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 Welcome back my BEAUTIES!

If you follow me on Facebook

you know that there has been a lot going on here

at the Art Is Beauty home.

 Yesterday the store where I sell my Art and Furniture,

"Changing Thymes," was Featured on the Local News station

down at this years Art Prize.  2 of my paintings made it into the display.

You can see the video of the paintings HERE!

It was pretty exciting to see my WHIMSY tree

and Moonlight Coventina show up on the television.

I had planned on selling the coventina, but was waiting until AFTER she needed it for 

the display.

If you are interested you can shoot out an email to me at

artisbeauty1@gmail.com.

 Not only was I in the ArtPrize TV feature for the store,

But I was also asked to Photograph our Christmas display

for a spot in

Michigan Home and Lifestyle Magazine  

Winter edition.

If you remember my Momma was in the hospital at this time and 

I was pretty frazzled, but I had already committed to doing the photo shoot,

and I am so glad I didn't back out.

I was nervous, but excited.

Even more nervous about creating the advertisement itself as well.

I love the owner and the store and really wanted to do a very

professional job.

I am happy to say she was thrilled with how it came out.

Now in ADDITION to ALL that,

I also am in charge of the Sale Graphics for the store.

We are celebrating our 5 YEAR anniversary on October 1,2, and 3.

So this was the Graphic I created.

 If you are from the area, we would love for you to come experience the Changing Thymes 

Store and Family.

I told you its been crazy here.

I am feeling much relief at these things being off my TO DO list.

I am also happy to say that my MOMMA is doing much better.

She is getting some of her Sass back, 

and that is a GOOD thing.

This weekend we are in for some more crazy,

with my two Oldest girls going to their Homecoming dance.

Hopefully I will have some pretty pictures of them to share too! 

If I don't say it enough,

I would love to THANK YOU.

All of YOU,

who come by week after week,

and read what I have to say,

and see what I have to create.

I would still be doing it even if you didn't but 

you guys just make it that much more enjoyable.

Thank you for always making my days,

BEAUTIFUL!

Tide Pool Green Beachy Dresser Makeover

Good Morning my Beauties!
I have a fun Makeover for you guys this morning;

One that I did so long ago that I almost FORGOT about it.

 This was how it started.

An Older dark pine with a laminate top. 

I started on it as soon as we got from Spring Break......Yeah that's right; 

You heard me.......SPRING break...

On Friday my kids go on SUMMER break.

I told you I almost forgot about it.

ANYWHOOOOOO.....being inspired by our spring break vacation and 

the beach, I decided to go with a beachy feel.

I custom mixed up some green and green blue that I named Tide Pool Greens.

I painted it on the dresser and wet blended the drawers and the top with the lighter

green.

Once it was dried I waxed and buffed the whole thing.

 

For the handles I simply pulled off the back plates on the old hardware to give

it a little more updated modern feel. 

It went perfect with the Original Acrylic Painting I had painted

when we got home from vacation. 

The colors and theme of it all went together.

My painting "looking down or out" sat perched 

perfectly on top of the Tide Pool Green Beachy dresser.

While I kept the painting for myself (I couldn't let her go yet)

The dresser sold right away.

So someone besides me was feeling a bit beachy too.!

I hope you enjoyed the latest makeover.

Make sure you link up at our Something To Talk about Link Party that goes up 

Every Monday Morning.

Until Next time,

Go Make someones day BEAUTIFUL! 

Finished Tiny Half Bathroom (powder room) Remodel.

 Good Morning my Beauties!

I am finally showing you the full Reveal of our Teeny Tiny Itsy Bitsy Half Bath Makeover.

If you don't recall the Before post is HERE

In the video you can see me not only GROUTING..but SINGING while I grout.

Please remember that I do not claim to have the best singing voice..or the best lyrics

but I do love working on projects and so I sing when I work! :)

When I left you last time

I was JUST getting to the grouting.

so it looked like THIS...

 That meant it was time to mix up the unsanded grout.

I read the instructions to get the proper consistency 

and started mixing.

 My daughter even wanted to get in on the "girl power" and helped 

me mix.

Its a really good arm workout.

Once the grout had set and stirred again it was time to finally start.

Here I am like in the video troweling on the grout.

You use the float to push the grout down into all the little spaces. The float has a tapered edge that you then use to scrape across the top of the tiles to make sure you don't waste too much grout on the top of the tiles. Since the bathroom is so tiny it only took about 45 minutes for me to grout the whole thing. After waiting the recommended time you then wipe the tiles with a damp...almost DRY sponge...You don't want a ton of water you are just trying to make sure the grout is good and down between and that you are getting the majority off of the top of the tiles.

Here you can see the above the sponge spot that had been WIPED and the below which had not.

After you are all done wiping and you look carefully that you didn't miss any spots you then have to be patient and WAIT. 

You can use a dry cloth to lightly buff the tiles to get any additional residue off the tiles 

but you need to stay off a couple days to let the grout cure.

You also have to let it cure for the sealer. 

Since this is a busy bathroom I wanted to make sure that it got a good sealer and did two coats.

It will help keep that grout cleaner; for longer.

Once that was done it was time to start putting the bathroom BACK together.

With some help from the HUBBY of course!

 Here he is putting up the new trim before we could install the new

toilet and sink.

Once the toilet and sink were in there would be no way to get trim back behind it.

He did an amazing job with the trim that I painted 

and then he could install the new low flow toilet and

sink vanity base.

Then it was on to the vessel sink and faucet.

The only hiccup we had at this part is that the faucet we purchased came with a Regular drain. 

Vessel sinks do not have overflows so those types of drains don't work.

We needed a vessel sink drain. 

So we had to run to the store mid project and buy a $15 vessel sink drain.

There always has to be ONE of those kind of issues when working on a project...:)

Once all the fixtures were installed and NO leaks it was time for me to put the finishing touches on the bathroom.

I had never realized that our biggest issue was going to be a mirror.

because the bathroom is so small and we have to have the sink close to the wall there

were only a few choices for a mirror above the sink that wouldn't look Weird.

We chose an oval mirror that could give us the height we wanted and also be centered over the sink.

What we also didn't think about with a vessel is???

WHERE DOES THE SOAP GO???

I was freaking a little after all the planning I had done on this project

that something as little as soap would cause such a fit.

Hubby to the rescue.

We hit a local decor store and found a cute little shelf

for right under the mirror.

It was the exact width of the sink base and fit my eclectic style that 

I love. 

I didn't want the bathroom to be totally MODERN since the vanity and vessel sink 

lean that direction, so I had picked the faucet to soften that.

The oval beveled mirror and little shelf added to that.

It was finally becoming the bathroom I dreamed of.

So here it is...

I had a HECK of a time photographing this room since it is such a small space.

So I hope you can see the difference it made.

Every time I walk in this room I smile.

That tile makes me happy and the fact that its finally 

DONE

makes me even happier!

Until next time;

Go make someones day Beautiful!

And don't forget to link up to the

Be~YOU~tiful Link Party going on now!~

Be~YOU~tiful LINK party and FEAUTURES!

Hello!!!  Welcome to another Be~YOU~tiful link party and features!

Crazy busy town around here trying to find furniture...

putting away christmas stuff, rearranging the house

and working on projects.

The latest project was my

Old stereo Cabinet turned vintage bar!

You can see that HERE.

Today Melody will be picking out the features for this week!

and let me just say...I did NOT Pay her to say all those nice 

things about me!

She seriously made me blush!

This week it's my turn to pick favorites.  First, since this is my first time hosting,  some of you may not know my amazingly talented from Karin from Art Is Beauty.  Not only is Karin very talented beautiful and extremely sweet, she has a great eye for furniture and shares my love of giving old, vintage pieces new life.  

Here are a few examples of her beautiful work.

She's amazing, right?!  Anyway, enough about us, I want to share my favorites from last weeks link up. 

I was thrilled to see all the great projects and it was hard to pick!

First up I really loved what Doreen of Altered Artworks did with this desk she turned into a beverage station.

Next up Becca from Ivy & Co. gave this valet chair an adorable makeover.  I'm in love with that fabric!

And then there's this beauty from Shelly of Shizzle Design.  I love this pretty in pink French provincial highboy!  

I could go on and on for awhile about all your gorgeous projects!  I can't wait to see what you have in store for us this week!!

Thanks for stopping by and partying with Karin and I!!

Melody

 Now lets see what you have been working on!

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Vintage Bike Advertisement from an Old FREE window.

  Good Morning my Beauties! 

School is back in session and I already feel like a broken record.

The word BUSY has been efficiently added back into the school year vocabulary.

The kids are getting back into their routines, the hubby into his and me into mine.

Which means I am bustin my bottom to get stuff done for the booth.

Summer is pretty slow for sales so I was able to enjoy that (well actually we did a TON of work around the house so I don't know if ENJOY would be the word...:))

But now its back to Business.

I have trying to figure out what to do with all those free windows I scored this summer while we were camping in Pentwater.

I have made a few fun HOME signs and stuff but was looking to do something different.

 I mixed up some custom paint and just kind of slapped it on the window. Knowing I would be scrubbing both sides of the window before I did anything.

 Once I had cleaned both sides of the window I flipped it over and decided to do a reverse stencil.

You see I have this AMAZING lady that makes AMAZING stencils and I have been DYING 

to put the Vintage Bike advertisement from the GRAPHICS FAIRY on something.

I didn't however want to HAND Transfer it like I have before.

So I asked her if she cut one for me.

SHE DID! 

I am not kidding you when I tell you my TOES curled when I saw the stencil.

I was so EXCITED with the detail she was able to keep while making this intricate stencil.

If you need a stencil made Loren is your Gal.

You can find her at BROWN BAG STENCIL CO. 

I laid the stencil on mirror image

so that when I painted on the  back of the glass

it would read correctly once I flipped the window around.

 When the paint was dry, I used a spray poly to cover the whole thing. It gives the window and even more vintage FROSTED feel while also helping to protect and seal the paint.

Here it is hanging up at my booth at Changing Thymes Grandville.

Its so hard to get a good picture with the glass reflecting everything in site.

But I hope you can see how vintage and fun it turned out.

I honestly haven't had this much fun with a stencil in a long time.

Now I am just afraid I am going to run out of WINDOWS!!!!

ALSO, Later this week I will be doing a GIVEAWAY.
The winner will get a $50 credit to Brown Bag Stencil Co!!!
Head over NOW to ENTER...
You can Enter HERE!!
You don't want to miss it!

I hope you enjoyed this fun tutorial.

I just wish I could get a better picture of that darn GLASS :)

Until next time.

Go make someones day BEAUTIFUL!

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