Coming Soon! Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint

Later this month, TLC Vintage Collection will be adding Milk Paint by Miss Mustard Seed to our shop offerings! I must admit that Chalk Paint(TM) decorative paint by Annie Sloan is my first and steadfast love! So smooth and silky, great colors, ease of use -- gorgeous outcome! But for the rougher, chippier look, those repurposers and upcyclers are going to like the immediate aged, super distressed look that Milk Paint can offer. It is, however, unpredictable -- it may chip when you least expect it to and not chip when you really really want it to!

I have not learned all the ins and outs yet and am in the process of experimenting for you! There is a stabilizer to prevent chipping and some other pieces that came in my starter kit to check out yet. This product is made in Canada and inventory is supposed to ship mid August. Watch here and on my website and Facebook for the release. It will be added to the on-line shop soon!

Also new at TLC Vintage Collection, flip top plastic paint can lids to help preserve your paint ($5 each), Big Lye Soap (with coconut oil) to condition your good brushes ($5.75 each), Chalk Paint(TM) logo aprons ($30 each), plus much more -- Aging Dust! Metallic Foil! Size! Stencils! Stencil Brushes! 4 colors of gilding wax! And a hilarious new line of vintage photo greeting cards, magnets, sticky notes, gift wine bags and bath salts.

Stop by soon! More new old furniture -- the 141 Garage Sale was the bomb! Ethan Allen "Hitchcock" chair and stool, Drexel French provincial style coffee table and a great step up grade Dixie French provincial bedroom set!

TLC Vintage Re-Opens Booth 26 at The Brass Armadillo

TLC Vintage Collection re-opened a booth of painted furniture last week at The Brass Armadillo in Des Moines. While we can no longer sell paint there due to staffing requirements, we do have great examples of colors and styles of how Chalk Paint(TM) decorative paint by Annie Sloan can be used. There is also a "Take One" rack of instructions to the shop and a color chart! We already had people show up at the store Saturday that had seen Booth 26 at the antique mall and headed over from there! Here are a few things we have for sale there -- Including two very cool vintage lamps in the photo above.

This terrific Country Grey and Duck Egg painted table with an Old White stencil on top -- just $100!

This stenciled and crackled Old Ochre painted coffee table also for $100.

I imagine this cute little set of shelves was someone's shop class project some time in the past. Now it has a new life -- painted in the colors of the globe that sets atop it! Only $35 -- Globe sold separately.

How about a Paris Grey and Old White shabby mirror? $40  And no booth is complete without a little Duck Egg Blue table -- $39.50

So visit the shop and visit the mall. So many vendors with so many great deals!

Mini Tutorial on Fabric Fronted Furniture

*** NOTE TO READERS: At the time this blog was written Annie Sloan had not yet released her Decoupage medium in the U.S. Since that is now available, I would use Annie's Decoupage rather than another brand to adhere the fabric to the chest. Also Annie Sloan Chalk Paint® is now copyright rather than a trademark! 1/4/2015


The customer is always right, we shopkeepers know! So I needed to find a way to incorporate toile fabric into a dresser she had her eye on and wanted done a special way. The client supplied the fabric. Here's how it turned out!

Painting the dresser was a breeze, using Chalk Paint(TM) decorative paint by Annie Sloan. This is Napoleonic Blue which is a rich blue -- not quite navy, not quite royal -- with clear wax. There was an old brown finish on the dresser, which if you are familiar with Chalk Paint, did not need to be removed or even sanded. I prepped the piece by simply washing it down with dishwashing soap and water, rinsed and dried.

I cut rectangles of the toile fabric slightly larger than the drawers, emphasizing the various vignettes in the fabric. I then applied Modge Podge generously to a drawer front, positioned the fabric over it and carefully applied pressure with my hand to make sure it fit firmly across the surface. Once dry, I trimmed the fabric to be even with the drawer edges with an exacto knife.

The final step was to protect the fabric from raveling and from dirt. I shook up my liter container of Lacquer -- ie floor varnish -- that is another terrific Annie Sloan product and applied a generous coat to each drawer front. When dry it also gave just a tad of sheen to the fabric and it looked terrific!

I can't wait for the customer to come in and see the final piece. She better come soon or I may just take this home to my guest room!

Old Idea in a New Package! Milk Paint Coming Soon!

I wish I had $10 for every time someone has looked at my cans of Chalk Paint™ decorative paints by Annie Sloan on display and said "Oh, you have milk paint." No, I would answer.....much different and they are! But that doesn't mean both don't have a place on the shelf of someone who likes to refinish furniture. And so now, here in Iowa, you will soon of the option, as I will be carrying Miss Mustard Seed's line of Milk Paint.

It's a very old, reformulated product in a new package and more ease of use than the milk paint our foremothers used. Literally, one form or another of milk paint has been around for hundreds if no thousands of years. Someone once told me, if you are stripping furniture and hit a layer that is like steel to get through, you've hit milk paint!

Like the total ease of use, smoothly distressed look of Chalk Paint? Then Annie Sloan has the answer. Want an unpredictable chipping look to old wood? Then Milk Paint may be your answer.

I must admit I have not tried it yet, but my sample kit is on its way to my store. So next week I hope to find a moment to do a piece and see for myself how the two compare. Meanwhile, Marian Parson's -- aka Miss Mustard Seed -- loves both paints and you can visit her blog to see what she has to say.

http://missmustardseed.com/2012/05/milk-paint-vs-chalk-paint-again/

Plus, if you are not familiar with Marian's blog, you are in for a treat! Start following her for some great decor ideas.

And in the interest of being even handed here, if you haven't had time to read up on Annie Sloan's blog, be sure to visit there to learn more about color and how to work color combinations, plus history of her color palette. So much good stuff! Who has time to go to work anymore?

http://www.anniesloanpaintandcolour.blogspot.com/

Meanwhile, I have three projects underway at the shop and gearing up for our next Chalk Paint 101 class July 21! Still a few spaces available so sign up soon by calling or emailing me....515-991-7383 or janet@tlcvintagecollection.com or by going to the "SHOP" tab of my website http://www.tlcvintagecollection.com/

Thanks for stopping by!