Shabby Gals

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Mirror Turned Into A Chalkboard

Good evening! Hope your enjoying your weekend so far.....We're enjoying a heat wave around these parts! One last hurrah for the pool!! I found this mirror at a garage sale while up at my parent's camp. I think I only paid a dollar for it...due to a stain on it, although you can't tell in the picture. I attempted many times to remove it...but it wouldn't budge. I decided that it might be cute as a chalkboard since the mirror portion of was in mediocre condition.

I primed the mirror with some Kilz and then painted two coats of chalkboard paint onto it. Here she is after her make-over.

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Thursday, August 23, 2012

A New spin for Retro

Good Morning!!!!!! Been having a wonderful summer and hoping you have to. It seems a little too short for enjoying the warmth and sunny days.....I have been spending a lot of time at our cottage and having some fun with some projects that are just for up here. My husband picked up this wonderful retro-style table and chairs, but of course there is a project involved. The table has a light grey Formica top and wonderful curved legs, but the chairs needed some TLC. Here is the before picture of two of the chairs:

As you can see the chairs were a little bit of a project, but oh so worth it. There are 6 chairs. I first was going to reupholster the chairs all in a light grey to match the table top, like how they were supposed to be, but I changed my mind. I had stopped in a little shop in the Farwell area in Michigan and had found some wonderful oil cloth with lots of fun colors. Oil cloth is so nice because there is covering on top of the material that makes clean-up very easy. Anyways, the hubby said that I always have to put a spin on something, but oh well. I did use the light grey for the very back of the chairs and used the print on the seat and as welt along the top of the chairs. I scrubbed the chair legs lightly with soft scrub and a soft scrubby to get some of the rust off and they look wonderful.. A little elbow grease and some patience is all that it took.. I love them and what do you think?

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Book Carrier

Good morning!! It's going to be another beautiful day in Michigan. The sun is shining and it's already starting to warm up. This project that I am going to share with you today is a makeover of a flea market find. I found this little wood tool box that has been used and probably stored in the garage or barn for years. I decided to paint it yellow, seems to be one of my favorite colors lately, and add the word simplify to both sides. I then sanded in a few places to give it a worn look. When I was finished I wanted to put it to a good use and I thought long and hard about it. I then discovered that all my little hard cover books for my little girl would fit inside of it. Seeing that she is only seven months old she probably won't appreciate it and carry it around till she is much older. None the less when we have nieces, nephews and friends over they know exactly where the little books are. They enjoy taking it off the shelf and choosing books to read. They then know exactly where to put the little books when they are finished with them. I hope you all enjoy your Wednesday!! Until next time...Jessica

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Sunday, August 19, 2012

A Laugh is a Smile that Bursts.....

Hi!!! Good evening! Hope you had a great weekend! The weather has cooled off significantly around Michigan....and we've been enjoying our windows open and the air conditioner turned off. It's almost Labor Day and we've been trying to soak up all that summer has to offer. We hope to make a few more out of town trips before our summer days are officially over. Aaah...makes me sorta sad in a way. Summer is such a carefree and fun time....

Anyways...I do love signs...and I know I've probably already mentioned that before. I had this board lying around in our very organized garage(ha, ha..right....) and thought it might look cute with a quote printed on it. I cannot remember where I found the quote. I'm thinking it was most likely from pinterest. Here's the plain board before.....

I gave it one coat of primer and paint in one. I printed off the words using my cricut machine. I used contact paper to make the stencil. I chose to use different colors for the words and then used my sander to distress it a bit. I do love this quote... makes me smile!!

Friday, August 17, 2012

Easy Makeover

Good Afternoon, Everyone.......Here is an easy makeover and it was fun. Found these owls at a flea market and I thought they would really be fun done a little different that how they looked. I especially didn't like the eyes which seemed to just stare at you. Here is the before picture:

These owls were ceramic and I paid only a dollar for each one. I had a can of oops paint that was pink, so I painted the pink on the owls. I didn't spray them pink. When they were dry, I painted the owls with a gold acrylic paint that came from Michaels craft store. I really liked this particular gold paint, sometimes gold paint can be a little to dark , with maybe too much brown in it. This gold was truly a gold color. I wiped off the excess and stood back and decided to let them dry. After that out came the poly-acrylic to finish them off and to seal the paint. I really liked the end results and they were easy to do, just took some time.....