Completing DIY Pikler Triangle Projects for Kids

Encourage child development and treat yourself to a fun project by completing a DIY Pikler triangle for your little one. Designed to promote gross motor skills, these climbing triangles help smaller kids learn to stand and walk and provide older kids with a fun prop for free play adventures. Keep reading to learn more [...]

Painting Cinder Block with Real Milk Paint

If you wish to expand your living space by making your basement more livable, painting cinder block with milk paint helps you take the look of concrete walls up a notch. Real Milk Paint comes in a variety of colors for complete customization, and since it's a powder medium, you can mix up as [...]

How to Distress Furniture: A Comprehensive Step-by-Step Guide

Knowing how to distress furniture comes in handy when you want to blend new or handmade furnishings with vintage or antique furnishings. Specific DIY distressing techniques provide nearly unlimited alternatives to sprucing up old pieces, customizing garage or estate sale finds and upcycling thrift store or free-on-the-curb furniture. If you want to add a [...]

DIY Wooden Pumpkin Crafts for the Fall Season

With autumn moving into full swing, it’s time to start thinking about decorating ideas for both Halloween and Harvest gatherings. When considering DIY projects that fit both themes, wooden pumpkins offer a flexible fall decorating solution that takes you to Thanksgiving and beyond. Pumpkins prove a versatile choice since they come in a variety of [...]

Color of the Month: Parchment

This month’s project piece is living proof that even drab, well-worn furniture can undergo an impressive transformation if you know what tools to use and how to work a little DIY magic. If you’ve got a hand-me-down table or old nightstand begging for some attention, the combination of high-quality milk paint and good old-fashioned elbow [...]

How To Transfer An Image To Wood

DIY Image Transfer to Wood Using Real Milk Paint One of our favorite crafting techniques is transferring an image to another surface such as wood. Photo transfer to wood is a simple and fun craft that requires minimal supplies and is great to do together with kids and friends. In this post, we show you [...]

Creative Pumpkin Decorating Ideas With Real Milk Paint

As the leaves change color and the cooler air comes blowing in, it means one thing, fall is officially here. Which means it’s the perfect time to cozy up inside and start creating pumpkin decorations for fall and the Thanksgiving holiday. Get Creative This Fall There are many fun and easy DIY no carve pumpkin [...]

How to Paint a Pumpkin This Halloween With Real Milk Paint

Halloween is just days away which means there is still time to finish decorating your regular pumpkin – and we know the best way to do it. With Real Milk Paint, you can design the coolest pumpkins on the block! What is Real Milk Paint? It’s an environmentally-friendly, non-toxic, paint that’s safe, fun, and easy [...]

Important Tips On How to Protect Wood

Protecting wood projects from wear, tear, and time is one thing, but what about protecting them from all that and the elements too? It may seem too good to be true, but Real Milk Paint’s Outdoor Defense Oil is actually capable of keeping your wood projects safe from all these threats, including use, rot, mold, [...]

Pure Tung Oil: A Beginner’s Guide

What is Tung Oil? Pure Tung oil is a drying oil that’s extracted from the seed of the tung tree, which is native to China and a few other Asian countries. The oil has been used for centuries as a water-resistant finish for boats and other wooden objects, as well as to finish stone. [...]