MMS Milk Paint Giveaway and Before / After

In an earlier post I talked about Miss Mustard Seed's new Milk Paint line and that my friend, Nancy, at the Sea Rose Cottage will be carrying it!  Well her first shipment has arrived and she's happily stocked with all the goodies!

MMS Milk Paint Colors

In celebration, we will be doing 2 Giveaways.  One here on my blog, and another hosted by Nancy on her Sea Rose Cottage blog.  It promises to be twice the fun!

Each Giveaway package (worth over $100 each) will include a full sample size set of Miss Mustard Seeds 12 Milk Paint Colors....

as well as her Antiquing Wax and Furniture Wax.....

For good measure, it will also include some bonding agent should you decide you need it for one of your projects!

MMS Milk Paint Giveaway

To enter:

*  For one chance to win leave a comment on this Giveaway post.

*  For a 2nd chance to win leave a comment on the Finding Silver Pennies Facebook Page and let me know you did.

*  For a 3rd chance to win, share the Giveaway announcement and let me know you did.

To double your chances....

Visit the Sea Rose Cottage's blog and check out Nancy's latest before & after post using Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint!

*  For a fourth chance to win leave a comment on her Giveaway post and let me know you did.

*  For a fifth chance to win become a follower of her blog and let me know you did.

*  For a sixth chance to win visit her Facebook Page and like/comment on her Giveaway Post and let me know you did.

This competition will end on Tuesday, October 16th at midnight EST.

The winners will be announced here and at the Sea Rose Cottage Blog on Wednesday, October 17th.  Good luck!

Now to share some fun I've been having with Miss Mustard Seed's  Milk Paint. 

Mustard Seed Cabinet (After)

Like many of you who read the blog, I've been dying to get my hands on some of her milk paint.  I've been following Marian's blog ror quite some time and am always inspired by her painted pieces, her photos and her writing.

I thought this little cabinet would be the perfect candidate for her yellow "Mustard Seed Yellow".  This is what it looked like before:

Before

It is actually a very special cabinet made by my friend's great grandfather - a one of a kind heirloom piece that has been handmade.  It just was looking a little brown and tired.  How about some sun-shiny yellow to make it shine?!?

I got my MMS Milk Paint from the Sea Rose Cottage.  When the package arrived I felt like a little girl on Christmas morning.  Wow, it is so beautiful.  I know I'm talking about paint, but Marian's packaging really is beautiful.  From the labels:

Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint

To the tissue in the boxes:

Mustard Seed Yellow Milk Paint

To use the milk paint you need to mix it up yourself with warm water.  I opted to mix it with a stick rather than my new blender.  

Mixing the paint

As you can see it is quite alot thinner than some other paints.  Here's how it looked after the first coat:

After the first coat

I ended up doing two additional coats.  I was particularly excited (and a bit nervous) about the unpredictability of the paint.  I didn't add the bonding agent because I wanted it to peel and crack - I wanted to see how it would self distresses.  I left it over night and had dreams that it was going to all peel off.  It didn't.  It distressed mostly around the edges and on the drawers.  I was hoping for some more flaking and peeling, but it didn't happen.

Distressing

I love the differences in color, the small cracks and the distressed wood.  I also love the warmth that the hemp oil added to the top that I stained with Special Walnut stain:

MMS Hemp Oil

I sealed the whole piece with two coats of MMS Clear wax which went on so easily.  Here's how the final piece came out:

Distressing

Wonderful rustic knobs from Anthropolgie:

Anthropologie knob

I love that, like this yellow bowl filled with shells, the cabinet has a time worn look.

Stained top with hemp oil and chippy bowl of shells

It looks like it may have always been this way:

Mustard Seed Cabinet

What do you think about the new cabinet?  To my lucky readers - the prize Nancy is offering you is wonderful (wish I could win!)  Good luck on winning such a wonderful prize!

This Giveaway has now ended.  Congratulations to the winners.

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