my name is Marion I'm known in the blog world as miss mustard seed and this is my very first tutorial on how to work with my milk paint so we're going to start with the very simplest thing and that's mixing the paint because the paint comes in a powder form with which is I know very different from other paints that are on the market like latex and oil and chalk paint and all of those things comes in powdered form so you mix it with water the ratio is about one and a half parts or one and a quarter parts water to one part milk paint but I really don't measure it out I just sort of go with it so I'm going to paint a dress right here so I'm gonna put I always use just plastic cups and I'm spooning it out and I'm gonna use I don't know I'm gonna fill up the cup about maybe a quarter of the way maybe a little bit more the thing with milk paint is you just mix it as you use it in its powdered form it will last indefinitely once you mix it you can only store it for about a week you can store it in a cool place covered up for about a week and or I'll leave it actually sitting out overnight and it's fine for maybe one or two days and I'm gonna mix it with warm water and as you can see I'm not measuring I'm just sort of eyeballing it to mix the paint you can either mix it with a blender or you can mix it with a stir stick by hand I always mix it by hand I think you can get it a little smoother with a blender but I just I like to feel it and feel the consistency of the paint so for me that's just my preference but you can mix it however however you'd like to and I'm just gonna stir it around it's kind of like mixing pancake batter so you pour you know the milk and eggs in liquid all in and then you just stir it a little bit and you end up with these lumps so it's kind of lumpy at this point and but that's okay it's okay it's not going to have the kind of consistency that you get with latex or chalk paint or acrylic or any of those other paints that you're used to it's going to have a different texture and that's okay it's a totally different kind of paint so I would stir it up normally for about maybe five minutes or so three to five minutes just keep working it maybe let it sit go do something else and come back this one I need a little bit more water added to it and I'm making probably about a cup of milk milk paint and that will cover a pretty substantial dresser that I'm going to work on I might end up having to mix some more but I prefer to mix it in smaller batches this is what the consistency of the paint looks like once it's mixed as you can see it's pretty smooth but it's it still has a few lumps in it and it's a little bit watery if you still have lumps that's okay I'm sort of pressing them out with the stir stick and if you do still have some lumps you can just work them out with your brush it's kind of a neat thing that you think like oh this paint it's not going to go on very well and then once you start applying it it's it's okay it just all works out so you just have to sort of relax and go with it so once it's all mixed and ready you