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Sew Much More

Ceil DiGuglielmo

An interview style podcast with people in the Custom Home Furnishings industry.

arts design

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352 - Michele Fugazy - Networking is Everything

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2023/03/12

Michele Fugazy is the owner of a to the trade soft furnishings and hard treatment window coverings company in Fairfield County CT since 2000. Prior to this, Michele worked for 12 years as a fashion industry executive designing & selling accessories in NYC, making biannual trips to Europe, India, & Japan working on product development and fabrication. Her garment center experience provided the foundation for owning her own business. Michele Fugazy Designs for the Home Michele is on Instagram Links

01:14:27

351 - Listener Favorite - Jean Lawes and Cindi Gray -...

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2023/03/05

Jean Lawes is the owner of HomeStyle Workroom, LLC, a Custom Workroom to the Trade, located in Jarrettsville, Maryland. With an extensive background in Sewing and Design, Jean is thrilled to be working with outstanding Interior Designers in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Thanks to Jeanelle Dech’s marvelous “Real Workroom” series, she met her “partner in crime,” Cindi Gray, owner of Manor Decorative Services. Fabricating, and collaborating together (two business ventures working in a

01:00:15

350 - Polly Waite - We Are All Winging it a Bit!

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2023/02/26

Polly Waite is a classically trained and qualified upholsterer and furniture restorer. She is a member of the Association of Master Upholsterers and Soft Furnishing and has been working professionally in the industry for over 12 years in her business, Pollyander. Polly comes from a background in design and a family history in antiques. Since the training, she has been using her trained eye to turn tired old chairs into one-of-a-kind, coveted pieces. There have been many creative and challenging

01:11:44

349 - OT Series with Harmony Maraldo and the National...

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2023/02/19

Harmony Maraldo is an upholsterer, a pricing strategist, and the current president of the National Upholstery Association. By day, she works as the Head of Pricing & Packaging for a tech company in Boston. On nights and weekends, she runs a small traditional upholstery business, Tack & Tuft while also juggling the demanding needs of directing a non-profit. Harmony believes that demand for reupholstery services will continue to rise as consumers increasingly choose sustainability over convenience

01:18:43

348 - Kelli Vitari - Money Will Come Back to You,...

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2023/02/12

Kelli Vitari is an award-winning owner of the window treatment store and drapery and upholstery workroom, Wild Fern Window Furnishings, in Olympia, WA. She has been fabricating for the industry for the past 18 years in various workrooms across the country and has been sewing since the age of 8. Her educational background ranges from architectural engineering and interior and commercial design to biology and medicine. She lives in Olympia, WA with her husband and business partner, Willie, 3 yr old

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347 - Denise Korynta - I Said Yes to Some Pretty...

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2023/02/05

Denise Korynta, of Smith Mountain Lake, VA, created her slipcover business, Details by Denise when the need arose to find a job that would give her the flexibility to work around her husband’s schedule, spend more time at their lake house, and with their 6 grandchildren. It was the perfect option that combined her love of decorating, sewing, fabric, working with people, and problem-solving. It quickly evolved into cushions, pillows, and other home decorating accents. It’s taken 40 years, 8 duty

01:16:44

346 - Audrey Campbell - I Love to Learn New Stuff!

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2023/01/29

Audrey Campbell is the owner of Boxwood & Ivy, a drapery workroom located in Cincinnati, OH, servicing both retail and to-the-trade clients. She credits her start in the industry to her creative mother who loved to redecorate and was never afraid of a good DIY project. In 2015 Audrey purchased a used industrial straight stitch machine on a whim while making items for her own home and a seed was planted in her mind. She began researching the custom workroom industry and spent the next 2 years slowly

01:08:15

345 - OT Series - Rosemarie Garner - On Moving Her...

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2023/01/22

Rosemarie Garner comes by her sewing passion naturally. Her maternal grandparents were a seamstress and a tailor, and her mother taught her how to sew when she was in junior high school. Fast forward many years later, R Garner Custom Designs was born on the third floor of her Montclair, NJ home, where she worked for 12 years. Five years ago, she moved to a glorious 900-square-foot industrial space in Butler, NJ where there is finally space to have two tables, all four of her industrial sewing

01:13:58

344 - Listener Favorite - Michelle Minner

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2023/01/15

Michelle Minner is the owner of Blue Roof Cabin Upholstery, located in Washington state. She’s a solopreneur, specializing in residential furniture reupholstery. Michelle fell into the upholstery trade by accident. As a DIY blogger looking for a project she decided to try her hand at reupholstering an old chair and fell in love with the transformation process. Self-taught, Michelle is passionate about sharing knowledge and supporting fellow upholsterers. She loves to share upholstery tips on

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343 - Lisa Jones - I Think of Myself as an Artist

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2023/01/08

Lisa Jones, is the owner, designer, and fabricator of Lisa Jones Interiors. She has been sewing all of her life. Her mother, LuAnn, taught her to sew when she was a little girl, and Lisa made a lot of her clothes, prom dresses, and her wedding gown. Lisa started her first sewing business a few years after high school and made clothes, prom dresses, a lot of cheerleading outfits, and even costumes for the drama department at the local college. After a few years of doing that, she decided to focus

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342 - Happy New Year 2023!

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2023/01/01

Links and Resources; Some of the links I provide, specifically to Amazon and a few others, require me to let you know that if you use those links and make a purchase, I will make some money. I won't make a million dollars, but I might be able to get a cup of coffee, so thank you! Atomic Habits by James Clear Gretchen Rubin's Tendencies Quiz

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341 - 2022 Year End Wrap Up With Michele Wiliams

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2022/12/25

I was so happy to continue the tradition of a year-end wrap-up with Michele Williams. Links and Resources; (Some of the links I provide are affiliate links and if you use those links and make a purchase, I will make some money. I won't make a million dollars, but I might be able to get a cup of coffee, so thank you!) Custom Workroom Conference Learn To Choose Window Coverings Metrique Solutions 30 Minutes with Workroom Tech - 69 - Getting Back to Work After CWC Books; The 4 Disciplines of

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340 -Sheri Corey and Sassy Slipcovers

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2022/12/18

Sheri has been in the workroom business for the past 28 years, full-time. She had started it before retiring from her nursing career, by working on it nights and weekends. The business has evolved through many iterations. This business began making children's appliquéd clothing and has changed a lot! The present business model is now a mobile slipcover business, called Sassy Slipcovers. This was dreamt up years ago when Sheri would carry so many machines to beach and lake homes. When she lost her

01:11:31

339 - Gabriela McCormick - Something Told Me Don't...

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2022/12/11

Gabriela McCormick, owner of Great Oak Interiors. A full-service custom window treatment workroom, offering fabrication, installation, and design service to retail customers as well as to the trade. Located in Peru, NY in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate NY. Started very slowly while raising a 4-year-old and twins then one day everything started to fall into place very very quickly! You can find Gabriela on Facebook and Instagram. Links and Resources; The Custom Workroom Conference Ann

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338 - Carrie Duso - I Had A Workroom Ready to Go, So...

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2022/12/04

Carrie Duso is the owner of CMD Interiors, a one-person retail drapery, and design studio in Mason, Michigan. She began sewing window treatments in 1997 at the Window Design Studio in Ann Arbor MI where she worked before returning to the Lansing area to study interior design at MSU. In 2000, she established her own part-time workroom, M.Atelier. Carrie is currently re-establishing her part-time workroom into a full-time business where her life-long love of sewing, making, and interior design are

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337 - Setting Boundaries

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2022/11/27

The Sew Much More Podcast is sponsored by; The Workroom Channel Scarlet Thread Consulting The WCAA The Curtains and Soft Furnishings Resource Library Merril Y Landis, LTD Angel's Distributing, LLC National Upholstery Association

01:07:14

336 - Riana LeJeune and Alex Cottington - If You Can...

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2022/11/20

Riana LeJeune-Copeland is the owner and creative Mastermind of Repinned LLC. Riana was born in 1982 and was raised by an emergency medical pilot father and a historic restoration expert mother. Having grown up in historic homes, she had a deep appreciation for antiques and great craftsmanship. Riana moved to Des Moines with her family in 1996, attending Callanan and then Graduating from Roosevelt in 2000. After high school, Riana studied Psychology with minors in Criminal justice and anthropology

01:13:10

335 - Listener Favorite - Shasta Breitkopf

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2022/11/13

Shasta Breitkopf has been part of the Window coverings industry for quite some time and I was so happy to be able to hear more about her story! Shasta has worked for various companies and also as an independent representative of some of those companies. Her company, Unique Expressions was developed to assist workrooms with products that help with productivity as well as fabrication. Links and Resources; ( I do occasionally use affiliate links for Amazon and can earn some money if you choose to use

01:06:24

334 - Listener Favorite - Heather McGrew

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2022/11/06

Heather McGrew is the owner of Drapery Décor. She started her business in 2010 after working and gaining knowledge/experience of this industry in a workroom in Chicago. Heather is a workroom dedicated to providing custom window treatments. Links and Resources; Snapseed Whitagram Pinterest Fiver Tiktok Inshot Books; (I do use some affiliate links here, so if you choose to use them, I appreciate it!) E Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki What Your CPA

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333 - What is Your Customer Service?

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2022/10/30

(Some of the links I provide, specifically to Amazon and a few others, require me to let you know that if you use those links and make a purchase, I will make some money. I won't make a million dollars, but I might be able to get a cup of coffee, so thank you!) Simon Sinek's Podcast - A Little Optimism - Unreasonable Hospitality with Will Guidara Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hildenbrand

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