Robyn Story Designs
Holiday Open House   
Thursday! Friday! Saturday!
OCTOBER 11, 12 & 13

 Hours: Thursday and Friday 10 - 5
Saturday 10 - 4 

As Always Great Food...  

Great Finds... 

...And New Inspirations For Your Mind

   And For The Artful Soul! 

Plus... 
We're Re-Opening 

Robyn's Untold Stories!!

You Know, That's Our Fabulous
Warehouse Sale!

Its Packed With One-Of-A-Kind Treasures...  

Scratch and Dents, Samples, Old Vintage  

Pieces, Odds And Ends From All Of  

Our Collecting And, Yes, Hoarding!

 

Our Warehouse Sale Will Be Held 

In Conjunction With Our Open House! 

OMG!!  Are We Crazy Or What??

(Thursday, Friday & Saturday)

 

  Don't Miss It!!

We're Stocked To The Walls With  

Fabulous Treasures Waiting To Find 

New Homes!!  

Daily Doorbusters!!

It will be so much fun you won't want to leave!!

Ridiculous pricing in our warehouse!

Incredible deals in our showroom!!!

Arrive Early For The Best Selections!!

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Custom Silk Florals

Unique Home Accents

Fabulous Gifts

Gourmet Food & Gift Baskets

Gift Certificates Available

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And Ladies, We will be having a 

Stella and Dot Trunkshow 

for three days as well!!

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Save 20%*

Print and bring this blog post into one of our showrooms (not valid at Robyn's Untold Stories) until
October 30th, 2012 and receive 20% off any one item.  Not good with any other offers, some restrictions may apply.  See store for details.

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We are located at 9249 Lazy Lane, Tampa Florida!  Call for directions!

*Does Not Include  Chalk Paint™ Decorative Paint  Products, Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint, 

 Arthur Court, or Stella And Dot.  

Cannot Be Used for Custom Floral Work Or Special Orders. 

Cannot Combine This Discount With Any Other Offers.   Not Applicable To Untold Stories  

Purchases.  Certain Restrictions Apply, See Store For Details.  Offer Expires October 14th, 2012  

More Chalk Paint Inspiration

Just a quickie to show you yet another amazing job from a 

FABULOUS customer of ours!

The magic of Chalk Paint and a wonderful imagination

Notice the mutton's on the glass doors.  Using the Old White really made that detail POP!

I'm not the only one that likes a touch of McKenzie Childs!!! Look at how the Dark Wax snuggles in all the texture created by the Chalk Paint!

I LOVE that Lynn outlined the leather blotter with checkerboard to give it more of a contemporary look.  I also love when people honor the wood.  The cubbies in the desk are a great contrast and a beautiful way of incorporating its timeless beauty

Arles and Old White stripes, Clear Wax and a touch of Dark Wax. The original hardware was perfect

Lynn, keep the pictures coming.  

If anyone missed Lynn's other beautiful transformation, click here for her console.

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MILK PAINT + PATIENCE = 2 WINNERS

You've probably seen that

MISS MUSTARD SEED MILK PAINT

has finally arrived at

ROBYN STORY DESIGNS

It came....it left and it's coming AGAIN!!

So many orders....THANK YOU for your orders and your patience.

I'm happy to announce the

 TWO WINNERS

of our 

GILDER'S PASTE GIVEAWAY!

 SHABULOUS

 

1wingheART

Please email (rstorydesigns@aol.com) us with your choice of 6 colors of 

GILDER'S PASTE!  

You can check our 

ONLINE STORE to see the FABULOUS colors available.

We will ship it out to you as soon as you let us know your color choice!!!  Prepare to be hooked onto a new product, it's such a great way to enhance ALL of your projects and take them up a notch!!

KEEP AN EYE ON OUR BLOG AND FACEBOOK FOR EVEN MORE NEWS

Miss Mustard Seed Moved Mountains In Our Store Today!

Miss Mustard Seed‘s Milk Paint Update!  Wait a little, save a lot!

To our Loyal Customers…

Miss Mustard Seed moved mountains in our store today!! Mountains of Milk Paint that is!

We ordered a ton of paint, and we sold a ton of paint! I’m talking HUGE, MONUMENTAL, amounts of paint!  The good news is that there are a lot of people out there across the country that will get to play with it in the next day or so.  Woo Hoo!  Not only were they able to get the paint first, but they were able to take advantage of our wonderful pre-sale discount of 15% off all Miss Mustard Seed products.  Smart folks, aren’t they?

 So here’s the thing, we totally have more orders on the way but our next shipment may not be here for the next few weeks… soooo if you don’t mind waiting a bit more, we will ship your order complete when the next allocation comes in. 

For being such a loyal customer and supporting Miss Mustard Seed’s efforts, we are happy to extend our pre-order special of 15% off Miss Mustard Seed products, but we’re going to refer to it as our   Back Order Offer.  Yep, that’s right, you’ll get to enjoy 15% off all your Miss Mustard Seed purchases too!  Pretty smart yourself, aren’t ya?

So wait a little and save a lot...

Order Your Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint from Robyn Story Designs Online Store Now!

 

Miss Mustard Seed Tutorial:  "Getting the Chippy Look"

Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint Is In Tampa Florida!

Woo Hoo!  That's Right, Its Finally Here!
 

 We're doing the happy dance at 

Robyn Story Designs! 

 We got our Fabulous Milk Paint Order

 a few days earlier than expected (Whoo Hoo!)

The wait is over (for those who pre-ordered, that is), 

so get your Pickin' Pile and your  

Paint Brushes ready....

Your orders are out the door!!

Miss Ellen and her elves packed and shipped 

the first 124 orders today!

That's a WHOLE LOT OF 

 Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint!

But here's the thing... we've got more product on the way!

So, we're filling what we can... when we can, 

in the order its received!

Get yourself on our list! 

Take advantage of our extended 

15% Off Pre-Order  Sale

from our Online Store!*

 Note To Self... 
NOW'S THE TIME TO ORDER!

Don't miss out!!  This paint is in Serious demand!

Robyn Story Designs is your Miss Mustard Seed Headquarters. 

  We Offer:

• Flat Rate Shipping
•  Fast Order Processing
•  Great Customer Service
• And Just a Whole Lot More!

*Please note:  All pre-orders sales are final and orders must be placed separately
 from non-Miss Mustard Seed merchandise to ensure correct shipping costs and
 prompt delivery.

MILK PAINT at Robyn Story Designs!!

Robyn ordered some great samples of Milk Paint from
Miss Mustard Seed and handed them over to me (Lori) in case I had some free time... 

I finally had a day to myself to hide in my garage and play!!

I had an old dresser that was in horrible disrepair and was about to get chopped up and put at the bottom of the driveway for trash pick-up.  But then I thought it would be a shame to throw it away.  It has gorgeous lines, is at least 60 years old and is solid mahogany, even though the drawers are non-functional.  What a great idea to make a display piece for the store!!

Here she is after I applied Zinsser's Shellac.  It's 60 years old and mahogany, I fully expected that I would get that wonderful (sarcasm) pink haze. By the way, important note:  The spray version of the shellac is perfect for the inside shell but my haze still came through on the Ironstone ribbon (below).  Use the brush on version for furniture surfaces!  I embraced the haze and it actually looks great but it could just have easily ruined my piece!

 

Robyn also bought an overhead projector off of Craigslist about 2 months ago and I've been dying to find something to do with it.  It all came to me...a little free time and I'm dangerous!!!!

This is after one coat of Milk Paint in Tricycle.
Originally I painted one coat of Ironstone but after realizing my color options I quickly covered it up with Tricycle
and proceeded with this color pattern.

So since this is my display piece I made a copy of Miss Mustard Seed's logo onto a transparency.  I channeled my inner AV geek (remember Audio Visual class in high school??) and got busy!!

I chose this logo since it's so identifiable!  Two coats of Tricyle and I was ready to rock it!!

I only had three colors of Milk Paint to play with so I used Ironstone for the background of the words "Milk Paint" and the circle above it.  Once I was done I had to figure out what color to do the words with.  My only other option was Shutter Gray.  Hmmm, not dark enough.  So, yes, I had to improvise a little....

Ironstone on top of the Tricycle

Chippyliscious!!

Before I was finished it started chipping away.  I'd never used Milk Paint before and I'd heard about it being very chippy!!  What crazy FUN!!!  I loved watching it react.  I DID NOT use the bonding agent that Miss Mustard Seed provides.  I wanted to allow the piece to 'do it's thing' and boy did it ever!! 

Isn't she cute!!~ Oh, I forgot about my improvising  After looking at my options for the lettering, I didn't have Miss Mustard Seed's Typewriter so I used a smidge of Graphite.
I'm so anxious to get all of Miss Mustard Seed's colors to create away....!

Notice the spots of chippy?  As I was painting I actually watched the paint pull away from the surface and start to flake.  It's completely unpredictable and absolutely mesmerizing!!

A close up of the chips!!!

Another close up

 

And finally in the store ready to be stocked with all the little pouches of of Milk Paint!!

 
Don't forget to pre-order your Milk Paint NOW.  We are still offering the 15% off your total purchase.
Although time is definitely running out.  We should have our shipment of Milk Paint by the end of August and it will ship out the minute we accept delivery on our dock!!

Once you've pre-ordered come back to the posting on the blog and leave a comment to enter for another FABULOUS GIVEAWAY!
(ends 9/8/2012)

Good Luck!! and Happy Painting!

Milk Paint/Patience & a GIVEAWAY

 It's coming.....PROMISE!

I just heard from Marian herself, that's Miss Mustard Seed, and she informed us that
MILK PAINT 

will be on its way here SOON! 

This Milk Paint is bigger than ANYONE thought and 

she just wasn't expecting the volume of orders!

GO MISS MUSTARD SEED!! 

SHE'S excited about the BUZZ we've created and how anxious everyone is to get their

MILK PAINT!!

I SO appreciate all of our pre-orders and your patience.

Her new color-IRONSTONE

I think patience should be rewarded...

don't you????

We've already given 5 people their choice of 2 colors 

so let's mix it up a bit!

IF you've pre-ordered (and I WILL check)

  go to our shopping cart, check out the  

Gilder's Paste colors and comment on the blog

tell me what colors you want to try and write...

"PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE"

and you'll be entered into a RANDOM drawing 

and TWO people will win a

6-PACK of our new GILDER'S PASTE

This is an amazing product that is just flying off the shelves.  It's the perfect

artist enhancement for SO many of your projects. It's great for

furniture

picture frames

mirrors

ceramic beads

pottery

Just take a peak at our online store to learn more and 

make sure to leave that comment on the blog!

This contest is OVER on Saturday, September 8th, 

winners will be posted at midnight!

GIVEAWAY OVER, 
PLEASE SEE 9/9/12 BLOG POSTING FOR WINNERS!!