On April 27, 2012 (four months ago to the day), I announced that I was going to have my own line of milk paint.  It was my pie-in-the-sky-dream-come-true.  Four months later, I received my first shipment of milk paint.  Not just any milk paint.  MY milk paint.  Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint.  In the boxes and labeling and packaging that I carefully selected and hmmm’d and haw’d over.  In the custom colors I mixed and designed.  I sat cross-legged on the floor, pricing each box.  Just by myself.  In a bandanna and some sweats splattered with paint.  There wasn’t a big ribbon to cut or a ceremony and I wasn’t sipping an IZZE soda while a team of people I don’t know priced it for me.  It was just me in my living room with my paint.  It was a sweet moment as I looked at the stack of boxes.  It’s

…and I know I’m really testing it!  I’ve been getting a lot of “will you just sell the milk paint to me already” kind of e-mails and comments over the last couple of weeks.  Here’s is why it’s taking so long…  I thought it was just going to be ME selling the paint at Lucketts and online.  I thought maybe we would bring a few retailers on board after I had some proven success.  It turns out that a lot of people want to join me on this journey, so I started with 15 retailers and then we just kept adding more until now we’re up to over 80 retailers and we have about 150 on hold until we’re ready to bring on more.   That doesn’t sound like too big of a deal, but when you consider that it’s just a few people putting all of this together, it’s a