ArtPrize 2013

For the past three weeks, art has filled the museums, hotels, restaurants, parks, bridges, parking lots, sidewalks and yes, there’s even some in the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Once a year, Art from around the world pops up in every place you can imagine for ArtPrize, an international art competition, where the $200,000 top prize is decided entirely by public vote.

Here in Grand Rapids, you’ll discover everything you’ve ever imagined and then some.

Art pops up in every inch of downtown.

Venues include: The Bob, Devos Place, Amway Grand Plaza, J.W. Marriot, Kendall School of Art, The Gerald R. Ford Museum, The Grand Rapid’s Public Museum, The Children’s Museum, The Grand Rapids Art Museum… Admission to all public museums is free and open to the public during this 19 day event.

I look forward to this event every year and I wouldn’t think to show up without my camera.

Earth Giant

This eco-friendly giant created from mostly natural material found in the forest, was one of my favorites this year and I apparently wasn’t the only one who fell in love with him. Out of over 1,500 entries, Earth Giant came in 6th place!! Congratulations Ben!!!

ArtPrize is a photographer’s dream!

The pictures I capture each year become my own little piece of art since I’m not blessed with the ability to create or even come up with some of these awesome pieces.

Uplifting

I have never taken an art class but I know what I like. Color always draws me in, especially when it’s one of those pictures that has a million other things to look for. This Alice in Wonderland painting reminds me of a giant doodle art.

All Things Possible

“All Things Possible”, a 12′ wide oil and acrylic painting, is absolutely amazing! The artist designed this for a public space such as a children’s hospital to evoke hope and optimism.

I love the vibrant colors, amazing detail and all the tiny peep holes where you can see other tiny pieces of art; definitely one of my favorites from Art Prize 2013.

I hope you all had a chance to see this in person!!

All Things Possible is at The Bob in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. I’m not sure where it will go from here; a lot of the artwork is for sale.

For complete details on this piece, click: All Things Possible

Polar Expressed

Polar Expressed is a set of three breath-taking acrylic paintings that are absolutely out of this world! I doubt you can grasp the magnitude of how large they are via a computer monitor. Each piece is 48” by 72” so together, they sprawl 18’.

The depth, texture, detail and realness of these polar bear blew me away.

This piece took 2nd place and is a must see at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in downtown Grand Rapids

For all the official details on this piece, visit: Polar Expressed

I wish I had enough hours in a day to go through all my pictures and edit, re-size, copyright (since so many people like to steal my photos lately) but I’m out of time. I have to leave in 20 minutes to go do an 18 hour sleep study so I’ll have to end with this.

Sleeping Bear Dunes Lakeshore

Sleeping Bear Dunes Lakeshore is a panoramic view of the northern Michigan Shoreline made out of layers of fabric, yarn, fibers and silk. It’s huge! The four panels stretch 20 feet!

There are so many more photos. When I get time, I’ll add them to this post. Gotta fly ~

October 5, 2013

Happy Camper Vintage Flea Market

I’m headed out to Not So Shabby’s Vintage Flea Market with all sorts of hand picked architectural finds. I’ll be helping out this morning from 10:00 a.m. (if I get there on time 🙂 until 1:30 p.m.

Here are some of the things available.

Not So Shabby is located in Holland, MI 2975 West Shore Drive, Holland, MI 49424

See ya there!

Shelly

September 30, 2013

Flea Market Treasures I Couldn’t Resist

After spending all day Saturday purging this…

BEFORE

into this! We had half the garage as organized as it gets and packed the other half with unfinished pieces we’re selling this week at our Huge furniture sale (things we never had a chance to paint this year).

AFTER

My husband left for a golf tournament and left me to fend for myself at a local flea market…

I knew it was going to be trouble when my good friend Anastasia teamed up with me. She twisted my arm and talked me into this!

Which led me to discover these amazing old casters!

We both stood their drooling at this primitive pie safe ~ just after I swore I’d never buy a stinky piece again. This one needs some major cleaning! The top seems to have a black oil over it. How the heck to I get that out??? Yes, this will be a labor of love…

I’m so glad the cap was off the truck or we wouldn’t have been able to haul fit everything.

Like this beauty!!

That reminds me… The back seat still has some cool treasures in it!!

I need to make room for the stuff I picked up today…

Join us at Shizzle Design’s Vintage Furniture Purging Sale

this Wednesday & Thursday afternoon, October 2 & 3 in Byron Center, MI

and what doesn’t sell at my house then will go to Not So Shabby’s Happy Camper Vintage Flea Market on Friday, October 4 in Holland, MI

Click HERE for photos, hours, directions, descriptions…

Hoarding…

the excessive collection of items, along with the inability to discard them

September 30, 2013

Shizzle Design’s Autumn Pickin’ Sale

Our garages are bursting at the seams and we can’t take it any more. Shizzle Design is having a HUGE Ready-to-Paint Furniture Sale in BYRON CENTER, MI on Wed & Thursday Night

Cathy, Laurie and I have cleaned house. We’re purging half the unpainted furniture we’ve purchased over this past year. I personally need to sell it fast before I change my mind.

I’ve attached a few photos but this only shows a few of the things we’re selling. We just picked up a beautiful vintage solid oak claw foot pedestal table that we may actually part with for the right offer.

Cathy and Laurie still need to bring over their furniture plus

I have several Adirondack chairs…

looking for pictures…

barn wood (select pieces) I’m keeping half of it for projects

Vintage Metal Ceiling Crown Molding with great Patina

Vintage Metal Ceiling Tiles with Great Patina

pictures somewhere around here

Old Windows

old shutters…

We are packed with furniture and offering great prices to get it out of here.

Lets make a deal!!

I have a feeling I’ll be bombarded with questions on prices, measurements… but I absolutely don’t have the time right now to do all that. If you see something you really like… get here when we open.

You’ll be able to pick up paint and supplies here too!

update – Many Many Mahalos to everyone who showed up for our sale

We are forever grateful to have more space in our garage!!!

We plan to take what doesn’t sell to Not So Shabby’s Happy Camper Vintage Sale at 2975 West Shore Drive, Holland, MI 49424 on Friday afternoon from 3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.. Rain is forecasted for Friday, so I’m hoping to sell a bunch here on Wed & Thurs.

September 22, 2013

Shizzle Style Furniture Paint Workshops – Sept 2013

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… our students ROCK!

I don’t know who gets more excited about seeing their transformations, me or the people who paint them, but we’ve had a ton of incredible furniture makeovers take place again with our last workshops.

I’ve already spent nine hours writing and editing pictures today so I’m going to let the pictures do the talking from this point forward.

Prepare yourself to be amazed ~ most of these pieces were painted by first time users of chalk and clay paints!

Martha used American Paint Company’s Home Plate mixed with a little bit of CeCe Caldwell’s Omaha Ochre to create this creamy white, For the taupe, she chose APC’s Rushmore. I realize this looks like a larger project but because only the front of this full size headboard needed to be painted, it only took the two sample size pots she was given at the workshop and something like this is sometimes ends up being faster to paint than a kitchen chair.

She flip flopped the colors for the top coats and ended up with this. I think the colors look fabulous whichever way they’re broken out on this antique headboard. I LOVE how it turned out and I don’t even think it had been buffed at this point.

A couple other good friends came in with matching chairs they had picked up a garage sale the day before the class. These two were so much fun and their makeovers represent their vibrant personalities.

I know some of you like to see the “before’s” but there are only so many hours in a day. They were basically ho-hum kitchen chairs.

Within minutes, they had already taken on a whole new life!

Everyone loves learning how to wet distress with water. It’s the point where you can truly change your painted furniture into a unique piece of art.

Just look at all this yumminess! Love the orange peaking through!

…and here they ready for their new fabric. I bet they found some really cool material to go with the colors!

I love turquoise and orange layered on whimsical pieces These two were painted in CeCe Caldwell’s Mesa Sunset and Santa Fe Turquoise!

This bookcase was given a rich layering of either CeCe Caldwell’s Young Kansas Wheat over Destin Gulf Green or APC’s Rushmore over Beach Glass. She’s going to decoupage pretty fabric on the inside of the back to create a classy piece for her kitchen.

You can see the some of the layering and texture in this close up of the shelf.

Speaking of textures & layering, Jill wanted to learn how to create funky textures like I did on this patchwork dresser. I create these by busting into all leftover paints.

There’s really not enough time for students to do this on a full size piece of furniture during a workshop, but she’s got a lot of experience painting and just brought in a small table top cabinet. I have no idea what the original purpose of it was, but it sure was cute! She started out chunking the sections into different colors using tiny bits of odds and ends from our personal workshop.

What ties it all together is when you start layering multiple colors over that. I basically go to town without any thought process what-so-ever and keep layering and layering until I start to like what I see. Jill picked it up right away (warning, it can be quite frustrating until you get the feel of it, but once you do ~ it’s smooth sailing).

This old wooden chair looks so much better with coat of green.

I can’t wait to see it once the seat is re-upholstered!

My jaw is still hanging on the floor with the finished chairs painted by these two friends.

You would think they’ve done this for years but it was the first time using our paints.

Even the base coat made this made a world of difference. It had such great lines, I think any color would have looked good but Maureen was looking to make a statement an opted for CeCe Caldwell’s Mesa Sunset.

Ummm ~ HELLO!! Is this gorgeous or what??? OH MY GOSH!!! She is either a super fast learner or has been blessed with an incredible gift. WOW!! I wish you all could feel the silky finish on this. You can achieve a higher sheen like this by buffing the wax immediately.

I’ve been trying to finish up this post for a couple hours now but continue to have issues with WordPress. I have been using it for my blog format for close to a year now and dislike it as much as the first day. It’s virtually impossible to get my text to appear the way I want and takes forever on most days to download pictures. For some reason it’s stuck and will not allow me to finish my post ~ again. If you’re not seeing anything past this point, it’s because I have not resolved the issue…. TO BE CONTINUED…

This style of chair will always remind me of Marian from Miss Mustardseed. She’s painted plenty of awesome chairs in this style and I think she’d agree that our first time student did a marvelous job with her renovation!

September 16, 2013

Antique Double Bow Front Dresser & Highboy Chest

Earlier this summer I was fortunate to come across two beautiful French Provincial pieces by Dixie ~ a single highboy chest and matching double bow front dresser with mirror. I must not have shot a before of the long one but I did snap a picture of this earlier this summer.

I absolutely love the style and curves of these pieces and these classy older pieces are so well built.

I started out with an idea in mind but halfway through my layering, I put the drawers back in and though ~ hmm, that doesn’t look too bad. I thought to my self, “self, maybe I should just stop and go with this”

I debated over it for a few days but the clean crisp contrast without any distressing just about took me over the edge.

You see, I’ve never been one to fall to peer pressure. I really don’t care if other people think I should be painting every style out there. I am who I am and if I don’t like it, I have a hard time putting my name on it. What can I say?

The base of the cabinet was already coated in American Paint Company’s Freedom Road but I wanted to lighten it up. To do that, I mixed up a creamy color using mostly APC’s Home Plate with a smidgen of Rushmore and Heaven’t Light. I did a somewhat elegant distressing on these pieces to give them a custom feel without distracting from the elegant lines. Now that’s more like it!

The drawers were painted in APC’s Rushmore. To add a little more depth and dimension, I pounced some American Grit, a fine gray powder by American Paint Company, into the wet wax. We carry American Grit both in our Shizzle Design location as well as on our Online Shizzle Shop.

I love the original hardware ~ it gets me every time!

I used my favorite Dark Vintage Antiquing Wax by American Paint Company to finish the top of the dresser. I can’t get enough of this wax over dark paint ~ the look is absolutely DELISH!! It almost reminds me of a Venetian Bronze and had the most beautiful color and finish.

Here they are…

Both the highboy and the dresser are sitting pretty at our Shizzle Design booth at Not So Shabby in Holland, Michigan.

Well ~ they were when I posted this, for availability stop into Not To Shabby at 2975 West Shore Drive, Holland, MI 49424 or contact me for an update. Dimensions for the pieces are available on our Shizzle Style Furniture for Sale page.

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a hui hou ~ Shelly

September 11, 2013

Little Girl’s White Princess Bed

Hi guys! Last week, I posted about several projects I hadn’t had a chance to write about and asked you all which one you’d like to see first. Well, this little gal won the survey so, as promised… here’s the story behind the little girl’s dream bed.

Sometimes in life you find yourself at the right place at the right time. That happened to me recently when I stumbled upon this beautiful antique princess bed.

The previous owners were literally packing up and moving the day I found out about it and as luck would have it, I ended up with a pretty good deal.

I was immediately drawn to the beautiful curves and details having never seen anything quite like it before. It was white when I bought it but it had the worst sprayed finish I had ever seen on a piece of furniture.

I don’t know what they painted it with but it was bumpy, rough and horrible to the touch. It almost felt like course sand paper.

I sanded and sanded and SANDED to smooth it all down. I think it was made out of diamonds, well…. ok, not that tough but it was a serious chore to sand down whatever they sprayed on it. It’s not like I could take a belt sander and go to town because there are way too many curves and detailed wood pieces so I used a combination of my orbital sander, mouse sander and then did everything else by hand.

Speaking of details, one of the trim pieces was missing on the headboard (you can see it in the first picture). I can’t believe I didn’t notice it when I picked it up ~ ugh… now what? If it was in a more discrete place, I could remove the molding on the opposite side but this was a large piece on the headboard.

I could see the outline from the original piece so using wood fill with with my fingers, an old screwdriver and a nut pick, I re-built the missing piece. After several rounds of fine-tuning, I was it pretty close. I only have one picture of it during the repair because my fingers will covered in goo, but I basically did it like you would with silly putty or Play dough.

It’s not perfect by any means, but it will fade away by the time it’s draped with pretty linens, pillows and stuff animals ~ you probably won’t even notice it.

I painted everything with two coats of crisp coats of American Paint Company’s Navajo White. I usually go for APC’s Home Plate which is a more creamy antique white, but this bed was screaming for a whiter white.

I could have use American Paint Company’s Top Coat to finish it, but I chose to use use American Paint Company’s Clear Wax instead. I buffed it out as soon as I applied the wax using our drill buffing brush which creates the most amazing finish.

I just wrote a post about why I love American Paint Company’s Waxes and shared some Great Tips for Waxing Painted Furniture.

for more of my tips on waxing made easy, click HERE.

It sold before I had a chance to get it into the store and will be making it’s way back to it’s new owner this weekend.

A hui hou!! Shelly

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August 28, 2013May 25, 2017

Vintage Cement Trowel Hooks on Reclaimed Barn Wood

Last week we ran across an old collapsed barn. When Opportunity Knocks… tear into an old barn and re-purpose that wood!

The barn wood was free for the pickin’ so we dropped everything and started tearing into the remnants of it in search of pieces we could re-purpose into table tops, signs and hooks.

It was hot and the debris was full of broken glass and rusty nails ~ we were in our glory!

We scored lots of great wood for table tops. I’m hoping to use this for a vintage library table I’ve been hoarding.

My sister Cathy spocked a ton of shutters. I’m not sure what’s she’s planning to do with these.

We climbed, heaved, hawed, pulled, pounded, wiggled, and pried to get the pieces we wanted. This piece weighed A TON! I couldn’t move it an inch until my niece’s husband showed up. In two minutes he had it over the edge and on the ground. SHOW OFF!

After spending hours tearing pieces apart, we had three truck loads of wood.

I came home absolutely filthy, covered from head to toe with dirt and blood running down my legs from all the cuts I had incurred. I was so excited about the wood that I never even realized I had cut myself. (yes I’m up to date with my Tetanus, you have to be when you’re as clumsy as I am). Nothing a good ole’ Popsicle can’t remedy!

I’m seriously out of shape and was too pooped out to start pulling out all those nails so we temporarily just piled it up at the end of our driveway. Oh, where are all the HGTV guys when you need them?

As tired as I was, I was still determined to make at least one creation before the sun set.

I grabbed some old tools to use as hooks. I picked some of these up when I was at the World’s Longest Yard Sale in Tennessee a couple weeks ago

and scored the others during my pickin trip with Karen Berg of Redoux Interiors when I was in California this spring for a Fundraising Paint Workshop.

I smashed my thumb a million times trying to pound the old nails through the metal, but determination prevailed!

This is exactly what I envisioned when I came across these old trowels

I’m serious, I’ve wanted to put these together for the longest time, just needed the right piece of wood.

Can’t wait to show Karen what I did with the trowels I found and share this with Donna from Funky Junk Interiors, the best junkers on the planet ~ I think they would have enjoyed digging through the collapsed barn too!!

What unique things do you like to make hooks out of?

a hui hou kau kou! Shelly

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August 22, 2013

Antique Vanity Painted in Custom Mixed Creamy White

If you’re subscribed to my blog or follow our daily updates on our Facebook Page, you’ve already seen the first two posts in this series about our Mahogany bedroom Set Makeover. I shared how we used My Favorite Stripper to refinish the beautiful Mahogany tops in the first post…

and in the 2nd post Antique Mahogany bed in Creamy White, I shared Cathy’s custom mixed recipe for the beautiful creamy white paint color we used for this entire set.

Today, I’m sharing some of the struggles I come across during the actual design process. This is where I tend to stumble and fall.

What do I want to draw attention to?

How much distressing will look best?

What overall look am I going for?

I HAD PLANNED to just do a very light distressing on this set because it had such pretty lines to begin with but once I got that damp rag in my hand, I was out of control like some kind of wild woman.

I must have been stressing the night I was experimenting on this. Yes, I try things out on the actual piece even though I always advise my customers to try it on test boards ~ what can I say? I don’t mind painting over something if I don’t like it but I never want to make more work for others. Anyway… I was stressed out that night and the more anxious I am, the more aggressive I am with my artwork.

Well… I got a little carried away with this one.

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE how this foot turned out, just not on THIS piece.

Does that make sense?

I loved the two colors together but on this piece, I felt the highly distressed finish clashed with the elegant style of the set. I didn’t like it distressed this much… at all.

It wasn’t just the distressing I didn’t like, one of our favorite whites seemed too white against the highly pigmented finish on our Mahogany tops. That’s where the ease of mixing chalk and clay colors comes in so handy! Cath mixed up a beautiful creamy white which was far better suited for the color of our stained tops.

We new it was right as soon as the first brush stroke went up against the stained tops. It’s so quick once you know what you want.

We ended up LIGHTLY distressing the feet like this

We distressed the other detailed areas like this

Oh Wait!! I almost forgot the chair…

We chose some really nice upholstery fabric we inherited from dad’s workshop to recover the seat ~ thanks dad 😉

Oops! Hope I picked that bristle out of there!!

You’d think that would be natural for me with all the painting I’ve done, but I still don’t know… until I see it all together

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A hui hou!! Shelly

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a hui hou ~ Shelly

August 18, 2013

Gorgeous Antique Mahogany Bed Painted in Creamy White

I checked out a beautiful antique bedroom set over the 4th of July and was immediately drawn to the beautiful lines and details of the furniture.

The entire set was very solid and well cared for ~ just needed a little TLC to give it new life.

Cathy and I teamed up to get this bedroom set knocked out. The first thing we did was a bleed thru test because we were dealing with solid mahogany. We placed a damp paper towel over the finish to see if any stain or finish wood leach up through it. It wasn’t even a minute, more like seconds and it had already turned orange/red meaning we had a bleeder!

No worries, we are always stocked with Zinnser’s Clear Shellac for just these occasions.

You can find this at Home Depot, Lowes, Menards and most other hardware stores and paint shops. We slapped on a quick coat to form a barrier before we started painting. Notice I said quick coat. It was the end of a long, hot day and the shellac dried incredibly fast.

Not taking the time to add a second coat proved to be a big mistake!

You don’t always need two coats if you get it covered well enough with one, but to be on the safe side, it’s best to apply two coats so you catch any spots you may have missed on the first swipe.

We painted up several sample boards to see which color we wanted underneath and decided on Dollar Bill from American Paint Company. It’s a beautiful smoky blue /gray, the same as CeCe Caldwell’s Smoky Mountain.

The paint went on beautifully but we had a LOT of pieces to cover!

Furniture was sprawled from my living room to the dining room, garage and onto the deck.

Everything was moving along as nice as can be until we started applying the white over it. That’s when we started noticing the tiniest specks of reddish orange. Oh no!! They were too faint for me to even capture with my camera but it was a red flag that we needed more of a barrier over that darn mahogany. Thank goodness it wasn’t everywhere!! We applied another coat of clear shellac, really taking our time to coat the surface well. Lesson learned! If you rush through the application of the shellac, it may not cover perfectly. I’m guessing it was drying so fast outdoors or that I was brushing so fast that I created tiny bubbles which later popped.

We planned to use APC’s Home Plate for the white, but decided later that we really wanted a creamier color. Cath pushed up her sleeves and started dumping, like only a true mixologist can ~ lol She added some Heaven’s Light and Rushmore to the Home Plate which created a very pretty cream color.

See the difference between the custom color on the left and APC’s Home Plate on the right? That’s the creaminess we came up with, well ~ not me, Cathy did and I love it!

Cathy and I tag teamed the distressing ~ I blasted through certain areas with my mouse sander to cut through to the base coat of Dollar Bill then exposed some of the wood. Cathy followed behind fine tuning everything with her keen eye for details. If you haven’t wet distressed chalk and clay paints yet, watch our how to video on wet distressing .

How to Wet Distress Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFfW0xW3riU

It’s super quick, clean and a fun way to distress. Here’s a close up of the foot board.

…and I especially love the detail on the headboard!

The creamy color shows up best in this shot.

We sealed the entire bedroom set with APC’s Clear Antiquing Wax

…then buffed everything to a beautiful finish using our drill buffing brush

Here she is in all her splendor!

Here’s the Recipe I used on this piece:

American Paint Company’s ~ Home Plate

American Paint Company’s ~ Heaven’s Light

American Paint Company’s ~ Rushmore

American Paint Company’s ~ Clear Antiquing Wax

Stay tuned for posts on the rest of this antique bedroom set!

A hui hou!! Shelly

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