Ringing in the New Year with Banned Books
I’m pretty psyched about 2016! We’ve got BIG plans for this year…some plans I can’t write about yet, but others I can! After a comprehensive, two-day retreat with my management team (yes…we actually have one of those), we came up with...
A Sassy Shade of Green
The days of grey and white are over. Well…maybe not over, but taking a temporary back seat! Perhaps it’s the season; I always feel a bit bolder during the summer when the weather is warmer, the flowers are in full bloom and the sky is blue. Why...A Peacock Blue Beauty
I had to dust off my keyboard and computer screen, it’s been so long since I’ve written a blog post! The dust has settled on the new store opening in Old Town Monrovia and I feel as though I have regained my life back. As a result, I was able to tackle a...
The BIGGEST Paint Giveaway We’ve EVER had
It’s in less than a month…our first Annual knot too shabby BAZAAR of the year on April 4th from 9:00-3:00. From now until our last knot too shabby BAZAAR of the season on June 6th, you can enter to win over $2,000 worth of painting products! Our top 3...Designing a Disaster
I love talking to customers about Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint! Among the many descriptive qualities I use to describe the paint is, “you can paint a dresser with Milk Paint and by the time you are finished, it looks like it has been sitting in...Claw Foot Buffet
This is the first piece of furniture that we have tackled from our Farmhouse Salvage Project. In reality, this piece was just too big to move into storage. If had gone in the storage unit, it would’ve stayed in the storage unit for who knows how long. It took...Favorite Furniture of 2014
I’m not gonna lie…I’m kinda tired of seeing one blog post and facebook post about “the best of 2014.” I resolved that I wasn’t going to write a post like that. And, here I am narrowing down my favorite pieces of the year....A New Year, A New You!
I love a fresh start! A new year is such a great opportunity to re-charge your batteries…re-inspire your creativity…get re-motivated! Plus, the fact that everyone is on that same boat makes any ambition seem attainable! I took the last week of 2014 off to...Painting Parties
For the past 15 months, we have been seeking out a location for a second store front. I have looked at a dozen plus stores in Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, Alta Loma and Claremont. The first question a building owner or leasing agent asks is, “what do you...The Grand Farmhouse Project
It’s been almost three full weeks since we brought nearly a dozen truck loads of furniture and boxes to the shop from our Farmhouse Salvage Project. I am finally starting to get ahead on some of the cleaning and inventorying of new merchandise! In fact,...
#knottooshabbyfarmhouserescue
If you follow us on facebook and instagram, you’ve seen endless posts of our farmhouse rescue project over the past 10 days! It’s been a whirlwind of crawling through dusty spaces, navigating rodents and spiders, and doing back breaking loading and...Antique Hope Chest
I painted this antique hope chest in French Linen with a wash in Coco, details in Old White and finished with Miss Mustard Seed’s Antiquing and Clear Beeswax. To see all the process pictures, check out our photo-tutorial on facebook and the image gallery on the...MMS Milk Painted Quilt Cabinet
I’m getting my groove on for Christmas. We’ve been doing endless amounts of crafting, glittering and gluing! Have I ever mentioned how much I despise crafting? Sadly, our do-it-yourself mentality and clientele push us to create all of our own Christmas...Staging Furniture
We have been terrible about staging furniture! Half the time, something sells before I even get a good shot of a finished piece. The other half I don’t have any place to set up a staging area to make it look pretty on camera. It’s such a problem that...Gold Gilding Wax with Artissimo and Aubusson
Months and months ago, I picked up this vintage sideboard from an estate sale that Little Miss Clutter Buster was hosting. I love buying furniture from her estate sales because there is such a large crew of people working that I never have to load anything myself! đŸ™‚...Hiking in Boulder Colorado and Mixing Burgundy Chalk Paint®
October is going to be a crazy busy month for me! We have some extensive plans for our weekends this month, starting last weekend with a getaway to Colorado. My husband and I left the kids at home and went for the weekend to celebrate the wedding of one of my close...For the Love of White Pitchers
Quite some time ago, a customer came into the shop and asked if we had any vintage white pitchers. I smirked a bit and told her she would be hard pressed to find any white pitchers in the store because I have a bit of an obsession with them personally. I love how you...Party Rentals and Photo Props
I bet you didn’t know… …when I graduated from college, I wanted to start my own event planning business. It was called (only in my head because it never came to fruition) Ever After Weddings and Events. I loved event planning and went as far as...#knottooshabbyBAZAAR – SOLD OUT
I can’t believe it. This morning, I measured the lot, laid out the tent flags. Marked off spaces for vendors. We will have vendors taking up virtually all 10,000 square feet of the BAZAAR! Which makes this our first ever, SOLD OUT event! There are more than...
Painting Workshops
If you are hesitant to take a paintbrush to your much-loved furniture, we can help! Sign-up for one of our many in-store workshops or host one of your own!
"Open-Paint" Days
If you love to paint as much as us, then you will love our "open-paint" days!