Month: March 2023

Planning on buying leather furniture? Did you know there are different types of leather? Which is best for you? Read on and learn some important tips to keep in mind when shopping.

Start by thinking about the usage patterns you expect with your new leather pieces. Will the furniture be placed in an active, “high-impact” setting with children, pets, food and drinks galore? Or, is your home a quiet, “low-impact” environment?

Quality leather is a remarkably durable material that will offer many years of comfort. However, the right type of leather should be selected based upon how you expect the furniture to be enjoyed. As a leather furniture repair and restoration specialist, I repeatedly hear from my clients how their sales person, designer, etc. never told them the leather would stain, fade, tear, etc. So, avoid these problems by learning a few simple keys and asking a few simple questions. To understand the issues let me take you through a mini-primer about leather.

There are two ways of coloring upholstery grade leather — with dyes only or with dyes and pigments. Leather colored strictly with a dye is referred to as unfinished, whereas pigmented leather is classified as finished. So, what’s the difference?

If leather is colored only with dye then there is no protective coating. It is sometimes referred to as “pure-aniline” leather. (Aniline is a type of dye that colors leather.) This leather is soft, supple to the touch. Its color is rich and deep as dyes are …

People are statements made by persons who no matter whether they want to acknowledge it or not, are submissive to their doggy! The unhappy aspect is, the doggy understands it!

Irrespective of whether or not you want to let your dog to get on the furnishings is your company. But, you must be informed, with a lot of canines, giving them that privilege, opens a door to other unacceptable behaviors, such as growling, snapping, possessiveness, and down appropriate attacking.

There are pet dogs, when permitted to get up on home furniture, see it as an elevation in pack standing. In their head, THEY now possess the couch or the mattress. In their head, THEY will come to a decision who may or may well not sit on THEIR home furnishings. It can be mistaken! They have factors backwards. However, guess who is to blame? It is not them!

The condition you are in now, possibly started out out a little bit like this. When it was a pup, every person would choose them up and put them both on their lap, or on the household furniture. Then, they would get up there all by their tiny self. Shortly, they begun to get possessive about that piece of furniture. They’d growl or snap, and anyone would chortle and say how adorable it was.

Your pet dog did not see the humor in it. They had been as well chaotic going by themselves up in pack position. Today, they are dead major …

Saul liked him very much and David became one of his armorbearers. –1 Samuel 16:22b

In biblical days, an armorbearer was one who actually carried the shield and armor of his leader as he went into battle, often acting as his personal assistant. For example, King Saul had several armorbearers assigned to him.1 In our modern-day, I see no one walking around fully suited in the classical armor of the early centuries.

Nevertheless, in the spiritual realm, we continue to need our armor. The Ephesians’ writer commands us to put on the full armor of God so that we can take our stand against the devil’s schemes.2 Just as much as our early century counterparts, we in the ministry of service are to suit up in the Armor of the Spirit and carry the armor of God’s leaders in the battle of faith.

The term armorbearer was originally translated from the Hebrew word, nasa, meaning to figuratively or literally lift up, support or simply help.3 On occasion, Bible translators have translated the word, “help”, from the Hebrew word, nasa. In light of these defining terms, we can see an armorbearer is one that helps or supports the arms of an assigned leader during the times of battle.

A modern day armorbearer is one called by God to serve and help his assigned leader in life, ministry, and especially in the fight of faith.4 In essence, an armorbearer is called to attend to, minister to, care for, help, be of use, …