Peaceful Melody

I looked up the meaning of the little girl's name to whom this vanity was traveling and turns out Aija means melody in Latvian.  We sure hope she is enjoying her pinky pink vanity!

Mom mentioned she loved peace signs and L happened to find this fabric!

Color Me Surprised, Revisited

Color Me Surprised sold a while back and the sweet family was looking for a fridge to match.  They were very patient through all our travels and finally got it today!  We beefed up the original kitchen too, poor thing took a beating on the sales floor!  Who can blame the kids for wanting to play with it, it is adorable!

Busy Busy!

We have been busy over here in the Gourmet Giggles studio.  Besides organizing and cleaning out to get ready for our holiday season, we have been working on some "And More" pieces.  We always get asked if we do adult pieces and besides Chilled Out, some cake plates and some jewelry dishes, we really haven't.  So, we decided to try our hand at it.  So far the pieces we have done are in our own homes, but for the right offer we are always willing to let them go.....well, maybe :-).

Here are a few shots of the pieces we have done so far:

Antique buffet acquired on L's southwestern travels this summer

Team member L's breakfast table

of course our model had to get in on the shoot

This dresser was purchased at an estate sale last weekend.  A little paint and there she is!

We love the look of the drawer sides being painted.  Eventually when the right fabric or paper is found for this color the drawers will be lined inside as well.

I fell in love with these lines

 And these lines :-)

Cherry On Top

We rearranged our space and set up over at ReRuns 4 Wee Ones in Valparaiso, so go check it out!  We have decided to take an approach in which we rotate our pieces of furniture after a few weeks and leave fewer in there.  Stop in and let us know what you think.  This new arrangement brings us to Cherry On Top.  These are the first two pieces we made specifically to put in Sarah's shop.  And since that was the case, we felt their photo shoot ought to happen there.  The name, as always, came to us for a number of reasons.  The fabric, to us, looks like piles of ice cream with cherries on top and this sweet little set really is the cherry on top.  It is a 2 piece set, but ideal for someone who has limited space. They are just slightly larger than one of our typical pieces when set side by side.  So your kids can enjoy the versatility of 2 pieces (ie. not fighting over the kitchen space) yet they won't take up too much room in your house.

New table!

fabric covered cork board

cutting board work space along side the cooking space

metal pan for magnets

We left the hinges on the side of the door so it can be an oven, a fridge, a microwave, whatever your little love wants it to be!

sink and storage

message center - there is a cord, just not pictured :-)

 chalkboard/clipboard

 Aren't they cute?

Sweet Pea

Meet Sweet Pea.  We love how her oven door turned out!  It is our favorite oven door so far.  That got us asking ourselves, "Which piece is our favorite?".  With each new piece we exclaim, "This is my new favorite!".  But we realized we do something new and different that we love on each kitchen and it isn't that we love any of them more than the rest, but we love something about each one.  We will have to post a blog post soon about the sections of each piece that is our favorite, but for now I need you to see Sweet Pea.  She is just precious, and coincidentally she went to a home in which the little girl's nickname is "sweet pea". That happened purely on accident which makes me feel like it was meant to be.

I love this fabric and this oven door!

 Message center with phone and chalkboard/clipboard

Her back splash has a towel hook and a container for whatever her little heart desires.  I figured chalk and message center stuff, or cooking tools like spoons, whisks and spatulas.

I have been wanting to do a square sink for some time and this was the perfect piece.

metal tins for magnets

we made 5 magnets using the fabric from the curtain

 

my grandma sent me a bunch of these knobs a while back and we love using them for towel holders.  Aren't they sweet?

 

And of course, the spoon :-)

Annie Sloan - our new BFF

We are soooo excited to start using Annie Sloan paint!  We have always been happy with our final product, but we are excited to get our hands dirty with this fantastic paint and see the difference in our end result.

Finn And Stella

Oooooh, Finn and Stella (aka Dame Gourmet) was so much fun to work on!  I love the names of the sweet littles that have graced this piece though I have, in my head, named her Dame Gourmet because she is so elegant and delightful!  We love that the mama who ordered this piece wanted it to fit in to the main part of their house.  It was a bit of a branch out for us since it was black and one member of the team decided to abandon the other for the vast expanses of Alaska. (I kid, I kid).  Not to worry though, she came back just in time to smash the spoon and give me some tips on doing it myself.  Next time I will be better prepared :-).  I have to admit, I am also not a seamstress, so I enlisted my mother in law to sew the curtain - thanks Cindy!  It truly was a village effort.

Chalkboard

Love the shiny bowl!

We loved the fabric so much we made a magnetic clipboard

The coils kept disappearing into the piece, so they got a 'hot' treatment with some red

What do you think - different for GG huh?!