Hope you’re all enjoying time with family and are blessed with beautiful weather this weekend.

Just wanted to share a few of our upcoming workshops.

Girl’s Night Out Paint Party Class $75 

Grab a small project from home such as a lamp, a bird house, a jewelry box, some candle sticks, a picture frame… then bling it up while you experiment with American Paint Company’s Paints, Glazes, Metallic Mica Powders, American Grit and Finishes.  For all the details, click HERE.

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Learn How to Paint a Piece of Your Furniture Shizzle Style  $125

Learn how to transform your furniture Shizzle Style!  In this five hour workshop, you’ll learn our personal tips and tricks to how Cathy and I layer our paint colors, distress our furniture, wax & buff our own painted pieces.  Grab a small piece of furniture from home and learn how to transform it into a one-of-a-kind piece of art (nightstand, a chair, an end table, plant stand, large mirror, stool… ) For all the details, click HERE.

Spring – Early Summer 2014 Shizzle Class Schedule

• June 14 (11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) – Paint a Piece of Your Furniture Shizzle Style featuring American Paint Company’s Chalk & Clay Paints

• June 18 (6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.) – PRIVATE Party (S. Kidds) $75

• July 16 (1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.) Intro to Chalk & Clay Painting, Shizzle Style $65

• July 16 (6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.) – Girl’s Night Out Paint Party $75

• July 18 (11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) – Paint a Piece of Your Furniture Shizzle Style $125 featuring American Paint Company’s Chalk & Clay Paints

To see the most recent list of our classes (in case I fall behind on updating this post, visit our Online Shizzle Shop)

For inspiration on what to paint, visit our Painted Furniture Makeover Gallery HERE.

Giving many thanks to everyone who is or has served our great country!!

a hui hou!!

Shelly Andrade

My sister Cathy and I continue to be blessed in so many ways through our work here at Shizzle Design.  The best part of what we do are the friends we meet and the fun we have along the way.

We want everyone to feel at home while they’re here while giving them the confidence and knowledge they’ll need to create beautiful finishes on just about anything once they get back home.

The awesome people we’ve met at our last few workshops and the fabulous pieces they created are no exception.  We had a blast, as we always do, and were blown away watching the “before’s” transform into one-of-a-kind pieces of art.  Enjoy as you scroll through these awesome Shizzle Style makeovers!  Sit back.  Relax.  This post is LOADED with tons of inspirational pictures from our last workshops.

Nightstand painted in Freedom Road & Navajo White 

 Drawer with Beach Glass & Home Turf

Beach Glass over Freedom Road

 base coat of Freedom Road

 Home Plate over Wild Horses

Desert Cactus over Wild Horses, Heavily Distressed

Nightstand getting a base of Freedom Road

Base Coat of Fireworks Red

Beach Glass

Firework’s Red

Beach Glass ~ Home Plate

Wild Horses

Desert Cactus Wash over Wild Horses

Thin coat of Fireworks Red over Wild Horses

Fireworks Red

Smoke Signal over Freedom Road

Vintage Table in Rushmore, Tea Cup & Clear Wax

Small Bombay plant stand painted in Beach Glass over Freedom Road sealed with Dark Wax

Large ornate vintage mirror painted in Surfboard, Peacock, Home Plate & Clear & Dark Wax

Table is getting a base of Home Turf

Sewing Table in Navajo White & Beach Glass

End Table in Beach Glass & Orange Grove

paint is drying in this picture and it has not yet been distressed or waxed

Table painted in Rushmore & Tea Cup

Busy Little Bees during Furniture Workshop

Oak File Cabinet in Lincoln’s Hat & Firework’s Red

Surfboard, Peacock, Home Plate, Clear & Dark Wax

Navajo White over Freedom Road

Firework’s Red

Navajo White over Beach Glass

This looks more like Dollar Bill than Beach Glass, but I think she actually used Beach Glass on this table.

 Navajo White & Rushmore

 Home Turf

Base Coat of Freedom Road

Chair is getting a base of Surfboard

 Home Turf & Beach Glass

 Applying a Base Layer of Home Turf

 Table in Firework’s Red and Beach Glass

 Peacock, Home Turf, Shoreline, Bordello & Momma’s Lipstick

 Firework’s Red and Beach Glass

Chandelier in Peacock, Home Turf, Shoreline, Momma’s Lipstick & Bordello

I’ll share a tutorial on how this chandelier was transformed into a solar piece you can use anywhere in the yard ~ stay tuned for all the details!

Ready to have some fun?

 It’s not too late!

 Join Shelly & Cathy on…

June 5 Girl’s Night Out Paint Party

Play around with all our products including metallic mica’s glazes… on a small table top project you bring in from home (Jewelry Box, Frame, Candle Sticks, Hardware, Lamp…)

June 14 ~ Paint a Piece of Your Furniture

Shizzle Style Chalk & Clay Painting Workshop

Did you know…

• Shizzle Design is a small family owned business in Jenison, Michigan.  My sister Cathy and I work, paint, ship and teach our chalk and clay paint workshops out of the same space where we paint all our furniture.  We are truly humbled to be known as a leader in the world of chalk and clay paints.
• Cathy and I empower DIY’ers by sharing our years of experience.  Stop in for paint and we’ll offer you honest and knowledgeable answers for all your chalk and clay paint needs.
• Did you know we are not paid employees of American Paint Company?  It typically takes me 10 hours to publish one of my blog posts.  Everything from shooting the photographs, writing the content, editing, cropping… is given freely.  The only way we make money is if someone purchases paint, workshops or painted furniture from us.  If you enjoy the information you get in our website, please share and let us know.
• We are so blessed to have taught people from all over the United States and Canada.  Join us for one of our super fun hands-on chalk and clay paint workshops.  Learn in our casual & relaxed environment.  Click Paint Workshops to see a list of current classes offered.
• Subscribe to Shizzle Design for tips, tutorials, ideas, pictures, videos for our furniture painted in all natural chalk and clay based mineral paints.
• Did you know that you can get these sent directly to your inbox and that it’s FREE?  It is ~ what are you waiting for?  Enter your email in the right hand column of our blog to stay in the loop.
• We have a Shizzle Design Facebook Page.  We share all sorts tips, ideas, photos EVERY DAY and offer special deals (which you’ll only know about if you’ve Liked our Facebook Page).
• Pin our posts on Pinterest ~ Find all sorts of inspiration here.
• We sell our painted furniture in our Shizzle Design Paint Studio at 2018 Chicago Drive, Jenison, MI 49428 and at Not So Shabby Antiques and Fine Furniture at 2975 West Shore Drive in Holland, Michigan
• Shizzle Design is an Authorized Retailer for American Paint Company Paints.  We offer a large inventory of chalk and clay paint and supplies at our Shizzle Design Paint Shop /Studio,  2018 Chicago Drive, Jenison, MI  49428.  We also stock several other shops in the greater Grand Rapid’s area, to find out where, click LOCATIONS.  Not from Michigan?  No worries, we ship paint and paint supplies worldwide through our Online Shizzle Shop.

For more Chalk & Clay Painted Furniture ideas, tips, tutorials & inspiration, click:

 Shizzle Style Painted Furniture Makeovers

 Shizzle Tips, How To Tutorials & Video’s

 Funky Finishes

Linking up to these GREAT Parties!

Domestically Speaking – The Power of Paint Party

The Shabby Creek Cottage – Transformation Thursday

Miss Mustardseed – Furniture Feature Friday

Redoux – Friday Link Up Party

Homespun Happenings – Rustic Restorations Weekend

Funky Junk Interiors – Saturday Night Special

Silver Pennies – Silver Pennies Sundays

Knick of Time Interiors – Knick of Time Tuesday

a hui hou ~ Shelly

Calling all DIY’ers to Caledonia, Michigan!

 This is NOT a typical chalk and clay paint demo where I stand on stage to demonstrate FOR you …

YOU get to do Experiment, Be the Artist, Get Messy with Me!!

 Nation’s #1

You’ll also be able to check out all the other unique treasures created by some of the best  re-purposing artists and vendors in West Michigan including 

Karin of Art is Beauty 

Laura of Laura Leona’s Cottage Garden 

has also just added a booth here!!  Woot Woot!!  Stop in and check it out!!

There will be many more vendors setting up outdoors

for the  French Flea Market

I’m closing our Shizzle Design Paint Studio Saturday morning so I can participate so we can participate in this event.

If you can’t make it out to Caledonia, no worries ~

Click HERE for directions,  hours for all four Shizzle Design Locations