Do you know Shelley? Slipcover-ess extraordinaire? The self-taught seamstress who turned her hobby of slipcovering furniture into a profitable business? If you’re not acquainted, you’re about to GET ACQUAINTED. Check out the magical magic she works:
Gadzooks, that is gorgeous. All that ruffly goodness from a sad little thrifted chair? Amazing.
Shelley clearly knows her stuff, and lucky for us, she wants to SHARE her stuff.
She wants to teach YOU how to slipcover too! Yes, YOU!
Shelley has come up with several products to help you do exactly that and MORE:
Slipcovers with Shelley DVD – an easy to follow step-by-step guide to sewing your own slipcovers.
Get It Covered – take your slipcovers to the next level with this advanced guide.
Pillow Talk – learn the techniques it takes to sew professional-quality pillows.
The Whole 9 Yards – a guide to starting and running your own successful slipcover business.
But Shelley didn’t stop there. She has continued her creative streak by providing thrifty home makeovers that maximize a minimal budget, and teaches you all her tips and tricks along the way in her new e-book, “Styling Cents” – Reuse, Repurpose, and Revive Your Space.
We all want our homes to look beautiful and pulled together, but unless you’re Beyonce, you probably need to stick to a budget and find inexpensive ways to get there.
Shelley and her friend and coauthor Camille are pros at finding creative ways to strettttttch a buck, and they share it all in Styling Cents.
I was able to review a copy, and I was truly impressed with how much helpful information Shelley and Camille have packed into this 55-page ebook. They share their secrets for successful thrift store shopping, their favorite sources for online bargains, tips and tricks for staging a home to sell, pricing guides for what you should expect to pay for secondhand items, decorating myths, tutorials, photos, and so so much more.
A professional designer can charge $50-$100 per hour for a simple consultation, but you can easily take charge of your own space with Styling Cents. Here’s some more cool stuff:
- Process for decorating a space
- Shopping Tips–where to go to find the best deals
- How to shop at a thrift store
- Used furniture pricing guide
- How to negotiate on pricing
- Advice on choosing paint
- How to paint and stain furniture
- How to accessorize
- Curtain hanging tutorial
- Furniture placement
- Hanging pictures
- Quick change ideas
And today, just for us, Shelley is giving away a copy of Styling Cents PLUS her Slipcovers with Shelley DVD! Over a $60 value!
One lucky Better After reader will win, and heck, it might be you!
Simply leave a comment to enter, that’s it!
And if you are all sweaty with anticipation and about to go dust off your sewing machine, stop right there, because first you need to know this news: Shelley has also given us an exclusive Better After discount on all her products!
It’s the biggest discount she’s ever offered! That’s 30% off of Slipcovers with Shelley DVD, Get It Covered, Pillow Talk, and The Whole 9 Yards, AND Styling Cents.
The e-books are instant downloads, so you could very well get started today, and pretty soon you might just be sending me projects like this:
Good luck friend, I hope you win! Winner announced next Friday, Oct 10th.
Her slipcovers are beautiful! I would love to get my hands on her book. I need some tricks to stretch our home decor budget!
I have a chair that’s calling my name saying “help meeee!”
Looks like a great book and DVD – love to have both
Yes please! Great opportunity to own some exceptional resources! Thanks Lindsey and Shelley.
I would love this. There are a lot of things around my house that need slipcovering.
I’ve always wanted to learn how to do slipcovers! Maybe this will be my chance!
I would love to win this great prize!
Would love to win it! I’ve got the perfect candidates for slipcovers in my living room.
I would love this! I started a rocking chair well before my baby was due. I just can’t get it right and I’m tired of feeding my 2 month-old on my bed!
mmmeeeee, please!
I have tried slipcovering. Failed magnificently.
Yes please!! I’d love to learn a new skill and set down my sander and get in front of the sewing machine instead.
Her work is beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Whooopeeee!!! 🙂
Wow! I would love to win!
OH MY GOSH! I need these!!!
I totally need this book! My hubby has “this chair” that he won’t get rid of so I need to know how to reupholster it to match with our decor!
I would love to win!
I would LOVE to win Syling Cents!
This giveaway is so kwel. Stuff like this comes is so handy. Thanx for the chance
What an amazing transformation – I would love to win this
Shelly’s does beautiful work. Love her slipcovers.
I could SOOOO use that DVD! I’m trying to get up enough nerve to tackle a slipcover for our sad little loveseat, and I’ll be honest, I’m skeeeeered! It seems pretty overwhelming, and that DVD sounds like just what I need. And who couldn’t use some tips on re-using and re-purposing stuff?!
Sounds like a great book to learn how to make a slipcover!
Fantastic! I’m scared to death to attempt upholstery and I’ve never gotten a store-bought slipcover that ever looked right.
Oh my xoxoxox heart just skipped a beat…Shelly girl, you rock shugga!
would love to learn
Would love to win! So exciting, now that I am retired would love to tackle some more projects! Pick me! Pick me!
This is just what I need…help!!! Thanks for a chance to win.
Wow, what a generous giveaway!! Would love to learn how to slipcover, if only to disguise a certain, heinously orange, barrel-backed chair upstairs… 😉 Here’s hoping!
I need this!
Thank you for a chance to win, love the slip covers! Lisa@ Sweet Tea N’ Salty Air
Beautiful work! You can always tell that someone knows their stuff when the stripes match perfectly like they do in that last picture. I’ve got a sofa and chair with worn upholstery (it’s a loose weave fabric and it’s pulling apart at the seams) and a big spot that magically appeared when I moved. I could really use some slipcover instruction.
I have a very comfy sofa that just does not go with anything else in my house. It needs a slip cover. This would be fantastic.
I would love to win any of the items. I have some chairs to recover, so the slipcover DVD would be great! Thanks.
Would love to win!
I have a curb picked chair that is just waiting for a slip cover. I would love this!
Everything in my house needs a slipcover. Hope I win!
Love it! Shelley did a slipcover for a $25 custom sofa I found on C-list and it’s AWESOME. Hope I win her book! 🙂
I have tons of ideas for projects, but tend to get overwhelmed; it sounds like her book would be just the thing to help me get started!
Her book and the DVD look like all you would ever need to makeover a whole house on a budget! I would love to learn how!
This is a skill I have always wanted to master…imagine the possibilities!
I enjoy reading Shelleys blog and seeing her slipcovers!
I enjoy Shelley’s blog and slipcovers!
Most of my furniture is or has been or could be slipcovered. I love the look. Jo @ Let’s Face the Music
Love Shelleys Blog such an inspiration for reviving tired furniture pieces!!
I’d love to have these great items from Shelly. Thanks for the giveaway!
I want to win
I’m so gonna go check out her blog. Wowzah.
I have spent the past year laying on the couch recovering from lung cancer (surgery, chemo et al). When I felt better said couch went out to the curb…lol – a friend gave me a couch but it just adds to the plethora of miss-matched in my home. I spend my time now doing the things I love – to make my house a home! it would be nice to have guidance from a pro. Good Luck everyone!
Woo Hoo Thanks for the opportunity
Always wanted to try making slipcovers !!
I have two chairs that want covers so bad!!
What a difference the slip covers make! Thanks for the giveaway.
Oh, these sound wonderful!!!
Oh, I would love to win this!!!!! Her work is gorgeous. 🙂
Oh Lindsey! I’m crossing all my fingers and toes! I made lots of cute pillows and pretty curtains for my loft after we did the makeover for Jessi. Now I just need to redo my sofas. They really need some love!
Omg! I sew, quilt, but have always been intimidated by making slip covers/makeovers! Please, sewing Gods let me win!
I have a pink chair just like that one that needs a cover so bad!
Oh Lindsey! After we did Jessi’s makeover, I made lots of fun pillows for my loft and new pretty curtains, but my sofa’s are kind of scary. This is exactly what I need! All of my fingers and toes are crossed! 🙂
I have sewn many items but not slipcover. This would be a great win.
Was so interested in this. I have made several slipcovers over time, but never gotten really comfortable with the whole process. I get it done, but need the tricks and work process to make my work and confidence better.
Such a generous giveaway and I would love to win.
Oh I would love this!! I have some lampshades that I have the fabric for and everything but I’m so nervous to actually recover them. This would help me be not so nervous and give me the gumption to actually do it! 🙂
I would love to win! I have a couch and chair that are screaming for a slipcover!!!!
Shelly does amazing slip covers…something I’d love to learn…just bought my first house and need tons of help getting it in shape!
Love the striped slip cover!
I love what she does! Thanks!
I have been following Shelley’s blog for about a year now, and contemplating the purchase of her videos. I love what she is able to do. Thank you for the chance of winning her book and video!!
What a wonderful giveaway. Thank you for the chance to win.
Love her work and if I win, since I have purchased her dvd, I would want only the book and you could pick a second person to make happy with the dvd. I’ll be checking out the discount on the other dvds!
I have a chair that is super comfy, but a little dated. It would look great with a new slipcover! I tried making a slipcover once, it was sad.
I would LOVE to get my hands on those goodies! I have a chair that could really use some professional help. If I win, I guess I will give it a try!
What a fun prize. Thank you for making it possible!
I would like to be able to turn this into a profession. These tools would certainly help.
Great prize…something I could definitely use!!
Shelly is so great at whatever she does, I would recommend her to anyone.
I love these!
Pick me pick me!!!
My husband has finally had enough…he says I cannot bring another “project” home until I finish the ones I already have. This could very well be the fountain of inspiration and creativity I’ve been searching for to inspire me!
I would love to try my hand at slipcovers. This is a great giveaway!
I would love to be the winner
Shelley won’t ruffle your feathers! No!No! She ruffles your chair, your sofa, your world!
How did you know I have a chair that I want to slip-cover? Crossing my fingers that I win!
Looks like a great book and DVD!
Ohhhhhhh I’ve been eyeing that How to slip cover DVD for some time I hope I win! Thank you for this opportunity!
The chair in my library just begged me to send in a comment and enter the drawing so she can look beautiful again.
Four chairs just waiting for me to learn to slipcover! Love it!
Four chairs just waiting for me to learn how to make slipcovers! Love it!
Slipcovers x 4 chairs! Yippee!
Four chairs waiting! Love this!
Just the word ‘slipcovering’ sends chills up my spine so anyone who can make it simpler is great in my book!
I’ve been wanting to slipcover my couch for ages, but don’t know where to start. This would be a great help.
Yay! What a fun giveaway 🙂 I have been wanting to slipcover a few things for a while now… Thanks for the chance to win!
Sara
I have a wingback chair waiting for me to work magic on it (and release it from the evil 80’s chintz it’s covered in!). My daughter and I have been dying to learn how to slipcover. Hope we win!
I want one! Actually, I want her to come and make me one – does that come with the sale? 🙂
Wow! This is an awesome giveaway. I really hope I win this one 🙂
Whenever I watch HGTV, I say I want my house to look like that, which I realized is looking like no one lives there. But I would like to spiff it up a little.
Ooooo! It would be so awesome to learn her techniques!
Can you and Shelley pretty please be my new best friends?
I would love this book. I have a strange sofa that defies regular store-bought slipcovers. Maybe, just maybe with her help I could make my own!
I would love to win! My slipcovers are very sad and need help!!
Fantastic giveaway! I always wanted to learn how to slip cover and have just the right chair to learn the craft of slip covering on!
So exciting!! I would love this!
Love you, love Shelley, would probably pee my pants if I won!
I would love to win! I have an old chair I’ve wanted to slipcover but haven’t been brave enough to try it.
I’ve done reupholstery but slipcovering is scary!
I have the perfect 1st project chair to learn this on. Woot!
Amazeballs! LOVE these makeovers I have 2 chairs that need a desperate cover!
this will be great as I need to recover my kitchen chairs! Thank you
Pleeeeeeeease!
I would love to learn to slipcover stuff! Thanks!
Would love to add these skills to my arsenal of decorating diy’s!
What a fantastic giveaway!
I’ve been following Shelly’s blog for a while…would love to get my hands on these!!
Great giveaway!
The e-nook sounds fabulous and I might just have to improve my sewing skills!
Would love to get these items. So much work to do, so little time (and knowledge).
Would love this!
Oh how FUN! Pick me…PLEASE??!!!! 🙂
Wow…I’ve been putting off a two chair project for fear of messing it up, winning this would be amazing!
Would love to receive this and pass the knowledge along to both my daughters… PICK ME!!!
This is so the kick the pants I need to finally work on my wingback. I bought it for my daughter’s nursery with the plan to recover it. . . . that was 5 years ago! ugg, I NEED this one!
Yes!! I have 3 pieces of furniture I have been wanting to slipcover but feel so overwhelmed by the process. I hope to be pick!!!
Thanks,
This is my type of decorating… use/reuse and budget decorating that doesn’t look budget. I have a leather sofa and loveseat that need a makeover. This book would be a dream! 😉
I have several pieces that could use a slipcover.
Gotta have this!!
I could do this!!!
I need to go to the next level, like hiding my old furniture. Just the trick!
Wowsers–these are great! I would LOVE to learn how to do this!
We’re moving into a new (old) home in the next week or so, this book & DVD would be a great help!
I would love to win! I have an upholstered rocking chair that was my grandmother’s that I would love to figure out how to slipcover.
Shelley is the bomb-diggity.
This is an exciting offer! Thank you for making it possible. I recently raised all my children and have been a nurse for the past 20 years. Had my first grand-daughter last year and as a result am growing ever closer to my only daughter, we have been able to find ourselves together through preparing for the new baby. I wasn’t the mother to her I should have been as her father and I divorced when she was 12. However, the two of us have the best time decorating whether it be the nursery, our homes, face lifting furniture together and such. I have been teaching myself upholstery in order to teach her when her baby is older and she has time for herself again. Having books such as these that you are making available to your social public would allow us even more resources to do things more for ourselves, and together…the most important reason for my entering this giveaway. I wouldn’t normally do this, but I have been doing lots of things I wouldn’t have done before…and I wonder why I waited so long. Good luck to all the entrants for this giveaway. Whoever wins these great books will certainly enjoy them no matter what.
I want Shelley to be my sister-in-law or next door neighbor.
I have an older couch in excellent shape, just sad 1980’s material. The self-dyed cotton duck slipcover from PB that never fit right is also starting to look forlorn. I’d love to learn how to make custom fit slipcovers, so pick me!
I would love to learn to slipcover! I have a couch and three chairs, plus 4 dining room chairs that need covering right now! Fun!
I have an ugly brown chair that needs to be slipcovered. What a great giveaway!
My two couches have the sads. They are draped in painter’s drop cloths, waiting for me to sew slip covers. But I am intimidated by the scope of the project. Hoping I win so I can get some tips that will motivate me to get going already!
Holy Moly! Her slipcovers are just gorgeous!! Wish I had at least a tenth of her talent! 🙂
I love Shelley’s slipcovers! She has inspired me to make my own – I’m almost ready to get started! Love her work & blog!
Fingers crossed! No funds to buy new furniture with tuition payments. These resources might get us through the next three years.
I need slipcovering help!! Pick me!!
bEAUTIFUL WORK.lOVE HER COVERS
All the upholstered surfaces in my house are crying out for the help of this book.
I would love to cover my couch with one of these!!!! I hate my couch. It needs help
I have an awesome overstuffed, double sized chair that is in great condition except for it’s non-matching fabric. It used to be part of my living room set that I loved! Unfortunately, my hubby didn’t like it as much so we parted with everything but the chair. If I could win this I could get the chair a more modern style and show it off! 😀
Thanks for the opportunity!
Love it! I want to slipcover a chair but cannot find the right size and style I want anywhere!
What beautiful, inspiring work she does. I’d love to learn to make slipcovers. Not only to change the look for each season, but to protect furniture from my dogs, & keep everything spiffy.
I’ve admired her slipcovers for a while!
I LOVE Shelleys slipcovers! She’s amazing!
I would love to win
Shelly is an inspiration! It’s so nice seeing older couches getting a new life!
Oh the things I could reupholster with her knowledge!
Great giveaway, would love to learn how to reupholster!
I would love to learn how to do this!
Her work is just gorgeous! Love those slipcovers and want to learn how too! 🙂
I would love to win this. I consider myself a novice and would love to have more tips and tricks!
wish I had the confidence to try! All those pretty chairs just waiting to be saved!
Shelley is awesome. I love everything she does.
Love Shelley’s work!
Would love to win!
I have been wanting to try slip covering for a long time but I’m chicken. I go to Shelley’s site to dream.
Those slipcovers are amazing!
Oh, how I wish I’d seen this earlier! Sept 29-Oct 6, we were driving ourselves, our stuff, and our cat cross-country. While we were sorting the sell/give/keep piles, I took a good look at our furniture and I realized the sofa–and probably the dining chairs–desperately need slipcovers (I’m looking at you, Muttley cat). I’ve admired Shelley’s work since I first saw in on Miss Mustard Seed’s Friday furniture feature. This giveaway is so timely. Thanks to you both for the opportunity.