If you live in Brighton and you need any furniture made click here. I undertake most carpentry and joinery but specialise in bespoke furniture.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Not in Brighton.. and not Furniture
Although I like to concentrate on making furniture around Brighton, for this job I travelled a long way from Brighton... The Isle of Man!! We left Brighton at 4am to get up there in time to get the ferry from Liverpool. It was tiring but a real adventure and the staircase we fitted was quite special. Whilst up there the client was so impressed with our work he logged on to the Brighton Furniture blog and ordered some oak furniture to go in the room that we were working in! Successful weekend all in all!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Lights, Camera, Action...err, Oh Crap I Forgot My Line!
It was just a typical day yesterday...get up, take a shower (yep, you heard me...I took a shower), take kids to school, cut some wood, be filmed by a production team, SAY WHAT?!
A production team came to my house and my good friend Oonagh's house (owns her own preschool) to film us being our always perfect, never boring, always well-groomed selves for a show that will focus on what life is like when you work from home and have kids running about. But not just that. We're hoping to help other women or moms who are trying to figure out how they can make money and yet have more time/flexibility with their kids (or future kids). It's tough...I know. I went from being a full-time out-of the-house, climbing-the-ladder working mom who worked long hours and her kids were in daycare from 8:30-6:00pm to a broke stay-at-home mom longing for a bit of my old,creative, money-making life, to a part-time freelancing mom with a kid on my lap while I designed marketing materials, to a full-time nanny working from home taking care of other people's kids to now a full-time work-from-home mom with a growing business. Kinda feel like I could be the only guest on Oprah's stay-at-home mom vs. working mom show where I yell back and forth at myself whilst taking sides. Now THAT would be something, huh?
Anyhow, this is something that evolved from the LA Times article and may or may not happen but I'll keep you posted. But really, who doesn't want to see a mom who never showers, wears the same clothes day in and day out, cuts wood, and polyurethane's during American Idol? I mean, really! What's that? We're cancelled already?!?! Crap...back to the garage I go.
A production team came to my house and my good friend Oonagh's house (owns her own preschool) to film us being our always perfect, never boring, always well-groomed selves for a show that will focus on what life is like when you work from home and have kids running about. But not just that. We're hoping to help other women or moms who are trying to figure out how they can make money and yet have more time/flexibility with their kids (or future kids). It's tough...I know. I went from being a full-time out-of the-house, climbing-the-ladder working mom who worked long hours and her kids were in daycare from 8:30-6:00pm to a broke stay-at-home mom longing for a bit of my old,creative, money-making life, to a part-time freelancing mom with a kid on my lap while I designed marketing materials, to a full-time nanny working from home taking care of other people's kids to now a full-time work-from-home mom with a growing business. Kinda feel like I could be the only guest on Oprah's stay-at-home mom vs. working mom show where I yell back and forth at myself whilst taking sides. Now THAT would be something, huh?
Anyhow, this is something that evolved from the LA Times article and may or may not happen but I'll keep you posted. But really, who doesn't want to see a mom who never showers, wears the same clothes day in and day out, cuts wood, and polyurethane's during American Idol? I mean, really! What's that? We're cancelled already?!?! Crap...back to the garage I go.
Sproutstyle Article
Check out this great site! Dee finds the cutest stuff...including some of my toy boxes.
http://sproutstyle.blogspot.com/2009/02/mod-mom-furniture.html
http://sproutstyle.blogspot.com/2009/02/mod-mom-furniture.html
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Brighton Furniture
Don't forget! You can view the full portfolio of furniture and lots of other stuff by visiting the Blue Sky Brighton Carpenters website... just click here!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
There's a chair for everybody...this chair.
Momentoitalia has never appreciated and promoted a product like this one before. A best selling piece from our collection which we can easily mark as "evergreen". There is no person who doesn't appreciate the beauty, the details and the luxurious materials used for these products.
This a collection of modern luxury seating furniture composed of chairs, armchairs, loveseats and stools made of a high quality thick leather sewed together in two thick layerings which extend from top to bottom.
30 Different colors are available to match your dining room furniture area or your living room, and you can be sure to find your tone color between the modern shades which the manufacturere carefully selected.
Made in Italy, in the Milan area the leather comes from Tuscany region, famous for the leather suppliers, and then design makes its steps into creating such versatile and classy products.
This collection is all about beautiful details: modern leather chairs and armchairs fully covered in leather, with visble stichings which you can take in matching or contrasting color. The chairs have pretty comfortable seating and although leather may let you think about stiffness, this chairs collection can guarantee a great comfort.
Momentoitalia is your virtual boutique of modern Italian furniture. Browse our website to find out more about modern italian bedroom furniture, modern living room furniture, luxury modern leather furniture, accessories and much more
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Modern Tots Belly Up?
So the word on the street is that one of my retailers, Modern Tots, is now out of business. No notice. No warning. No nothing. In fact, no check made out to Mod Mom Furniture for the last order I just sent their client. That stinks. Now I won't be able to afford more of those glue-on fake toe nails. Oh, who am I kidding, I can always afford those!!
