Shabby Gals

Sunday, March 24, 2013

We Opened An Etsy Store!

Happy Sunday! We are super excited to announce that we have opened an Etsy store recently! We would love if you stopped by to check out some of our treasures:) There is quite an assortment of items that we have listed. Here's the link to our store.....3ShabbyGals. I hope you enjoy the last bit of your weekend.

Thanks for reading....we really appreciate it:)
Shabby Gals

Saturday, March 23, 2013

How about some Spring?

Good Morning fellow bloggers. It's a little bit warmer this Saturday in March, but I'm beginning to wonder if old man winter will ever leave and give us a little bit of Spring. I have a little project that I did and it looks springy and the colors remind me of Spring. Here is the before picture. It was just a little piece of wood that someone had carved (probably thinking of Spring, too) and I forgot to take the original picture before I slapped some kilz on it.

I had decided that I wanted to paint this piece using some soft colors. I choose a pink, a light yellow,a soft turquoise and a lavender and of course, a soft green. I used acrylic paints that you find at Michael's or at Joann's. I painted the whole piece and than found some sparkly paint that was clear and some that had some gold speckles in it and I painted that over the paint..

When everything had dried, out came the sandpaper. I sanded just in certain parts to give that shabby feeling.

As you can see the sparkly paint shows up just a little bit, but I think it gives it a shabby, girly look to the carving. Where I had sanded the original wood comes thru and adds to the look.

Here is the piece all done and in a wall grouping. I think it gives the wall-grouping a little bit of Spring? What do you think?

Have a great Saturday. Until next time, Dianne...................

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Friday, March 22, 2013

Chalkboard Vase

Happy Friday! Hope things are well with you! I am headed out of town for a gals weekend in a few hours and looking so forward to it:) I am hoping to get some shopping in and have some good 'ole belly laughs.

I recently made this chalkboard vase. I don't have a before picture of it but it was just one of those cheap glass vases. I sprayed the outside with some chalkboard spray paint and it instantly changed the look of it and became not only functional but now "fun" as well.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!

If you're reading....ThAnKs!!

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

An Outdoor Scene

Good morning. It's Thursday and I have a wonderful project to share with you. Found this little table at a garage sale and it sat, sat and sat. I didn't quite know what to do with it. Do you have that problem sometimes? Well, anyways, my oldest son was home from North Dakota for the holidays and he wanted a little project to do. He had seen all my treasures in the basement waiting for a little TLC so he had asked if I had something for him to do. I told him that I didn't know what to do with this cute little table, did he?

So here is the before picture. It had a removable glass top that was framed with the same wood as the table. He had told me that he would like to carve an outdoor scene on the table, would I consider that? I told him yes, go ahead. Tedd (my son) has a lot of artistic talent and I knew it would look great when he was done.

So out came the sandpaper and the carving tools. He drew the design on after he had sanded the top down. He had previously drawn this design in art class and had it on paper. It took him quite a bit of time to perfect the carving.

So after he had carved the design, he had stained the carved piece with a dark stain. Than the top of the table was also stained with a lighter stain. When that had been done, I thought that the carving was not showing up so much so I painted the carved lines and spaces with the green paint that I had painted the table with. I thought that the design showed up so much more with the paint instead of the stain. It took a little bit of time to wipe the excess paint off but it was worth it.

I also had painted the top of the glass frame the same color and the rest of the table and I think it looks like it has been framed.

I than had distressed the top edges which picked up the stained top.

I also had painted dark brown paint in all the crevices on the table and legs. I wiped off the excess which accentuated the detail that was also in the table and matched the top of the table that had been stained.

So here is my little table both done by me and my son, Tedd. I just love it and it's going to go in our camp where we spend so much time in the summer. Thank you, Tedd.
What do you think? Until next time, Dianne.............................
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Simple and Sweet

Wahoo it's the first day of Spring!!! If only we could get a touch of spring like weather around these areas it would be great. It is so darn cold it hard to get motivated to even get out of the house. Anyway I guess I should be content with the weather when I am getting things accomplished inside. Not to long ago I found this little footstool and thought it was the cutest little shape, I wasn't so fond of the color and how boring it was. I took it home and of course I went to work trying to make it look a little bit more feminine and shabby.

I went to the fabric store and purchased some burlap. I only bought a yard because of the size of this little foot stool, but in the end I could have saved myself some time by purchasing a little bit more. I plopped the stool on top of the fabric upside down and cut out a circle about a 1/2 inch bigger than the top of the stool for seam allowance when sewing on the side. I then cut out two strips to fit the circumference of the stool because I didn't have enough burlap for only one strip to go around the entire thing. As I said previously it would have saved me sometime to buy a little bit more burlap, but none the less it worked out just as well. I sewed the two strips together and cut out two strips of some off-white fabric I had laying around the house. I cut them out twice as long as the piece of burlap that was going around the sides of the stool so that I could form ruffles with it. I then sewed the sides to the top which wasn't the easiest thing working with burlap that is really stiff. So the seams at the top connecting the sides may not look perfect but I think it fits the look of the entire piece. It's shabby and chic right? At least that's the way I like to look at it when everything doesn't look super precise. : )

I hope you enjoy the rest of your evening and week!!!