WHERE’S SUSAN
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SPEAKER SERVICES |
Vancouver Area
Susan is teaching a number of decorating classes.
Check out Classes to see what’s being offered this winter and spring
Out of Town Engagements
Watch for changes or additions to below. There are some other events in the making right now and we’ll keep you informed. If you haven’t signed up for our informative newsletters, you’ll want to right now. Contact Us
About the Sewing and Craft and Decor Shows: Sometimes I feel a bit like a fish out of water as sewing skills (other than a straight stitch) are not needed to make décor projects. However, all these shows have a décor component (if you’re a sewer you’re definitely going to make your own décor projects!) If you’re not a sewer, you’d enjoy the creativity that marks these shows!
If you have any problems with getting information on the websites, please contact susan@thedecoratingcoach.com
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Jan 28 & 30 |
Window Coverings Seminar |
New Westminster Continuing Ed
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February 5 |
Staging Seminar: “Imagine Your Home Redesigned” |
Delta Continuing Ed
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Feb 6
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Staging Seminar |
Fraser Valley Real Estate Board
(open to realtors) |
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Feb 13 |
Staging Seminar “Imagine Your Home Redesigned” |
New Westminster Continuing Ed
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Feb 27 – Mar 1 |
Sewing & Stitchery Expo |
www.sewexpo.com
Pre-register NOW to ensure a seat |
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March 13 – 15 Edmonton, AB |
Edmonton Stitches & Crafting Alive |
www.canwestshows.com
attend free classes, no pre-registration |
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March 27 – 29 Victoria, BC |
Victoria |
www.sewingandcraftsshow.com
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| April 2 |
Make Upholstered Headboards “Romancing the Room” |
Delta Continuing Ed
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| April 3 - 5 |
Abbotsford Pre-register to ensure a seat |
www.sewingandcraftsshow.com
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| April 18 | Camrose Regional Exhibition Celebrating Women’s Conference |
Camrose, AB
Jennifer Flip, jfilip@cre.ab.ca |
| April 25-27 | Women’s Retreat |
Kamloops, B.C.
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Descriptions of Presentations
Go to the Websites listed above for information on registering. It’s best to register ahead of time to ensure a spot
Puyllup, WA Sewing & Stitchery Expo
Quilt & Sew Your Way to a Beautiful Home
Give your passions a whole new outlet, and create gorgeous decor at the same time! You’ll learn how to copy trends from America’s top interior decorators and techniques to make: a full length, banded drapery, button-trimmed headboard, a pleated cornice valance, and envelope-style pillow. With stunning samples of both “Sew Only” OR “Quilt & Sew” versions, you’ll discover options to accent quilts by incorporating the look into home accessories. Great gift-giving ideas as well.
Edmonton: Creative Stitching & Crafting Alive
Victoria: Sewing & Crafts Show
Abbotsford: Sewing & Crafts Show
Home Makeover: Spa Luxury at Home
Transform any drab bathroom into a luxury retreat by styling it with personal details. Learn techniques used by decorators to create a bathroom oasis: make the room look bigger, newer, more calming, and even a tad decadent! Plus, get an overview of how to make your own bath salts, fizzies and aromatherapy oils. Whether for your own pleasure, or for gift giving ideas, bath time will take on a whole new meaning!
If a decorator came to your home, what could your bathroom look like?
Home Makeover: Stage Your Home for Personal Pleasure, Re-sale, or Home-based Business
Taste can be acquired, style can be learned, that’s the philosophy professional re-designer and home stager, Susan Wells ISP brings to her exciting new seminar. Find out the best ideas from her latest training and accreditation in staging to help you transform what you have to get the house you’ve always dreamed of: TEN ways to streamline your home, De-clutter and layout your pictures and furniture just the way professionals do. Accent with “Perfect Pillows”, you learn to copy and sew the looks that sell for hundreds of dollars.
If a decorator came to your home, what could it look like?
Home Makeover: Simply Sensational Slipcovers
Love the look but you’re too scared try the hottest look in home décor? Get an overview of how to cover any shape couch or armchair, and find out it’s easier than you think. Learn Susan’s technique for making a slipcover that is impossible to fail, with your very first project looking professional quality! For piping or any time you need a bias strip of fabric: a technique to quickly make one 36 yard length of bias strip using only 1 yard of fabric that you’ll use for piping on any decorating project – quilters love it too!
If a decorator came to your home what could your chairs look like?
Home Makeover: Show Homes’ Hottest Window Coverings
Seen in the Parade of Homes, learn how to make the two most featured draperies this season. Add class and panache with the full length grommet drapery (perfect for replacing tired old verticals, perfect for any window covering that needs to open and close). The Mock Roman Shade looks smashing alone or over blinds: get the look of a Roman Shade without the work or time! Susan will again share trade secrets from professional workrooms that they’ll never tell you outside the industry!
If a decorator came to your home what could your windows look like?
Camrose: Celebrating Women’s Conference
Diva Decorating . . . for Cheap but Classy Chics
You married beneath your taste? Got more ideas than money, more projects than time? Discover HGTV’s favourite projects that are quick and easy as 1 - 2 – 3: How to make the hottest window coverings seen in show homes and, please, please, replace those tired verticals! Also, dreamy upholstered headboards from no-sew to quick-sew that you can make in an evening, and secrets to easily to create a Spa bathroom look! If you can’t create, learn to re-create the finest in upscale décor!