Shabby Gals

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Aqua Sweetie

Well, it's Thursday and we had a very nice Memorial Day Weekend. My kids came up to the camp and we had a very nice time. It was really nice to see the grandkids enjoy the place, like their parents did when they were young. Well anyways, I have a little project to share with you. Found this little shelf at an estate sale and it was just brown and all scratched up and I didn't think it was appealing. So I decided to paint the shelf a pretty aqua color which seems so popular. After the paint was dry, I than covered all the details and grooves with white paint and wiped off the excess and the white paint was left in the detail work of the shelf. I really like the end result and I think it looks so sweet. Here is the before and after pictures:

I really like the aqua shelf against my orange walls, what do you think? See you next time Dianne.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Sweet Little Rocking Chair

Good morning!! The sun is shining and it looks as if we are going to have another beautiful day. I love this time of year!! I hope you all had a great Memorial weekend. I went up to my parents camp for the weekend and brought our little girl there for the first time. It's kind of fun to bring our kids to places that we grew up at.
Today I am going to share with you a cute, really old rocking chair that I painted. I primed it with kilz, which took forever because of all the spindles, and then I sprayed it with white paint. It didn't have a seat so my husband made a seat for it and covered it with this sweet, floral fabric. I was thrilled with how it turned out. I think I might put it in her nursery. It's so dainty and sweet that i think it would match perfectly. Here are the before and after pictures. Have a great rest of the week!! ~ Jessica

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Banana Cookies

I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend! Especially those who loved ones are either gone overseas or no longer with us. We were all thinking of them yesterday, enjoying the freedom that we have because of them. We spent Sunday and Monday at my dad and mom's cottage. It was fun, and hot and the kids especially enjoyed it!

So anyway back to the cookies. I am sure everyone has a brown banana or a couple of brown bananas every once in a while. Well I do, nobody likes to eat them around here if they have too many spots on them. So instead of making the normal banana bread or muffins, I tried out cookies! I have to say they were pretty delish! My recipe tasters also decided they were pretty good, because they did not last long around here! So here is the recipe it was easy too!

Banana Cookies Recipe

1/2 cup of unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup of sugar
1 egg, room temperature
1 cup of mashed bananas (about 2 ½ large bananas)
1 teaspoon of baking soda
2 cups of flour
pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of ground mace or nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon of ground cloves
1 cup of pecans (walnuts and chocolate chips are fine alternatives)

METHOD

1 Preheat the oven to 350°F. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the egg and continue to beat until the mixture is light and fluffy.

2 In a bowl, mix the mashed bananas and baking soda. Let sit for 2 minutes. The baking soda will react with the acid in the bananas which in turn will give the cookies their lift and rise.

3 Mix the banana mixture into the butter mixture. Mix together the flour, salt, and spices and sift into the butter and banana mixture and mix until just combined.

4 Fold into the batter the pecans or chocolate chips if using. Drop in dollops onto parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Bake for 11-13 minutes or until nicely golden brown. Let cool on wire racks.

Makes about 30 cookies.

My switches in the recipe, are no nuts I just used chocolate chips and I used nutmeg.

I think they turned out delicious. So I hope you enjoy them. Until next time...Kim

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Monday, May 28, 2012

I love boxes!!

Happy Memorial Day to you all! Thank you to all you BRAVE men & women who have risked their lives for us! Hope you had a great long weekend. It was awesome weather for the beach! We spent a few days enjoying some quality family time along Lake Michigan. I just LOVE Lake Michigan!!! We enjoyed some good laughs, little bike riding, swimming, and of course some good 'ole ice cream. It went by way too fast. Anyways, I have a small project to share with you this evening. My dad gave me this old vintage box. It was really dirty and the wood was broken off in a few places. I knew it had potential...and I just love old boxes right now. Not sure why...but I just do.

I gave this little box a quick little clean-up. I then gave it a coat of Kilz primer and then a few coats of white latex paint. After the coats had dried, I used my cricut to create a number stencil. I'm kinda partial to the number three.... I then decided that it needed a little distressing. Here she is .....what do you think?

Thursday, May 24, 2012

An Old Piece of Wood

Hi everyone, the Memorial Weekend is almost here and I'm looking forward to the warm forecast they are saying we are supposed to have. Well, here is a little piece of trim that was actually on an old sofa. The sofa was beyond repair but the top of the sofa had a carved piece of wood that was really pretty and I decided to take it off the sofa. Here is the piece:

I really liked this piece but I wanted a little color to accentuate the carving, so I took some soft pastel colors, like pink, green and white acrylic paint from Joann's and painted the fruit and leaves. I than rubbed burnt umber paint all over the carving and made sure I got paint into all the grooves. I wiped the umber off and left some in the grooves and where I thought it looked nice. I than had some gold paint that I highlighted in places to give it a little gilt. I than shabbied it some and here is what it looks like now:

So what do you think???? See you next Thursday, Dianne
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