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farmhouse table reveal & sealing chippy paint tutorial

The farmhouse table is finished and I’m so happy with how it turned out! If you remember, it was painted brown. I could see some original green paint showing through and I was hoping to reveal that through some chippy Farmhouse White MMS Milk Paint and that is exactly what happened. If you missed the other posts about this table transformation, you can check them out here… Prepping the table for paint Hemp Oiling the top & applying the second coat of milk paint Distressing & getting the “chippy look” Now, the table was distressed and ready for a finish. I chose Tough Coat, since that is our best finish for sealing in chippiness, so the paint doesn’t continue to flake. Here is a tutorial showing how I sealed the table base… This table was a great piece and I’m glad I was able to give it a fresh look

May 2, 2018 34 Comments

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distressing the farmhouse table | all about the “chippy look”

I hope you had a wonderful weekend! Jeff was on a backpacking trip, so I busied myself with the boys and doing some work around the house. The combination of warmer weather and creative inspiration from Junk Bonanza has me excited and motivated to cross things off the to-do list and start to add some more layers to rooms that have the “bones” in place. I’ll share more about what I’ve been working on in future posts, but today, I wanted to share the next step in the Farmhouse White table makeover. After the second coat of MMS Milk Paint in Farmhouse White (you can read about that HERE), I let it dry and waited to see if it would chip as I thought it would. It did! And the chipping was perfect, because it was pulling up the not-s0-pretty brown paint to reveal that yummy green, which looks to

April 30, 2018 9 Comments

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farmhouse white table progress

Remember this table? Well, I got around to working on it again over the past couple of days. This is how it looked when I bought it… I knew that I wanted to paint the base, because brown-painted furniture isn’t really my thing. I also wanted to smooth out the top and hydrate it with Hemp Oil. I wrote about sanding and prepping the top in THIS POST. With the top smoothed out, I just applied a generous coat of MMS Hemp Oil to bring out the richness of the wood. Call me nutty, but I love all of the scratches and imperfections. You can tell this table has been a hard worker! Now, I needed to deal with painting the base. It’s wearing a drab coat of brown paint, but under that, I can see a yummy green. I was hoping I could apply a couple coats of Farmhouse

April 26, 2018 14 Comments

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Say Hello to Aviary & dresser reveal

Since the very beginning, I’ve asked you to say “hello” to each new color I add to the MMS Milk Paint line. Now, for the 27th time, I’m asking you to “say hello” to Aviary! Aviary is a smoky blue/gray with green undertones. It was designed to match the paint on an antique French birdcage I purchased a couple of years ago. It was a cool piece, but I bought it mostly because I loved the color. As I was thinking about a new color to add to the line, to replace Dried Lavender, I kept coming back to this one, knowing it would look lovely in milk paint. Like many of our colors, it’s a chameleon. It looks gray next to blue and blue next to gray. It looks light and soft next to darker colors and rich and smoky next to whites. Here is how it compares to

April 17, 2018 70 Comments

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painting & finishing the aviary dresser

The last time you saw this dresser, it was sanded down and prepped for painting… In case you missed that post, you can check it out HERE. Years ago, I made a video tutorial about applying the first coat of milk paint, what to expect, etc. While the information really hasn’t changed a lot, I decided to make an updated video as I worked. In this video, I cover some of the basics, like when to sand and the benefits of sanding. I also talk about application (brushes, rollers, sprayers) and some of the perks of using milk paint, especially if you’re a sloppy painter! Here’s how the dresser looked after the first coat. The variance in color that you see is partly the nature of milk paint and partly how the paint was absorbed into the surface. I debated painting on a second coat to even it out a

April 15, 2018 30 Comments

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speckled milk-painted eggs

I told you another milk-painted egg post was on the way and here it is, just in the nick of time before Easter. This idea came about because I bought a bunch of real eggs to paint, but then I found the paper eggs and those were going to be even better for my original plan. So, I was left with a bunch of cheap white eggs. I will insert here that I eat eggs for breakfast almost every day. Big egg fan. But, I’m picky about my eggs and like ones that are free-range and organic with rich yellow/orange yolks. They just taste so much better! These were just run-of-the-mill, pale-yolked eggs that don’t have a lot of flavor. I wanted to find another use for them. So, I made these speckled milk-painted eggs, but I used quail and robin’s eggs as inspiration. This speckled milk-painted egg project was

March 29, 2018 11 Comments

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milk painted paper eggs

After making the Pysanky eggs last week, I thought it would be fun to break out the MMS Milk Paint and make some more eggs! I selected a color palette of Mustard Seed Yellow, a custom green (2 parts Boxwood + 1 1/2 parts Lucketts Green), a custom pale blue (2 parts Eulalie’s Sky + 1 part Linen), and Artissimo. I found at Target and knew they would be perfect for milk paint. I was planning on just painting some small papier mâché eggs, but these were even better. They are larger, about the size of duck eggs, and the fact that they open up makes them easier to paint and they can actually be filled! No prep work was required. I just painted on one coat of each color. I painted the white eggs in the lighter colors and the craft eggs in the darker colors. The

March 27, 2018 49 Comments

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five reasons you need hemp oil in your life & answers to FAQs

When you’re around something for a while, whether it’s a smell, an environment, something you created or wrote, it’s easy to not appreciate or notice it any longer. Sometimes I’ll go back and read a post I wrote years ago, that I have completely forgotten about and it makes me laugh and I can see my blog in a fresh way. It’s a reminder. Oh yeah, this is why I like doing this every day. I recently saw a piece someone finished in Miss Mustard Seed’s Hemp Oil, a product I have used, promoted, and sold for over six years now. The piece was an old wooden trunk and it was so beautiful and rich. It almost glowed. Oh yeah, that is why I love hemp oil so much. It’s not that I’ve stopped using, but I may have stopped appreciating it for how amazing and versatile and simple it is.

March 26, 2018 56 Comments

I’m Marian, a painter, writer, and lover of all things creative. From art and antiques to home projects and everyday life, I share my journey in hopes of inspiring you to embrace your own creativity and make beauty in the spaces you live.

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