The Colours Behind The Inspiration: Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint

'The colours behind the inspiration' are those in Miss Mustard Seed's new line of designer Milk Paints and we are very happy to announce that all twelve are currently in transit to Apple Box Boutique.

We have been eagerly awaiting its arrival, and are SO excited that in just a few days all of us will be able to bring that inspiration to life!

We have a feeling this first order won't last long so we've made the full line of Milk Paint available for purchase in The Apple Cart, our online shop. That way all of our out-of-town customers can dream in colour too!

Watch our next Reimagined Monday blog for Miss Mustard Seed's final paint colour reveal project.

In the meantime we thought we would share the piece in our studio that has been awaiting its MMS Milk Paint transformation:

We'd love to know what your first project will be.

Don't keep us in suspense... what will you be painting?

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Apple Box Boutique

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Our Big News: Pre-Order Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint!

Over the last week we have been featuring projects by Miss Mustard Seed using her beautiful new milk paint and your enquiries have been pouring in.

The biggest question has been, "when will it be in the boutique?" There is so much anticipation about rushing in to get some before the first shipment sells out that we asked for the green light to do something new... and today we get to share the happy news!

Are you ready?  We are!...

Yes! Starting today we will be offering Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint to our customers before it is even on the shelves!

We couldn't be more excited!!! 
 

Visit our website at
www.appleboxboutique.com

and select Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint from the Shop Online menu.
or

Click here to be the first to be notified of our upcoming milk paint classes! 

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Apple Box Boutique

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Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint Reveal - Day 5

It's day 5, the last in our week of Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint reveals!  Today we will feature two more colours, bringing the grand total to 8 of the 12 this designer line will launch with.

Why just 8, you ask?  Because the focus of our reveal series was to share real-world projects using the paint, and Miss Mustard Seed is diligently working away on the other 4.  Oh, the anticipation!

In the meantime, lets get straight to it!

We thought we would wait until today to show you the very first colour created and then the most recent colour to have been photographed, and at the end of this post we'll give a sneak-peek of the final four colours!

As Miss Mustard Seed herself would put it, "Say Hello To..."

Shutter Gray

Shutter Gray was the first colour in Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint line. Just a touch of blue makes this a lovely cool grey, reminding Marian of a perfect set of chippy grey shutters she owns and loves.

The test piece is this French dresser -- gorgeous lines but very orange!

One of the coolest things about Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint is that you can leave the bonding agent out of the mix, allowing the painted piece to chip and 'wear' naturally.

It doesn't happen every time, in fact it can be downright unpredictable and not chip at all. We know this isn't for everyone, but for folks like us at Apple Box Boutique it is like Christmas... after painting, hit the sheets and wake up the next morning to some glorious shabby chicness!

Like this...

Oooooo... the perfect amount of distressing, au natural!

We are loving Shutter Gray!

Next up... as promised, the latest Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint reveal project to be completed.

Be still my vintage-loving heart!  Here comes...

Kitchen Scale

Miss Mustard Seed wrote:

"Here’s how this piece started…

Yeah, it’s hard to believe it’s the same piece, isn’t it?

Here’s why I named the color Kitchen Scale…

The color isn’t exactly the same.  My aqua has more green in it, but this scale was my inspiration.

I love how this paint finish turned out.  It only chipped in a few small places, but the entire finish had this wonderful texture.  You can see it if you look closely…

I decided to jazz up the dresser with some branches and blossoms.  I’ve enjoyed the decorative painting I’ve done lately and it seemed fitting for this piece.  It’s a very petite dresser, so it’s perfect for a little girl’s room or guest room.

It chipped just a little bit around one of the knobs.

Since it’s a busy pattern, I kept the decorative painting to the drawer fronts only."

OKAY!  We can breathe again ;)

If the first 8 colours look this fantastic, just imagine how the final 4 will look life-sized:

Recap

If you missed our posts fetauring the other colour reveals, here they are…

Flow Blue  

Mustard Seed Yellow 

Lucketts Green  

Tricycle 

Typewriter 

French Enamel

This is so much fun, and we are really excited to have you along for the fun!

If you like what you've been seeing this week, stop in at On The Apple Box again tomorrow for another big announcement!

[ Insert squeals of delight ]... We can hardly wait!!!

Click here to be the first to be notified of our upcoming milk paint classes! 

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Apple Box Boutique

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Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint Reveal - Day 3

Welcome to day 3 of Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint reveal at On The Apple Box.

On Monday, we focused on Flow Blue and yesterday highlighted Mustard Seed Yellow and Lucketts Green.  In our original announcement about the boutique carrying MMSMP we included a Reimagined Monday feature on Tricycle.  Today...

Get ready for Typewriter!

One of Marian's (aka Miss Mustard Seed) favourite decorating elements is vintage fans.  While the black on those lovely old pieces is just the right colour, the name 'fan' wasn't quite working for her. Instead, she called this paint colour "Typewriter" after another fantastic vintage item most often found in shades of black. 

We agree that it feels just right!  Here is Miss Mustard Seed's take on painting with "Typewriter":

"Introducing this color was tricky for me because I don’t usually paint pieces entirely black.  It looks too heavy to me and I think you lose a lot of the detail of the piece.  So, I decided to leave the drawers wood, paint the body black and add a little decorative painting to the front.

Here’s how the dresser started…

Those stripes are contact paper.  I was about to rip them to shreds (figuratively) for being so ugly, but then I realized it was really pretty clever.  They applied a burled-looking contact paper in strips to look like inlay.  Ugly, but the idea is clever.  Very thrifty, too.  I pealed off the contact paper and went right to painting the body of the dresser.  Unfortunately, the stripes where the contact paper was showed through the paint, so I lightly sanded and applied a second coat.  That did the trick.  The front of the drawers were pretty gunky, so I stripped them to expose the pretty wood.

I chalked out a decorative design on the drawer fronts and painted in the details.  I didn’t want to heavily distress this piece, so I just lightly sanded the edges with a sanding sponge.  I didn’t do any prep work or add the bonding agent and the paint didn’t flake on this one.  You just never know!  I finished with my furniture wax, which turned the charcoal-looking paint to a soft black.

 

 

 

 

This was a fun piece and I love how it turned out."

So do we!  The excitement is building and still there's more to come!  Watch for our next colour reveal tomorrow at On The Apple Box.

Click here to be the first to be notified of our upcoming milk paint classes! 

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Apple Box Boutique

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Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint Reveal - Day 2

Yesterday we promised to reveal a new Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint colour each day of this week.  Today's feature highlights two colours that we feel say a lot about the remarkable yet humble young woman behind the product.

Every once in a while someone comes along that grabs the imagination of many and inspires people to dream. Marian Parsons, aka Miss Mustard Seed has done just that for home decor DIYers across North America.  As a person who works hard toward their goals and represents so many of us working toward ours it is fun to watch her achievements, in part because it allows us to believe it could happen for us too.

Marian Parsons aka Miss Mustard Seed

The support for Miss Mustard Seed to succeed is immense, and so when Canadian paint company Homestead House offered Marian the opportunity to create a designer line of milk paints we all cheered and felt a certain pride that one of us met with a milestone, checking a box on their list of dreams.

In a world of home decor and design shows blasting our hair back with perfection 24 hours a day, Marian is a refreshing change, sharing her projects and ideas while giving equal billing to successes and misteps. When working to develop her yellow shade, she stated that, "It’s sort of a warm honey, muted mustard color.  I started out with a stronger yellow, but it looked more like school bus than mustard seed, so I had to go back to the drawing (mixing) board ..."

She worked hard to get a hue she loved and then described it as so many of us might define the designer herself:"strong, but not too in-your-face".  What better name than "Mustard Seed Yellow"?

True to form, Marian gives credit where credit is due and doesn't shy away from sharing the accolades.   In her personal homage to the antique store in Leesburg, Virginia where she has found success as a seller of her creative pieces and that she describes as "one of my favorite places on earth and I am privileged to be a vendor there", this perfect green milk paint colour reminds her of the vintage wood siding on The Old Lucketts Store.

Here is Lucketts Green:

As a retailer of Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint, we appreciate all of the time and effort being made in the development of 'just the right colours" and look forward to being a part of the creative community we know will love this paint.

As DIYers and admirers, we thank Marian for her vision and inspiration.

There's more to come! Watch for our next colour reveal tomorrow at On The Apple Box.

Click here to be the first to be notified of our upcoming milk paint classes! 

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Apple Box Boutique

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