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I want to let everyone know that our new blog for Shabby Coast Cottage is now up!

http://shabbycoastcottage.blogspot.com/

Please come by and visit, comment and follow us!!!

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We are gearing up to open the Shabby Coast Cottage next month!

This week I have been working on painting the side room…

first it needed a fresh coat of white paint on the ceiling, walls and floor!

All the wood in the cottage is Heart Pine and is almost 100 years old!

 Then I knew that I wanted to do something fun and different on the floors…

after searching the web for inspiration, I came across a fabulous blog - Jones Design Company and she has a tutorial on painting a design on a wall.  I loved it and thought that it would look great on the floor!

So I enlarged the template that she provides to  16 inches and cut it out of cardboard.

and then i spent the next 2 days on the floor!

I primed the floor lightly so that the grain would still show through and used Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Paris Gray for the design…

 I seriously would have lost my mind with painting a smaller design on walls! Kudos to anyone that can do that!

 After I got it painted, I sanded lightly in some spots and then waxed with a floor wax!

I am hoping that it will age naturally and distress beautifully!

and now a little glimpse into the disaster that this room was just a few months ago…

It was like a Horders Episode…. very scarrrryyyyy…….

And now, The room all Painted and Happy!!

We can’t wait to get the other rooms done and all the goodies loaded in!

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I participate in the following link parties:

 A Beach Cottage / At the Picket Fence / Be Different Act Normal / Between Naps on the Porch /BoogieBoard Cottage /  Bowl Full of Lemons  / Centsational Girl / Cherished Treasures / Debbiedoos /DIY Showoff    / DIY by Design / Domestically Speaking /Flamingo Toes  / Funky Junk Interiors  / French Country Cottage /  Faded Charm  Cottage /Fingerprints on the Fridge  / Get your Craft On / Home Stories A to Z /   House of Hepworths / I heart Naptimes  / Miss Mustard Seed / My Romantic Home /  My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia / Savy Southern Style   /Shabby Chic Cottage  / Sas Interiors / Sugar and Dots  / Sisters of the Wild West / Simply Designing / Shabby Chic Cottage /Somewhat Simple /  Southern Hospitality/ Sugar Bee Crafts / Sugar and Dots / Sumos Sweet Stuff / Thrifty Decor Chic  /Tip Junkie  /  Today’s Creative Blog / The House in the Roses / The Girl Creative  / The Shabby Nest / Tator Tots and Jello / Under the Table and Dreaming / Whipperberry

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Sale ends on Friday at midnight CST.

Things are slowly coming together at Shabby Coast Cottage!

 We are loading up on lots of vintage finds, restored and painted furniture, paintings and jewelry!

Our hangtags have come in and I can’t wait to hang them on all the goodies!

Slowly, we are getting there!

We are still hoping for an opening date in October… a little more painting, a little more fluff and buff and we will be ready to open! We are so excited to see the little Cottage coming to life!

One Saturday while thrifting with one of my best friends -who I call Crabb, because that is her last name and for 20 years that is all i have ever called her… I actually forget she has a first name! Anyway, I came across an old beat up dresser that they wanted 45 bucks for. … Well, Crabb being the professional thrifter and retired Auctioneer… talked them down to $25 using her southern charm! I brought it home and painted her up!

 I also painted the Beach sign on an old fence part… it will go in our Shabby Coast Cottage Shop when we open!

I love this little Vintage Florida Mermaid!

 The Drawer Hardware turned out fabulous painted white! 

 This piece will be available at Shabby Coast Cottage when we open!

Please join our new Facebook Page for the Cottage!

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I participate in the following link parties:

 A Beach Cottage / At the Picket Fence / Be Different Act Normal / Between Naps on the Porch /BoogieBoard Cottage /  Bowl Full of Lemons  / Centsational Girl / Cherished Treasures / Debbiedoos /DIY Showoff    / DIY by Design / Domestically Speaking /Flamingo Toes  / Funky Junk Interiors  / French Country Cottage /  Faded Charm  Cottage /Fingerprints on the Fridge  / Get your Craft On / Home Stories A to Z /   House of Hepworths / I heart Naptimes  / Miss Mustard Seed / My Romantic Home /  My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia / Savy Southern Style   /Shabby Chic Cottage  / Sas Interiors / Sugar and Dots  / Sisters of the Wild West / Simply Designing / Shabby Chic Cottage /Somewhat Simple /  Southern Hospitality/ Sugar Bee Crafts / Sugar and Dots / Sumos Sweet Stuff / Thrifty Decor Chic  /Tip Junkie  /  Today’s Creative Blog / The House in the Roses / The Girl Creative  / The Shabby Nest / Tator Tots and Jello / Under the Table and Dreaming / Whipperberry

I am so excited! I have finally decided to open up our Cottage! The focus will be on  Shabby Coastal Style Furniture, Home Accessories and Jewelry … and of course my Annabellea Jewelry line!

On the back of our property, or the Front, depending on which street you are on… is a cottage house… about 900 sq ft. and an awesome porch. It was built in 1937 and is heart pine floor walls and ceilings! Fabulous wood that is sometimes hard to get a nail into!

I purchased the cottage and an acre of land as a single woman in 1997 – it is about 4 miles from the Gulf of Mexico near Seaside and Grayton Beach …and just a couple blocks from Eden State Park in Historic Point Washington. I was so happy living in my little Beach Cottage even though it had no air conditioning or heating for the first 2 years! There were also dirt roads back then, that have been paved in recent years.

Here is the front in her current state, she needs painting and some landscaping and some styling with pretty things and we’ll be good to go!

When got married we built in the back and the cottage became my studio, but after bringing our daughter home from Guatemala, I wanted to be able to work in the house and moved my jewelry business into the house.

Then my sweet daddy passed away and the cottage became a storage house for all of his things… and my framing supplies… and my thrift shop finds…and things piled up more… and more… until it looked like an episode from horders! Seriously. no. seriously…see… it’s okay, you can gasp…

So little by little these last few months i have been sorting through things and have cleared a pathway, yes, it was that bad! But it is like going to a thrift store everyday!

I found this Pie safe that i can’t wait to paint and this vintage Blue Pottery Crock…

and these fabulous vintage suitcases

and this dresser that i think was my maternal grandmothers, i need to check on that story before i go and sell it…

i have been having so much fun uncovering things long lost…

i will be blogging about the progress and all the treasures i am finding! 

When will we be open? i don’t know, i want to set a date, but if i don’t make it i will feel like a failure… and really, why do that to myself?  Our Summer tourist season is almost over here in North Florida, so that pressure is off… So we will open when everything is ready!

I have set up a  Shabby Coast Cottage facebook page , so stop by and “like” it and you can follow all the progress!

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I participate in the following link parties:

 A Beach Cottage / At the Picket Fence / Be Different Act Normal / Between Naps on the Porch /BoogieBoard Cottage /  Bowl Full of Lemons  / Centsational Girl / Cherished Treasures / Debbiedoos /DIY Showoff    / DIY by Design / Domestically Speaking /Flamingo Toes  / Funky Junk Interiors  / French Country Cottage /  Faded Charm  Cottage /Fingerprints on the Fridge  / Get your Craft On / Home Stories A to Z /   House of Hepworths / I heart Naptimes  / Miss Mustard Seed / My Romantic Home /  My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia / Savy Southern Style   /Shabby Chic Cottage  / Sas Interiors / Sugar and Dots  / Sisters of the Wild West / Simply Designing / Shabby Chic Cottage /Somewhat Simple /  Southern Hospitality/ Sugar Bee Crafts / Sugar and Dots / Sumos Sweet Stuff / Thrifty Decor Chic  /Tip Junkie  /  Today’s Creative Blog / The House in the Roses / The Girl Creative  / The Shabby Nest / Tator Tots and Jello / Under the Table and Dreaming / Whipperberry

I did it! I made my first Roadside Rescue! I found a broken chair with a great back… It also has wonderful legs that i will be using in another project!

The back had broken away from the chair and was missing a side… it might have been there in the trash, but i forgot to look in my slightly embarassed state of actually taking somebody’s trash, my heart was pounding and i was hurrying to get it in the car before someone saw me! lol

I took off the one side, used wood putty to fill the holes,

sanded and primed…

Then i spray painted with my new fav color Rust-oleum Eden Green that I also used on my easy canvas project. After it dried, i distressed using sandpaper and my little Dremmel Drill that i use for my jewelry, this made it easy to sand in the openings.

I nailed a sawtooth hanger on the back .

I toyed with the idea of adding tiny nails on it and hanging keys in the entry or even plates… but the plates hide the pretty lines…

So then it went up on the hutch…

Then i hung it over the kitchen sink…

Now it is happy in the foyer! Am i the only one that constantly moves stuff around?

Notice my Rusty Tools that i painted in the same green color! I have an awesome rusty tool collection that i am about to unpack from the back shed and hang. I can’t decide if i want to paint the tools or leave them rusty…. decisions, decisions!

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I participate in the following link parties:

 A Beach Cottage / At the Picket Fence / Be Different Act Normal / Between Naps on the Porch /BoogieBoard Cottage /  Bowl Full of Lemons  / Centsational Girl / Cherished Treasures / Debbiedoos /DIY Showoff    / DIY by Design / Domestically Speaking /Flamingo Toes  / Funky Junk Interiors  / French Country Cottage /  Faded Charm  Cottage /Fingerprints on the Fridge  / Get your Craft On / Home Stories A to Z /   House of Hepworths / I heart Naptimes  / Miss Mustard Seed / My Romantic Home /  My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia / Savy Southern Style   /Shabby Chic Cottage  / Sas Interiors / Sugar and Dots  / Sisters of the Wild West / Simply Designing / Shabby Chic Cottage /Somewhat Simple /  Southern Hospitality/ Sugar Bee Crafts / Sugar and Dots / Sumos Sweet Stuff / Thrifty Decor Chic  /Tip Junkie  /  Today’s Creative Blog / The House in the Roses / The Girl Creative  / The Shabby Nest / Tator Tots and Jello / Under the Table and Dreaming / Whipperberry

This is one of those projects that you start out with one idea in mind and end up on a totally different path…

I can’t be the only one that does that , right? RIGHT?

So , I’m not going to give away my initial idea, because i still hope to accomplish it, but let’s just say this is what i started with…

a starfish skeleton made from wrapping newspaper around and then tying it with twine .

This is where my mind wandered off from my original plan, call it impatience, I am easily distracted…

anyway, i took my drop cloth scraps and wrapped the starfish using my glue gun to secure it …

then i wrapped it with thread , really sloppy…

i started out sewing on the glass pearls, but again, my impatience got the best of me and i used the glue gun to set the rest …

It looks so cute tucked in the old wooden tray on the table with the Painted Drop Cloth Runner.

I may really be going drop cloth crazy, just saying…

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I participate in the following link parties:

 A Beach Cottage / At the Picket Fence / Be Different Act Normal / Between Naps on the Porch /BoogieBoard Cottage /  Bowl Full of Lemons  / Centsational Girl / Cherished Treasures / Debbiedoos /DIY Showoff    / DIY by Design / Domestically Speaking /Flamingo Toes  / Funky Junk Interiors  /  French Country Cottage /Faded Charm Cottage /Fingerprints on the Fridge  / Get your Craft On / Home Stories A to Z /   House of Hepworths / I heart Naptimes  / Miss Mustard Seed / My Romantic Home /  My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia / Savy Southern Style   /Shabby Chic Cottage  / Sas Interiors / Sugar and Dots  / Sisters of the Wild West / Simply Designing / Shabby Chic Cottage /Somewhat Simple /  Southern Hospitality/ Sugar Bee Crafts / Sugar and Dots / Sumos Sweet Stuff / Thrifty Decor Chic  /Tip Junkie  /  Today’s Creative Blog / The House in the Roses / The Girl Creative  / The Shabby Nest / Tator Tots and Jello / Under the Table and Dreaming / Whipperberry

So After reading one of my Favorite Blogs- Funky Junk Interiors,

I found her wonderful post on how she paints Old Signs.

She was so inspiring I had to run outside and see what wood I could find to paint one for the Kitchen!

The only piece that I could find was a 1×4, a little smaller than I wanted, but fun to practice on!

I picked my 2 colors, I love these small samples from Home Depot for around a dollar each! I brushed each on being very sloppy and not covering the whole surface.

I printed out my letters in the size that i needed….

and I colored on the back with a pencil then flipped over and traced the letters. Then Painted in with Blue paint and sanded heavily to get the old look!

I hung it over the sink in the kitchen….

I love it so much!

We have an old Shrimper that sets up his roadside/bayside shrimp stand near our house and I have always loved his painted signs…

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I participate in the following link parties:

A Beach Cottage / At the Picket Fence / Be Different Act Normal / Between Naps on the Porch /BoogieBoard Cottage /  Bowl Full of Lemons  / Centsational Girl / Cherished Treasures / Debbiedoos /DIY Showoff    / DIY by Design / Domestically Speaking /Flamingo Toes  / Funky Junk Interiors  / Faded Charm Cottage /Fingerprints on the Fridge  / Get your Craft On / Home Stories A to Z /   House of Hepworths / I heart Naptimes  / Miss Mustard Seed / My Romantic Home /  My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia / Savy Southern Style   /Shabby Chic Cottage  / Sas Interiors / Sugar and Dots  / Sisters of the Wild West / Simply Designing / Shabby Chic Cottage /Somewhat Simple /  Southern Hospitality/ Sugar Bee Crafts / Sugar and Dots / Sumos Sweet Stuff / Thrifty Decor Chic  /Tip Junkie  /  Today’s Creative Blog / The House in the Roses / The Girl Creative  / The Shabby Nest / Tator Tots and Jello / Under the Table and Dreaming / Whipperberry