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The Hopvine Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Special Events Through Saturday

September 30th, 2015 · No Comments · Events, Washington Breweries

I’m a little late to get this press release up, but it is not too late to join The Hopvine in celebrating 20 great years on Capitol Hill. Owner Bob Brenlin is an advocate for quality beer, and The Hopvine is one of Seattle’s original “beer bars”. They are celebrating with events this entire week, including the release of some special beers brewed just for the Hopvine’s anniversary. See the press release below for full details and a full list of special release beers.

Cheers to Bob and the rest of the crew at Hopvine!

Press Release:
The Hopvine is celebrating 20 years on 15th Ave East serving the best in craft beer combined with comforting food and a pub setting that welcomes its neighbors. The focus is on the best in craft beer and we take pride in working with many of our brewer friends to showcase their products in the best possible way. We only have 12 taps ensuring quick pour through and constant freshness. A short draw from keg to tap and weekly tap and line cleaning also make for the best beer experience. Over the years we have introduced many new beers to our friends on 15th E and before it was common. Our beer list for 20 years has been hop forward, adventuresome and always fresh. We have encouraged our customers to meet the brewers behind the beers and have introduced amazing beers and the people that make them in our Brewer Night series.

Along with the beer we have become known for our chef-inspired soups and comfort food. Chef Congdon has been creating food to deliciously pair with craft beer in a kitchen that is incredibly small but not creatively limiting. We wouldn’t be the pub we are without the amazing people who bring the beer and food to life at the Hopvine. The Hopvine has an amazing crew. They are beer and world knowledgeable and deliver the ultimate pub experience.

We have a series of events that highlight what we have done over the years. You are invited to enjoy what we think will be a fantastic week. There will be at least 20 unique and wonderful beers released throughout the week from our brewer friends. There will be anniversary beers brewed specially for us and cellared beers that we guarantee will blow your mind.

Monday September 28th 6pm Naked City Cask Night .
The Hopvine is known for their Monday cask night. This anniversary cask night is even more special with casks from Naked City Brewing. A collaboration cask with Flying Bike Cooperative and a special cask from Bigtime. The beer will be fantastic.

Tuesday September 29th 7pm Two Beers Brewing Hopvine Anniversary Beer Release & Beer Bingo
Join us as we release the Hopquinox Two Beers beer made for the Hopvine. Special bingo from the bingo masters and something special from the kitchen.

Wednesday September 30th 8pm Anniversary Open Mic Sponsored by Black Raven
We celebrate one of the Oldest Open Mics in the city. Some of our all-star players will perform and Black Raven will bring something special for the night. We will release our own Zach’s beer as well.

Thursday October 1st 7pm Stoup Brewing Hopvine Beer Release. Foggy Noggin Beer Release.
Two of our favorite brewers release beers for the Hopvine. An amazing IPA from Stoup. Foggy Noggin releases their all Washington ingredient Beer.

Friday October 2nd 9pm. Anacortes Karaoke
We bring our ever popular Halloween Karaoke to our anniversary week. One of our oldest Brewer friends sponsors the event with special beer.

Saturday October 3rd 8pm Anniversary Week Finale with Schooner Exact Brewing and the Lonely Mountain Lovers Band.
We conclude our week with a barbecue and live music. Schooner Exact will provide beer. Ribs on the Barbecue and acoustic music on stage.

Here is the full list of special beer releases for the week:

Monday  September 28th
Cask Beers
Naked City Beyond the Pale Citra Dryhopped 1
Flying Bike Cooperative Naked City Collaboration Brewmance Series 2.
 Note: First in the collaboration brewmance between Naked City and the
    Flying Bike Cooperative
Bigtime Pumpkin cask 3
Noli Refresh Lacto Tart Pale 4
Pacific Brewing and Malting  Grapefruit Citra Pale 5.  Note: Grapefruit essence added to a citra
   based pale
Tuesday  September 29th
 Two Beers Hoparillo Fresh Hop Hopvine Anniversary  6
New Belgium  Felix Blackberry Love 7.
Chainline Black Swan CDA 8.
Holy Mountain Fresh Hop Pale 9
Holy Mountain Ox Brett aged in whiskey barrels 10.
Wednesday September 30th
Black  Raven Great Grandfather Raven Bourbon Imp. Stout 11.
Black Raven Corvus Frambicus Raspberry Sour 12.
Rogue Creamery Imp brown  13.
Greenflash Anniversary Sour 14.
Post Doc Alpha Factor IPA aged in Jack Daniels Barrels 15
Zach Mertens Anniversay Red “we will be releasing a special, one of a kind keg brewed by our
  very own beertender, Zach!”    16
Thursday October 1
Stoup Anniversay IPA Brewed for the Hopvine  17
Foggy Noggin All Washington Malt Anniversary Pale  18
Boundary Bay 20th Anniversary Fresh Hop IPA 19
Reubens Pumpkin Spice 20.  pint 6
Friday  October 2
Anacortes Broken Link Saison Sour 21
Cask Firkin IPA 22
Saturday  October 3
Hopvine Schooner Exact IPA  22
Schooner Exact Boxcar Hopper Barrel Aged Strong Ale 23.
Wander special Bourbon Aged Baltic Poter 24.

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Benjamin Haynes: Thank you all joining us for this briefing. We’re joined today by the director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease, Dr. Nancy Messonnier.  At this time Ii will turn the call over.

Dr. Nancy Messonnier: Good afternoon, thank you for joining us today.  Since I last briefed you, there has been one new case of COVID-19 detected through the U.S. public health system. As has been widely reported, at this time we don’t know how or where this person became infected. This brings the number of confirmed cases of person-to-person spread in the United States to 3.

We also have confirmed 2 more people who have tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19 among U.S. citizens repatriated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship. That brings the total number of people with COVID-19 to 44 among this group of people.

I’d like to share with you some additional information about the U.S. case CDC confirmed on Wednesday. CDC officials first heard from public health colleagues in California about this patient last Sunday, February 23rd. California reported a severely ill person who had not recently traveled abroad or had contact with a known case of COVID-19.  CDC recommended testing for COVID-19 that day. We received samples on February 25th and confirmed the results with public health officials in California the day they were finalized, on February 26th. As I said, the patient’s exposure is unknown.  It’s possible this could be the first instance of community spread – meaning the illness was acquired through an unknown exposure in the community. It’s also possible, however, that a thorough investigation may show that the patient had exposure through contact to a returned traveler who was infected.

CDC has sent a team to support the California Department of Health and the local health departments in investigating this case.  We are working hard to find and identify how the patient was exposed as well as tracing back people who were exposed or might have been exposed to this patient.  Like you, we are thinking about the wellbeing of this patient, this family, and this community. People who were exposed to this person during their infection are at some level of risk depending on their exposure. Based on what we know about how this virus behaves, we expect that we will find additional people who have had contact with this patient, especially those who have had close, prolonged contact. This of course includes family members and potentially among healthcare workers who cared for the patient.

There has been some confusion about whether this person met CDC’s criteria for testing of COVID-19.

Let me comment briefly on how we have set our PUI criteria, which has been evolving as all of our guidance has to meet the needs of this rapidly evolving situation. You can look for these updates online at

CDC’s definition of a person under investigation, or PUI, from the beginning has been broad, for travelers especially, because this was a disease that was being introduced from another part of the world. We have been looking for people with fever, cough, or trouble breathing. Fever and cough are pretty broad parameters, especially during flu season, and we’ve had to rule out many people who had other respiratory illnesses.  At this point in our investigation, we are most focused on symptomatic people who are closely linked to confirmed cases or had travel history. But our criteria also allows for clinical discretion.

As public health professionals, we know that there is no substitute for the astute clinician on the frontlines of patient care. Our clinical team working with state and local health departments to assess PUIs has not said no to any request for testing.

So, on the topic of PUIs, I want to say that as we’ve been watching the increased spread of this virus across the world, we have been working with our partners on an updated PUI definition. That was posted online yesterday. The updated PUI definition takes into account the new geographic spread of the virus and includes a list of affected areas with widespread or sustained community spread. This list is dynamic and will change as our travel guidance is revised. I would now like to share an update on our progress to get all state and local public health labs the capacity to test for this virus. That is CDC’s role in testing for this illness. As I’ve said before, this has not gone as smoothly as we would have liked.

We have been working simultaneously on a couple of possible solutions and I’m happy to say today that both have delivered.

Right now, labs can start testing with existing CDC test kits. States that were able to validate their kits should continue to test in this manner. States that were able to validate only the two components specific to novel coronavirus can test using only these two using revised instructions developed at CDC. We have established that the third component, which was the cause of the inconclusive results, can be excluded from testing without affecting accuracy. We have been working with FDA and they agree with our approach. While we’re working to amend the existing EUA, we have discretionary authority from FDA to proceed in this manner. This will increase testing capacity at state and local health departments. All positive test results will continue to be confirmed by CDC for some time.

Additionally, CDC has manufactured brand new test kits that will only include the two components that are specific to novel coronavirus.  Those test kits are at the International Reagent Resource, where orders can be placed. We are working as quickly as we can to get CDC test kits to state and local public health authorities. However, during any infectious disease response there is a great need for test manufacturers to rapidly make testing available in clinics, in hospitals, and at the bedside.  This is part of a huge effort within the US government led by HHS.

States will now start testing for this virus. You may start hearing from states directly. As always, their case counts will be the most up-to-date. CDC will continue to report case counts on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Our priority continues to be getting accurate diagnostic capacity—and doing so quickly—because we know public health surveillance is critical to our fight against this novel coronavirus. To date, our strategies have been largely successful.  As a result, we have very few cases in the United States.  And while we may be confronting the first instance of community spread, we are working very hard with our state and local public health partners to find out more.

I want to recognize that people are concerned about this situation. We appreciate that Americans are taking this threat seriously and continuing to seek information about how to be prepared. As always, President Trump’s and our number one priority is the health and safety of the American people. Our mission includes providing you with clear information that allows you to make decisions about how best to protect yourself and your family.

While the immediate risk to the general American public remains low, and the U.S. government is doing everything we can to keep it low. CDC is constantly monitoring what is happening abroad. Our guidelines and advice are likely to be interim and subject to change as we learn more. We will continue to keep you updated.

I would be happy to take questions now.

Haynes: We’re ready to open up for questions.

Operator: If you would like to ask a question please press star 1. Record your name, if you would like to withdraw your question, press star 2. Please wait a moment while we way for questions to queue. Our first question comes from Helen Branswell, your line is now open.

Helen Branswell: Now that test kits — state and local labs can test more broadly, how soon will you be able to get the surveillance project that you were talking about earlier with the six cities up and running?

Dr. Messonnier: Thank you for that question.  It is increasingly important to be able to do not just surveillance focused on the PUIs, but broader community level surveillance.  And we’re moving rapidly to go from those six sights to national surveillance.  We expect the first site to do testing by next week and we hope to be able to rapidly move from six to all 50 states.  This is part of a layered approach with that first component that you’re talking about but multiple other systems that we’re modifying.  we can modify them to be able to also test for this coronavirus.

Haynes: Next question, please.

Operator: Our next question comes from Rob Stein at NPR.

Rob Stein: Could you be a little more specific on the testing? How many states are testing now? How many states do you think will be testing let’s say next week, and sort of what is the timeline that you’re projecting for that?

Dr. Messonnier: I’m not going to give a specific number because throughout the day today we expect additional states to stand up and we expect that to be happening for the next week. Our goal is to have every state and local health department online doing their own testing by the end of next weekend and doing everything we can to continue that.

Haynes: Next question, please?

Operator: Our next question comes from Elizabeth Cohen at CNN, your line is open.

Elizabeth Cohen: Thank you for taking my question. When the CDC and the local state departments have been doing contact tracing, are they tracing contacts while they were symptomatic, or only while they were asymptomatic but presumably infected? And has that been the system the entire time or is that a new policy or was that the old policy?

Dr. Messonnier: Because there have been such a small number of cases in the United States, CDC has  been able to supplement the activities of the state and local health departments, to be very aggressive in our contact tracing, that is true from the first case and it remains true now.  We have been broad in terms of our evaluations of the potential contacts of cases, and I remind you that so far before this most recent case all but two of our cases were travelers, and the two cases we had that were person to person spread were quite close contacts of cases, they were spouses. While we have been aggressive and broad where we have found those cases were actually in very close contacts.

Reporter Issam Ahmed at AFP: Hi, thank you for this.  About what you were saying about the California patient, it seems to be at odds with what Representative Berra (?) said in Congress yesterday, he said the patient was brought in on the 19th of February, and it wasn’t until five days – and doctors immediately asked for a test, and it wasn’t until Sunday the 23rd that federal authorities agreed to do that test.  I was wondering if you could speak to that? And another question is that given the US situation with its public health system with 27.5 million people uninsured, do you think that this could be a problem if it takes root in this community and spread and people will be reluctant to approach their health care providers because of the cost involved?  Thank you.

Dr. Messonnier: According to CDC records, the first call we got about this patient was on Sunday, February 23rd.  The second question is we need to remember that right now the case count in the United States is really low and that is a reflection of the aggressive containment efforts of the US government. There is certainly the possibility of additional cases. We will continue to work aggressively to try to keep that number low. The spread we hope will be limited, and any disease in the U.S. will be mild, our focus on public health is on those issues.

Haynes: Next question, please?

Operator: Our next question comes from Craig at KNX CBS. Your line is now open.

Reporter: You talk about the case count being low, how do we reconcile that with the fact that here in California the most populous state, the governor yesterday said only a couple hundred testing kits.  The case count will be low because it sounds like there is not enough tests that could reflect it.  It seems like the issue the math on that seems to be a low count.

Dr. Messonnier: Yes, thank you for the opportunity to talk about that. We need to remember that this situation is taken place rapidly.  By far the majority of cases have been in California.  A few weeks ago we found an increase in cases around the world.  And again this week we have seen an increase in cases globally.  Because of the aggressive U.S. efforts at our border strategy the number of cases have been low.  And we have been able to focus our efforts on travelers and their close contact based on our evaluation of who is at highest risk.  We will continue to modify our approach.  In terms of diagnostic testing, additional labs are coming on-line and additional test kits are on their way now.

Operator: Our next question comes from Michelle Cortez, at Bloomberg News, your line is now open.

Michelle Cortez: I think what a lot of us are grappling with a little bit is the idea that China has been able to do tens of thousands of tests. Korea has been able to do thousands of tests. And here in the US,  in our local we have done about 500 in our local patients and then plus another 2,000 patients or so that have been repatriated — we just don’t have the numbers they do.  Can you explain that to us how others aer able to do thousands and thousands of tests, that we have not been able to do that yet?

Dr. Messonnier: I think there are two answers to that question. One is that the epidemiological situation in China and other countries is really different from the U.S. We acted incredibly quickly before most other countries. Aggressively controlled our borders and we were able to slow the spread into the United States.  That was an intentional US strategy with the goal of allowing us to control our efforts, so we have focused surveillance for those at highest risk. And again, that is why the number of patients that were identified as PUIs in the US has been smaller. I guess i would also direct you back, the CDC role was in rapidly developing a diagnostic and focusing on the front line on getting that out to the public.  But our solution, a larger part of the any such infectious disease is getting the test kit out more broadly to the hospitals, and to the HHS and to the front lines, and that is part of a U.S. government strategy that is a huge priority with HHS leadership right now.  CDC has always had the capacity to test from the time rapidly when the sequence was available and that is two labs at the CDC doing the testing, and we have been testing aggressively the patients that state health departments have referred to us.

Reporter Mike Stobbe, AP: Hi, thank you for taking my call.  You mentioned is there are two new cases from the Diamond Princess, can you tell us about them and where they are and can you tell us more about the testing, why was three needed in the first place and was there problems with one of the other two?  I heard reports that might have been the case. And finally in the change of the testing criteria, are there potential downsides to that?  Thank you.

Dr. Messonnier: First question, those are two additional cases among the U.S. are repatriated, that can be available on our website. In terms of three to two, please remember that our laboratories developed this test kit before there were US cases.  We developed it based on the posted genetic sequencing, and it was this test kit that allowed us, to…

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well i’m well on my way to finishing 33 blog posts by the time i turn 33…ok not so much, i’m going to have to step up my game…

so i really don’t like wasting and that goes for a lot of things, food, money, stuff…i also don’t want to ever have hoarder status though so if i can’t upcycle something, pass it along, or sell it, i donate it. of course i always try to figure out if there is something i can do with an item before just getting rid of it because i would hate to have to buy something else in the future and kick myself because i could have just used x.

of course this drives the husband crazy because he wants to get rid of stuff faster than a zit on your nose. i am learning though and along with not being wasteful i do want to keep life simple as well and sometimes that means getting rid of stuff. more on that in the next post!

anyway, here’s an upcycle that i did in about an hour! simple, cheap and awesome!

i had this sign that we used to use when we would go to bridal bazaars. it wasn’t cheap but we used it for years and got our money’s worth out of it. then we changed our business name and just like that this sign became garbage.

it sat around in the closet for a few years and jared said i had to get rid of it. so thanks to pinterest and having a child, i finally thought of what i should do with this cumbersome item!

yellow/goldenrod is one of my favorite upcycle colors right now! we actually blew through a whole can with projects so i did need to buy a new can for this, but i’m sure i’ll use it all eventually 🙂

i have terrible handwriting so i used my dad’s stencils to paint the numbers and…

voila! done. just like that. i did this whole project after the baby went down for the night and hung it up in the play room. i used it on her first birthday and we’ll have this for years! from garbage to a keepsake!

do you have anything you’ve wanted to do something with but can’t think of an idea?

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Project Play Room

one of the more unique features of this house we bought was a small room we like to call the bonus room. it’s too small for a bedroom, but has a teeny tiny closet like maybe it was meant to be one. but then there were these sliding glass doors which would not be ideal for a room. when we first bought the house, we used the room for the piano and books and very few people used the room. we maybe only used the sliding glass door once because as you can see, we already have one in the living room which made that one totally unnecessary. we long ago decided we’d use the ‘bonus room’ as a play room when we had kids, and so we finally finished this project!!!

here’s the view from the living room to the giant hole after the doors were removed.

we are huge proponents of hiring professionals to do things right. we hired professionals to do our backyard a couple of years ago because we knew we can only do so much diy. so getting the door out, a window put in and walling everything back up we hired out. everything else we did ourselves 🙂

my painter man!

starting in on my magnetic chalkboard wall!

my dad helped me frame it up.

and here’s the finished (ish) product! i have a new picture going in the middle and i’m sure i’ll make some minor adjustments as time goes on, but overall, this is what we were going for!

teepee made by little braves

shelf and rug from ikea (shelf bought used, rug eventually returned because it was super cheap and bunched up and made the baby trip)

pouf from target (totally recommend!!! we love that thing)

curtains made by me and fabric from joann’s

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project nursery

well, baby kate is here! we welcomed her into the world on saturday and we are thrilled! she is so cute and parenthood is just as amazing and exhausting as everyone says. i’m so glad it finally happened for us and we pray for our friends who want the same thing to be blessed with their very own babies.

we had a really fun time working on her nursery over the months before she came. i really didn’t want to spend a whole lot of money on the nursery and wanted to make it as personal as possible. we also didn’t want to make it too girly since we were sure she’d get plenty of girly clothes!!

so we started with my old furniture from growing up! this antique dresser, the bureau that matches my old crib and a toy box my dad made me!

ditched the old knobs

used gray and white chalk paint since  we didn’t know the gender before we started and figured these were great colors to go with either!

yep, painted indoors…

then my friend dez and i worked on putting everything together! she is so good at design, check out their personal blog to see their fun projects!!

we used a bunch of scrap fabric i had lying around

and here’s the final product!!

items for decoration from here and there. found the bunny bookends at a flea market but they were too expensive for my taste, but jared surprised me for mother’s day with them 🙂 good husband!

lamp from ikea

new knobs from world market

found the rocker/glider for $40 and then had someone recover it for me. much better than buying a brand new one with an ugly cover! and i sewed the pillows…something i can do with sewing!

mobile made by my talented dad

dad also made the valence and then we covered it

the blanket was from ikea which gave us the idea for the woodland animal theme.

dez and i spent some time on this wall and she finished the kate sign for me!

found this cute greeting card at trader joe’s and put it to good use since it worked with the theme!

my dad drew this tree and people put their prints and signed it at my showers. we have it hanging over the changing table and i get to be reminded of all the people who love little kate every time i change her.

rug made by my talented friend timmery.

these cute knobs also from world market

the whole thing!

and now all my old things are hers for a new generation 🙂

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project crib repurpose

 so with decorating our baby room, i’ve been obsessed with doing as much DIY as possible, and decorating with random finds. it’s been really fun putting it all together and i’ll have a post dedicated to the room soon! but for now, just a post on my old crib 🙂

my parents saved my old crib all these years thinking it would be fun for me to use it for my kids someday. of course they never knew that there would be laws about drop-side cribs and all that so they took it out of the rafters and asked me what we should do with it. i quickly ‘pinterested’ and saw some fun ideas of what you can do with old cribs.

here are my brother and i looking super weird in the crib, crazy kis!

and hopefully my mom doesn’t kill me for putting a belly pic up but that’s me in there, so fun!!

this brings me to my dad. his love language towards others is acts of service. all you have to do is talk about a fun project and before you know it, he’s out in the garage helping you bring your idea reality. it helps that he is super creative and talented. all i did was show him a picture and he went right to work on taking apart the old crib.

my mom took some behind the scenes pics for me 🙂

so he made a cool bench out of the crib, and the other color wood was a piece of wood leftover from when we got some new shelves, he’s so resourceful!!

then it came to me and i painted it to match the other furniture in the nursery. i did chalk paint, sanded it after, and waxed it.

and to finish it off, sewed a pillow and pad (well dez mostly did the pad) to match some other things in the room. can’t wait to show you the whole room!

voila!! what do you think of my repurposed crib? great for a little reading seat?

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Upcycling #1 and Pranks

two things we’ve had a lot of fun with lately are upcycling (because i don’t like wasting) and harmless pranks! i have some fun step by step upcycling posts to share later, but for now i have some small finished projects that i did to redo a wall in our living room.

my grandma gave me a whole box of old cameras, lenses and filters etc. i had them sitting in a box for the longest time not knowing what to do with them. we did a little redecorating and wanted to do movie/camera/film sort of theme. so this is what i did with some of the lenses and filters:

and a few flashes – i wish i didn’t have to use so much glue but i couldn’t figure out how to keep them in there. they are also in an old crayon box i picked up from an antique store 🙂

and this one is a bit more personal. my grandparents had all of their 8mm home movies in a box stored away for decades. i can’t remember why i had them, but we finally digitized them and ended up with all the boxes which i couldn’t throw away. they are just so cool looking! so i made a little collage of them. the fun part about them is that we’ll be able to show our kids what our grandparents had to do in order to see their home movies!

and we also put a little montage of outdated maps together. these are all cities we’ve been to:

now for the prank. it all started when we were watching gentlemen broncos with our friends over at zelo photography. they made a time capsule and blew on a friendship stone…well it’s kind of a weird movie and you just have to watch it. aaaaanyway…so since we live about 2 miles away from each other we talked about giving each other keys so we can watch each others’ houses when we’re out of town.

so this is how they gave us our key:

we were laughing so hard, especially when we opened it and found the key on top of the friendship stone 🙂

so, we had to come up with something just as good for giving them our key. my grandma also gives me things that aren’t so useful sometimes, like these ‘old’ cameras from the 90’s. i did save them just in case and then when we were at a flea market, i thought of it!!

a camera with antlers! random i know, but i think it turned out pretty cool.

and her’s the finished product and we put the key in the film slot 🙂
and, since they happened to be out of town when we finished it, we thought it would be fun to play a little prank and sprinkle their place with army men. unfortunately i couldn’t find any army men so cowboys and indians it was 🙂

i think it fits in really well on their entry table!

oh and these picture frames below were empty so we filled them too.

now i’m really in the pranking mood, and trying to think of who and what will be next!
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Project Rocking Chair

my parents went through their attic and found some fun stuff that had been forgotten over the years. one item was my dad’s grandma’s rocking chair. he asked if i wanted it and i was excited to get it home and refurbish it! this was my first time refurbishing anything and i had no idea what i was doing [thanks internet].

i just LOVE this stained floral print, don’t you?

luckily the only part that needed upholstery was the pad, and it was removable!

i actually thought it would be easy enough to work on this in my living room so we could watch tv together while i took this thing apart. turns out, it was incredibly dirty inside, whoops!

all the nails and staples were rusted and pretty difficult to get out. once i got them all out i noticed that the top layer of material had just been placed over the original leather upholstery. the leather was completely thrashed underneath, and it was like an onion taking this thing apart, more and more layers! underneath the leather was hay used as the padding. again, should have done this outside!

all the garbage after ripping this thing apart…

i honestly didn’t expect that this would be all that was left after stripping it down.

this is the chair without the pad and that’s the material i picked out.

already looking much much better

and done! well for now anyway. still trying to decide if i should repaint the chair, thoughts??


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And NOW Deathmatch Downunder will join the channel on January 28th, featuring matches from the debut event “… And Out Come The Wovles”.

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• Increasing numbers of people are looking for ways to relieve stress. This can be no surprise seeing that the price tag on everything is rising and effort is getting harder to help keep and find. Relaxation has changed over the years. In the early days you can get a book and sit during intercourse reading for around one hour, maybe two. This used to be enough to get the daily stress off your brain. It was like drifting to a different universe. This doesn’t help any longer, and that’s why everybody is asking “how do you meditate?” Meditation Picture

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  • spiritual_meditation It seems like every other day I’m asked to reveal a New Meditation Technique. Meditation can be used for different purposes, but for the sake of this article, I will cover a simple but very powerful meditation technique that harnesses the Law of Attraction in a unique way. I rarely use the term “Law of Attraction” because more often than not, it creates a limited awareness and understanding of how it works. I feel its more appropriate to call it “The Laws of Mind.”

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37 Great Athletes Turned Actors

Talk about triple threat. Not only are these athletes incredibly physically gifted, but it turns out they have acting abilities too!

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We can never get enough of our favorite athletes, which is why we’re so thankful many of them stay in the spot light after retiring from the game (which let’s face it, is at an early stage.) If it isn’t enough that the people on the list are very gifted when it comes at their respective sport, they surprised us all when they showed us they could act too! And they much like their sports talent, their acting talent was not just a lucky shot. Many have gone on to have amazing acting careers, some so good we forget they were ever athletes. They’ve taken their talents to many different genres such as action and comedy and they nail whatever role they play. We’ve complied the best athletes turned actors from around the world:


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1915 Founded in Fukagawa-ku, Tokyo. (currently, Koto-ku, Tokyo)
1920 Started production of oxygen welding rod.
1928 Started production of wood screws, machine screws, materials for rivets
1933 Opened Sunamachi plant and installed patenting furnace. Started production of: hard drawn steel wires for furniture and automobile seat, tire chains of material, and electric welding rod core.
1934 Reorganized into stock company.
1935 Head office and Tokyo plant moved to current location. (3-1-12 Higashi Sumida, Sumida-ku, Tokyo)
1940 Established Sugita Shoji Co.,Ltd. Started production of steel wire for aircraft screw.
1944 Capital was increased for 1 million yen.
1945 Due to the massive Tokyo air raid in March, 95% of all plants were devastated to ashes, bur managed to re-start operation 2 months afterward.
1948 Raised capital to 3 million yen. Started basic researches on cold heading steel wire.
1951 Raised capital to 6 million yen.
1952 Raised capital to 10 million yen. Started production of cold heading high carbon steel wire, and shipped as screw materials for telecom equipment and automobile parts.
1953 Raised capital to 20 million yen.
1954 Exported steel wire and steel spring wire to Brazil. Started production of cold heading alloy steel wire, and shipped as high-strength bolt material for automobile.
1955 Installed Japan-made high-speed continuous wire drawing machine.
1956 Raised capital to 40 million yen. Started to export steel wire for screw to the United States.
1958 Raised capital to 50 million yen. Installed oil tempered furnace and started production of alloy steel oil tempered wire for automobile hanging spring. Obtained permission (No. 3523) to label our steel wires as certified by Japanese Industrial Standards.
1959 Raised capital to 60 million yen.
1960 Raised capital to 100 million yen. Obtained permission (No. 3521) to label our hard drawn steel wires as certified by Japanese Industrial Standards.
1962 Raised capital to 125 million yen. Started to export oil tempered wire to the United States.
1963 Raised capital to 150 million yen.
1964 Raised capital to 200 million yen.
1965 Jointly with Kobe Steel, Ltd. and Nissho Iwai Corporation (currently Sojitz Corporation), Sugita established Shinko Sugita Wire,Ltd., as second main manufacturing unit of Sugita Wire group.
1969 Started production of cold heading LH steel wire for 7T, 8.8 bolts.
1970 Shinko Sugita Wire,Ltd. raised capital to 150 million yen.
1971 Shinko Sugita Wire,Ltd. raised capital to 200 million yen. Installed roller hearth type continuous spherical annealing furnace.
1973 Shinko Sugita Wire,Ltd. raised capital to 300 million yen.
1977 Developed facility to produce inorganic polymer flocculants ('Poritetsu') to treat water used in plants, and started actual production of 'Poritetsu', which marked a completion of recycling system of waste sulfuric.
1984 Jointly developed and installed unmanned night operation system for STC annealing furnace with Daido Steel Co., Ltd．
1990 Started measurement certification business, a function as analytic entity.
1994 Sugita's SRS60 high strength oil tempered wire was chosen to produce automobile hanging spring in the U.S. Decided to hold stake in Laclede Mid-America, a subsidiary of Laclede Steel Company in the U.S., and signed a contract to supply technology related to production of high-strength oil tempered wire.
1997 Merged with Shinko Sugita Wire,Ltd. and raised capital to 220.4 million yen. Changed company name from Sugita Wire Plant to Sugita Wire, Ltd.
1999 Acquired ISO 9002 and QS-9000 certificates in quality management system for oil tempered wires. Signed a contract with Nanjing Baori wire Products Mfg.Co.,LTD（Nanjing）, an affiliated company of Shanghai Baoshan General Iron and Steel, China's largest steel manufacturer, to supply technology related to production and secondary processing of wire for screws and springs.
2000 ISO 9002 quality management system extended to cover all products, and acquired certificates for all. Quality management system ISO 9002 was also applied to all products except chemicals, and were certified to meet the required standards.
2002 Acquired certificate for ISO 14001, an environmental management system standard.
2004 Piano wire produced in Tokyo plant won approval to label that the product satisfies Japan Industrial Standard (JIS). Certificate number is JIS G 3522. Established a joint company Kobe Wire Products (Foshan) Co., Ltd. in City of Foshan, Guangdong Province, China, as production base for cold heading steel wire.
2005 Established a joint company Jiangyin Sugita Fasten Spring Wire Co., Ltd. (JYSF) in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China as production base for oil tempered wire, and took a stake in the entity. Acquired certificates for quality management system ISO/TS 16949：2002. Decided to apply for certificates ISO 9001:2000.
2006 Completed construction of second annealing plant in Tokyo plant and administrative office in headquarters. Installed cogeneration system at Tokyo plant.
2009 Installed enegy-saving roller hearth continuous annealing furnace into Ichikawa plant, with financial support from government-affiliated NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization).
2013 Installed Productive Order-Process Control System (POCS). (a transfer of production management system to a new scheme)
2013 Introduced solar power generation system into Tokyo plant.
2015 Marked 100th anniversary since company foundation.


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