERE, or by any of the links in this post, using the code SPRING25 at checkout. The sale ends on April 11th.  Happy learning!

Grow a Spectacular Garden in Pots by Arthur Parkinson

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A Note on Create Academy

Prompted by a dear reader’s question (Hi, Sheena!) I realized that, while I have reviewed a number of Create Academy courses on the blog, many of you are perhaps still not familiar with the platform, so I thought I’d give you a flavor of their amazing mission and course offerings. Create Academy is a learning platform focusing on arts, crafts, gardening, food and interior design. They launched in November 2019  with an online course by the British interior decorator Rita Konig, followed by a class on floristry with the lovely Willow Crossley. Since then, they’ve expanded their curriculum to include numerous interior design and styling courses, gardening and cooking classes, as well as arts and crafts – my favorite. If you love audiobooks and podcasts, this is, in many ways, an even better learning opportunity because you get to watch experts do the vey thing you’d like to get better at. In addition, each course comes with a free lesson you can sample before making up your mind, which I found very useful. (Bellow is a link to such a free sample taken from Rita Konig’s fantastic class – The Ultimate Guide to Interior Design.)

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Create Academy | How to Create Timeless Interiors, by Alidad

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If you, like me, can’t have enough of Create Academy and their wonderful course offerings, then today’s review will hopefully inspire you to check out what I think is one of their best classes on traditional interior design – How to Create Timeless Interiors – taught by the legendary Persian-British decorator Alidad. The promise: a home that will outlast trends and that will be just as beautiful, with minimal tweaks, twenty years from now. And isn’t that what we all want?

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Create Academy | A Guide to Pigments, Paints & Palettes by Edward Bulmer

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Edward Bulmer ’s Create Academy class, A Guide to Pigments, Paints & Palettes, is for many of us a heaven-sent opportunity. Color is one of the most elusive aspects of interior decoration and getting it “wrong” can be an expensive mistake. So, if you’ve ever been faced with the daunting task of choosing “the right” paint color for a room in your home, then you, too, can appreciate the value of lessons on color coming from someone who not only practices the art of interior decoration, but comes at it with a deep understanding of pigments and the discerning  knowledge of what makes certain paint colors better (and more appropriate) than others. 

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