Mary Ostler

Milk Paint from kitchen spice
From top to bottom.
Chili powder, Wasabi, Turmeric & Mustard Powder

Did a bit more experimenting with dyes for milk paint.  I have no problem with getting  Blacks, Oranges, or Yellows but am having an ace of a time getting a decent red for my rope bed.

Saffron, Brazil Wood, Turmeric, Red Oxide, Carbon Black, Red Saw Dust in Isopropanol,Red Ainiline Dye, and a Black Ainiline Dye [...]

Since I have been playing around with milk paint, I decided to try my hand at making my own milk curds.

I don’t want to muck about with cooking, so the test will be done at room tempature.
1L skim milk (.4%mf, and three days from expiry date)
apple cider vinegar  5.5%a.acid (all i had)
Control = ~350ml  s.m.
Trial#1 [...]

The skid scrap chest is heading towards the finish line. I painted the whole thing with milk paint stained with tumeric. My test pieces of the milkpaint stain has shown a fair amount of fading, but I just wanted to get this thing done. Once I got one good coat on I did [...]

I decided to give my dust filled lungs a bit of a vacation day, so I
chose to play with milk paint instead. I have been playing a little bit
for the last week or so, but today was what I consider day one of
the experiment.
I managed to finally find Hydrate Lime yesterday. I had borrowed a [...]

Got a bit more done on the Skid wood chest.  I now have the two ends done, and a front panel.
I have ran out of the ripped slats, and will have to rip a whole slew more tomorrow.
Thinking I will dado the bottom board and recess the front and back panels.
Saw a similar design on [...]