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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, January 31, 2014 | 2 The The Drape Morningstar Lady Drape Lady taekwon-do Interior Interior 13 · Friday, May 4, 2012 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.insideHALTON.com mic cePut with the Drape Lady a `WOW' into your living space with the Drape Lady Whether you are looking to put drapes in your bedroom, living, dining or family s i was with my clients all day anyway ." any longer as i was with my clients all day anyway." By Kathy Yanchus Do, General Choi Hong Hi, conducting seminars all over the room or any other room with a window, the Drape Lady is your one-stop resource with her clients, she develops the perfect style of window covering, together with her clients, she develops the perfect style of window covering, Over the past 25 years, if you walked intohardware, Morningstar world and is a certified International Taekwon-Do Federafor window treatments, drapes, blinds, drapery curtain linings and drapery traditional, updated traditional, casually elegant or country . "i love be it formal, traditional, updated traditional, casually elegant or country. "i love fabric. specializing in residential homes in Oakville, mississauga and burlington areas, Taekwon-Do any night of the week you'd find Mike Morningtion examiner and referee. In 1988, the general personally e of dressing architectural windows, and i also carry an endless the challenge of dressing architectural windows, and i also carry an endless the Drape Lady, who has won numerous readers choice awards for design and fferent high-quality fabrics, textures and blinds that create variety of different high-quality fabrics, textures and blinds that create a degree black belt and as an star teaching classes. awarded Morningstar hisa fifth service, provides designs that reflect her client's personality and lifestyle. n piece right in your home." conversation piece right in your home." "If I didn't have a passion for it - and I have a huge pashonour to his mentor who passed away in 2002, he has "it didn't take me long to fall in love and with the whole process of creating the rofessional retail entrepreneurial experience have kept the years of professional retail and entrepreneurial experience have kept the sion for it - magic' I wouldn't have beenwindows able to do it. I teach all of maintained this rank. `Perfect for my client's and their living space," Drape Lady a local treasure for more than 20 years. "between myself and Drape Lady a local treasure for more than 20 years. "between myself and my elisabeth classeswe -Wimmer four classes a night, five days a week, for 25 explains. "The number on your which belt really doesn't matter when it esses, have over 70 years of combined experience, which we my seamstresses, we have over 70 years of combined experience, we years." before becoming the Drape Lady, elisabeth owned bed and bath boutiques closely hare and draw from. ithree also work together with installer constantly share and draw from. i also work closely with my installer comes to together anmy instructor, what matters is the quality of inin toronto, mississauga and Oakville and it was there she had her been first and most working uable to my work. We have for many years who is invaluable totogether my work. We have been working together years Not much has changed in those intervening yearsthat except struction you get." for many humbling window treatment experience. "my customers kept asking me all the time h enjoy the process of the installation and the touches. i i am am and we both enjoy the process final of the installation and the final touches. the fifth degree black belt instructor is now teaching his There is no question about the authenticity of his martial if i could make working a simple bedroom drape with out of two king size sheets fora them. i do te to be such great team that supports very fortunate to be working with such a great team thateach supports each other other students'children. arts lineage, having been taught by the general himself. like challenges and so ithe stepped up to the plate and learned how to measure, what ry original stage of creation." through every stage of the creation." hardware to use, what lining to use and how to figure things out," What he teaches is not a sport, but a method of using the pe Lady , elisabeth along with her team of seamstresses make sure at the Drape Lady, elisabeth along with her "This team of sure that is seamstresses my passion. make This is my life. that My stock is good. If after a and while elisabeth really began to enjoy working with windows and and that mpleted from beginning to end all clients 100 per cent the job is completed from beginning to are end andcome that all clients are 100 per cent mind, body spirit to better oneself, not just in training, you here, you're learning true Taekwon-Do the way it "if we can make drapes from bed sheets, we can also make he quality and craftsmanship throughout. "Our goal throughout. is to find practical happy with the quality and craftsmanship "Our goal is to a find a practical butthought in life. to herself, meant to be taught, by the person who created it." them from fabrics." soon after it became,make "if we can makeyour drapes for bedrooms uit your needs and windows great," she says. solution tolook suit your needs and make your was windows look great," she says. Morningstar has been in the same location on Speers Taekwon-Do is not about "stretching, kicking and punchwe can also make them for living, dining, the family rooms, etc..." nformation about Drape Lady or get some ideas about for to more information about the Drape Lady or to get some ideas about Roadelisabeth (just east of her Third Line) for more than two decades, ing," he says, "but it's learning sold last store in 1990 and became the send Drape Lady literally atments for your home elisabeth a message through her window treatments for your home send elisabeth a message through her to fight so you don't have to overnight. "i began working from my residence, proved to have been one w .drapelady .ca. clients contacting the Drape clients Lady through her website www.drapelady.ca. contacting the Lady through her transform when exposed outgrowing two previous locales, the first a roomwhich in the St. fight." HeDrape has watched students of my best business decisions ever," she explains. "i didn't really need a store receive a discount on their new order . receive a discount on their new order. website will Volodymyr Cultural Centre. Using the mind, body and spirit to better oneself fOrum fOr Prac t itiO ne r in bu s iness nD in D u s t ry this feature serves as as Dynamic fOrum fOr PractitiOners in a business anD inDustry Drape Lady 287 Interior · www.drapelady.ca at 905-847-3287 · www.drapelady.ca ing me through my new for contacting me website through my new website TheDISCOUNT CIAL SPECIAL DISCOUNT The 3,000-square-foot facility boasts 2,200 square feet of fully matted training space complete with kicking shields, kicking bags and a 40ft. long wall of mirrors. Mike Morningstar during one of his regular fund-raising Break-a-thons where he breaks "Always correcting our technique is a big part of what we 2,000 boards within a do. When we do meditation, we look at ourselves on the limited period of time. The event has raised more than $60,000 for various charities. inside; when we're training, the mirrors help us look at ourselves on the outside. We have to do both." of it is below the surface, one-tenth is what you see." When Morningstar launched his Taekwon-Do facility, he Together with you, Elisabeth will develop the perfect style of window Martial arts is not something you pursue for one hour a simply wanted pass along the benefits he hadcasually received week; it's a way of life, says Morningstar. The rigorous traincovering, be it to formal, traditional, updated traditional, elegant from martial art, to whoever wanted to learn. It was ing builds physical strength and more importantly, mental orthe country. Elisabeth loves the challenge of dressing architectural hiswindows. love of Chuck Norris movies variety that initially prompted strength. She carries an endless of different fabrics,his textures involvement at that thecreate age of 18, after years of competitive and blinds a conversation piece right in your home. "That's the nine-tenths that you don't see. You're consports. stantly building your confidence." An expert ininto bedroom she will pull it all I've together from Taekwon-Do is for "absolutely anyone"; his students range "When I got this, Imakeovers, thought, `This is the thing been scratch orIf work with your favorite items, them off with just looking for.' I work hard I benefit, if I getfinishing lazy, I suffer; it was from age seven (Morningstar won't take them any younger) right accessories andThe drapes. in my control as tothe how I would succeed. competition is to mid-60s and is a 60/40 split of males and females. more with yourself, you're not trying to score more goals than Morningstar opened his school after a stellar competiThe Drape Lady would love to work with you. the other guy,Contact you're not trying run faster than the other tive career. He was the World Champion, North American us to set upto your FREE consultation guy, you're just trying better yourself. Theestimate more I got into it, Champion, All Japan Heavyweight Champion and five-time - Noto charge for design and the more I realized that it's really like an iceberg, nine-tenths Canadian Champion. He assisted the founder of Taekwon- LET US PUT A WOW INTO YOUR LIVING SPACE to the martial art; their confidence soars, in many cases, grades and behaviour improve. One of the things he is most proud of is the school's community and charity work, including Morningstar's own Break-a-thon, where he breaks 2,000 boards within a few hours, an event which has raised more than $60,000 over the years for various charities including the Diabetes Hope Foundation, which has initiated a scholarship in the school's name. (See Breakathon.ca) Morningstar says he can be having "the worst day ever" until he walks through the school's doors and is greeted by a gung-ho eight-year-old student, who has memorized his student oath and exuberantly boasts that he's going to be a black belt someday. "You can't buy those moments." His goal has always been to make "some small difference" in the lives of everyone who has walked through his doors, and like the tenets of Taekwon-Do's oath, that will never change. To reach Morningstar Taekwon-Do, located at 1410 Speers Rd., call 905-847-8955 or visit www.mstartkd.com. TAEKWON-DO M O R N I N G S T A R 1410 SPEERS RD. #5, OAKVILLE 905-847-8955 www.mstartkd.com (just east of 3rd line)