furniture Painting
Progress at the Workshop
I’ve risen up from the blog underworld. That’s the place you go, when you haven’t blogged in a few days. Trust me I have not been sitting idol. One exciting development, is that I completed a drapery (woo-hoo!) panel and love how it turned out! I made this with painters drop cloth and velvet. One…
Read MoreMiss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint Is Here!
Well, the baby has arrived! The “nursery” isn’t quite ready, but that isn’t stopping me from shipping orders out! (you can see my cabinets are not quite finished!) If I’m as excited as I am, I can’t imagine how Marian, (Miss Mustard Seed) must feel! Oh, dang! Isn’t this a pretty sight? I’m checking and…
Read MorePainting Shop Cabinets, Day 3
Can you get carpal tunnel syndrome from painting? Or is this simply old age? I’m sticking with carpal tunnel syndrome. Sounds much more exotic! The shop looks more like a chemistry lab than an antique shop. Hopefully this will pass. Over the weekend, I painted the doors and drawers of the cabinets with a new…
Read MoreWeekend Plans (painting cabinets with chalk paint)
After friends and I converge at the Mes Amis Antique Fair in Old Roseville, Saturday morning, I will get back to painting my very long stretch of cabinets, at the shop. Just the drawers and doors are left to paint and wax (with chalk paint), but there are a lot of them! The wood laminate…
Read MoreThe Miss Mustard Seed Paint Store Is Open For Business!
Just like many of you, I’m anxiously awaiting my Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint delivery! Knowing that it won’t be long, I thought I had better open my On-Line Shop and be ready to roll! So, (think trumpets, drum roll, dancing dogs, roaring crowds) …. All orders placed by November 1st, will receive a 15%…
Read MoreDreaming of My Work Shop
As the weeks pass, the vision I have for The Treasured Home gets clearer. It’s a slow process, but what’s important to me, is that the vision is as uniquely “mine” as I can possibly manage. I saw this image in my on line adventures and love the table. Mr. Wonderful is going to make…
Read MoreMy First Milk Paint Project
Here we are, at the highly anticipated milk paint reveal! I’m going to ask you to use your imagination and think of her sitting in a beautiful room! According to Marian, aka Miss Mustard Seed, you never know what to expect when painting a piece of furniture with Milk paint. I told her that my…
Read MoreLove This Color!! (Miss Mustard Seed’s Shutter Grey)
I found this beautiful antique dresser on Craig’s List. I removed the mirror and drawers, but you can see the gorgeous lines of the piece. I’ve been looking for just the right piece to take my maiden MMS Milk Paint voyage with and I think this is a great candidate. I could have added an…
Read MoreExperimenting with Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint
Hello Dear Blog Sisters , Thanks so much for all of your wonderful support, of The Blog Sister project! I was thrilled! If you didn’t get there yesterday, check out The Blog Sisters page! Now, I’ve been experimenting a bit with my new Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paints. It almost never fails that furniture, that…
Read MorePainting Furniture with Latex (Sprayer vs. Roller)
Greetings, Blog Sister!, Since I am painting a fair amount of furniture these days, it was time to do a latex paint-off! Sprayer vs. Roller. Well you all saw last week’s fun, hot pink masterpiece, painted by Mr. Wonderful, with his manly HVLP paint sprayer. It turned out beautifully, with a smooth, shiny surface, using…
Read MoreSpray Painting Like the Pro’s, Part Two!
How much thriftier than free can you possibly get? True confessions time. I picked a table out of the garbage dumpster once, when we had our San Francisco condo. One darling little table, came home to be saved by the master of furniture repair projects. We have a half-house, giving these pieces new life…another chance…
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