The one where it all began

The one where it all began. 3 years ago my niece needed a new dresser for her room that we were creating at her Nana's house just for her. We had been looking up different paints and had heard about Annie Sloan Chalk Paint®. We decided to give it a try and absolutely fell I. Love. 

The first piece we did was pink and old white dresser. 

We used pink for the first layer of paint. Once that was on in all the places we wanted it we added a couple of thin layers of old white. As soon as everything was dry we used sand painter to bring the pink forward on different parts of the dresser, and agin we let it sit over night. The next morning we used washclothes to clean the whole dresser from the sanding the piece down. Our final step was to wax the whole thing. You must wax at least times if not 3. And then your piece needs to cure for 30 days before using so that it doesn't scratch. 

Let us know which of our projects you would like to hear about next. 

Thanks, 

See you all soon. 

Marie and Dorane 

Bazaars are over and back to real life

We again want to thank everyone for all of your support this bazaar season. We enjoyed seeing all of you! It is back to painting furniture and making signs.

Check out some of the holiday signs we have out at our booth right now. 

Love, love, love Windows with saying and we have this one out at the fussy duck right now. 

Oh Dr. Seuss you always know what to say. I love the say the yellow background makes the words just pop 

Love barnwood frames. I think they look great on any wall. 

That's all for now. I hope that now that the craziness is over I can get into a good posting schedule on here. 

Thank you all,

Marie and Dorane 

Signs, signs everywhere lots of signs to spare

I'm so sorry it has been so long since my last update. Last week we did a 3 day bazaar at Bauman Farms and while it was a blast it was also exhausting. We are now in between bazaars as our next one isn't until November 7th. I thought that I would do a post completely about our signs.

Now before I begin I want to say we have many sizes of signs and we do custom orders as well.

I will start will start with some Christmas signs I was working on tonight

This is a 14x14 and is $20.00 

Here is another version of the same sign

This is a fun one with all of Sandra's reindeer 

14x24 and is $35.00

Here is one of my favorite Christmas saying and I think it holds true.

14x24 and is $35.00

This is all the Christmas ones I have so far. I will add more signs tomorrow so check back tomorrow 

Thanks,

Marie 

Busy times

Good Evening Everyone.

So sorry that it has been such a long time since we have updated this blog. We have been Busy, Busy, Busy the entire month of June.

We just went out to update our booth out at the fussy duck and loving the way it is looking. so today that is what we are focusing on. Showing you all the fun new things that we have added out there.

We have also just celebrated being open for business 1 year. It has been an amazing year and we have learned a lot. 

On that note I will be back Wednesday to take a look at all the amazing signs we have been working on.

In the mean time scroll to the top of the page and check out our pages on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram; and Pinterest for the most up to date news on Color Me Shabby

Thanks,

Marie and Dorane 

Drawer birdhouse and our fun outing

Good afternoon everyone!!!

       Today we went out looking for garage sales. We didn't find to much but we were able to get the rest of the pieces that we needed to finish a project that we are working on.

     Last week we did a Mothers day giveaway for a fans on Facebook. we had people post their moms names on a post and then we did a drawing from those. once we had a winner we wanted to do a unique gift for them.

    On pinterest a couple of weeks ago I found a post about taking an old drawer and painting it and add a tea pot and teacup to it to make a birdhouse and thought this would be the perfect gift for this mom.


here is what we did:

we painted the drawer with a beautiful blue color that we had on hand, which we then waxed so that when we added the second color and distress it the blue wouldn't rub off. after the paint and the wax was completely dry we added the second color which was a light green that we got a couple of weeks ago. all we did with this color was dry brush it on and then use a cloth to rub it off so that it gave it a two toned look. once we let that sit overnight we added polyurethane to it so that it could stay outside, and finally we added the teapot and the teacup to finish up the look.

I absolutely love the way that this project turned out and think the person who it will go to will love it as well.

thank you all for all your support and please comment on this post and tell us what you think of our current project.


Thanks,


Marie and Dorane

Introducing Color Me Shabby

Hello Everyone!

If you are joining us from our Facebook page then we are so glad that you are checking out our new website. We know that we had a few requests to get a website up and running and we figured that this could be the first step. At the top of the page as you clicked over from our facebook page you can see all the links to the different pages that we have up and going. 

If you are joining us from out there on the web then welcome to color me shabby. Let me tell you a little about each of the owners of this business. They are a mother daughter team who enjoy redoing, re-purposing, and reusing vintage furniture to make it new again. First there is Dorane she is the mom of the 2, she is 51 and has 3 children 2 boys and 1 girl. She also has a 5 year old granddaughter. Then there is Marie, as you already know she is the daughter of the group. she 27 years old. 

We exclusively use Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in all the painting that we do. We love the way it coats everything and the wax that goes with it makes all the furniture we do look great.

We also wanted to give you all a look at what we have done in the past so that you know what to expect in the future for this blog.

The first piece that I am going to show you was a rocking chair that Dorane did. It was in great shape when we got it, and the only thing it really needed was a new paint job. she first painted it in Old White and then added violet it the sides and the back to give it a splash of color. was it was painted she figured it needed something extra so she found this great family quote to add on to it as well.

next we have a wooden kitchen cabinet that we worked on together. this one took a little bit extra as we added wood filler to parts that were damaged to make all the pieces smooth. the other thing that the original piece had was a stand on the bottom that we took off as it was making the cabinet very uneven. once all that was finished and sanded we added the colors Florence and providence to it and then waxed with clear wax and took it to our booth.

OK now we have a personal favorite of mine. this one is a dresser that we got and again we added wood filler to parts of it and then sanded it down and turned out great. we painted it Florence, providence, and then added duck egged colored stencils to the top. because the top of the dresser gets used a lot we didn't wax it, instead we used polyurethane on it and then waxed the rest of the dresser. this was one we couldn't part with so it was kept and is now the dresser in my room. 

 OK this one is a great this is an old hope chest that we found and again it is one that we didn't part with. we painted it Paris grey and graphite and decoupaged images to the top. 

this one is a nightstand that we did that we only had one of. it is pained Henrietta, and graphite. I then decoupaged book pages to the top of it. this is another one where instead of waxing the top we used polyurethane on it as it is such a high used area. I love this one as it is very me. we used a book I love and again it is in my room being used by me.

OK last picture for this post. this is a recent picture of our booth that we opened last July at The Fussy Duck in Salem Oregon. as you can see we sell all types of home decor, and will do more blog posts on the things that we are working on.

We would love to hear from all of you here in blog land, and find out what you would like to see us work on and blog about. Please look to the top of the page and see all the different sites we are also on, and please head on over to our Facebook page that we update every time we are working on something new. we also do giveaways over on Facebook all the time as well. 

Thank you,

Marie and Dorane