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RELOVED Loves upholstery
May’s Reloved magazine features our Upholster a Footstool workshop. Learn moreReview: LAMPSHADE MAKING
From time to time we ask our learners to review our workshops. Read Sharon Colback’s critique of Lampshade Making. Ok, let’s confess here. Handiwork and me, to put it kindly, are not natural bedfellows. Gardening, scrubbing the kitchen floor, making frocks (I am of the generation that calls a... Learn moreReview: Linen Tassels
From time to time we ask our learners to review our workshops. Read Lucy Wadley’s critique of Linen Tassel Making. Like many people, I had not really considered how tassels were made by hand until I enrolled on the two day tassel workshop at The Good Life Centre. I’ve been... Learn moreReview: Basket Making
From time to time we ask our learners to review our workshops. Read Georgina Dawkins critique of Basket Making. As I left the house on Saturday morning my other half said to me “So will you be coming home with a basket made of reeds then?” Not being a naturally... Learn moreReview: Upholster a Deep Buttoned Footstool
From time to time we ask our learners to review our workshops. Lucy wanted to know how to reupholster a stool with buttons and our ‘upholster a deep buttoned footstool’ workshop was perfect for her. As well as learning about choosing the right fabric to cover a footstool and... Learn moreBBC London 94.9 Jo Good – Sawing Wood
Jo learns how to saw a piece of wood with Alison. Doesn’t Jo have the loveliest smiley face. She should be on TV not just Radio! Learn moreHOMES & ANTIQUES Features Our Furniture Painting Workshop
February’s Homes & Antiques features our Furniture Painting Techniques workshop in their listing of 101 courses to try in 2013. Learn moreNew Creative Workshops in Waterloo for 2013
New Courses in Traditional Crafts: Antique Furniture Restoration, Passementerie, Woodcarving ‘In the Round’, Furniture Caning, Basketry and Deep Button Upholstery The Goodlife Centre in Waterloo today announced some brand new workshops for 2013, building on their popular niche of home maintenance and high-end decorative arts classes. Courses in Antique... Learn moreTIME OUT’S Top Ten New Year’s Resolutions
Did you make a New Year’s Resolution yet? Have you broken it already? Here’s Time Out’s top ten – many of which are much easier to keep than you might think. Oh, and The Goodlife Centre is number 8. Isn’t that a lucky number? Learn moreBBC London 94.9 Jo Good – Fixing a Tap
Alison teaches Jo Good how to change a tap and chats with Mal from 1010 about fixing stuff instead of throwing it away. Learn more
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