Vintage Decorating Styles

Recently, all of the Annie Sloan Paint Retailers were sent an e-mail from Annie requesting information about our stores for her website. One of the things she was asking was a description of the store in seven words or less. For example, are we sophisticated,...

More Milk Paint Please!

The last of my Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint samples are dwindling and I’m anxiously awaiting my first shipment which should arrive any day now! I scraped together the last bit of Ironstone White to paint this fabulous executive desk. All...

What’s in a Name?

It’s safe to say that we are settled! Three weeks ago today, we were still conducting business across the street and it’s amazing to think of how much we accomplished in such a short period of time. I have done very little writing about our transition...

The Best of the Best

Well…it’s Thursday night and I realized that I haven’t done a Furniture Friday post in…errr…weeks? months? What with the Bazaar in June, moving stores, painting walls, installing moulding, working on custom orders, I just haven’t...

Craigslist Scammer

I write about craigslist a lot. The reality of it is, without craigslist and other online venues (ebay and etsy), I wouldn’t have a business, least of all a store. A few months ago, I did a two-part series on buying and selling via craigslist in my...

Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint

We are within days of receiving our first shipment of Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint! There are over 80 retailers throughout the US and Canada on the list to sell this line of Milk Paint, and we are super fortunate to be one of them. A few weeks ago, I...