{"id":1364,"date":"2013-06-27T21:49:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T04:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2020-03-31T13:18:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T20:18:50","slug":"painting-mushroom-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/painting-mushroom-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting Mushroom Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, the glorious days of summer…. <\/p>\n

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I do love painting and doing art projects out of doors! I bought these sweet little mushroom houses from Clickity Clack<\/a> (no affiliation, I just love them!) on etsy a really long time ago. My intent was to paint them up and give them as gifts to my kids. I also had a bunch of wooden animals and some stackers. They’re all unfinished and ready to be painted, but I guess I was just waiting… for something.<\/p>\n

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So one day when I was cleaning up the studio and came across them again, Lil’Miss saw them too and asked if we could paint them. So I said sure. We took them outside with our watercolors and made them into lovely little mushroom houses.<\/p>\n

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Even Little Mister helped. He had his own paint set, but he seemed happy enough painting with water.<\/p>\n

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Watercolors work great for the unfinished wood. It does take an extra coat to get them nice and bright, but they dry fast and they’re easy to finish with a non-toxic beeswax mixture.<\/p>\n

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I painted the rainbow stacker.<\/p>\n

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Lil’Miss created a little village as soon as they were dry.<\/p>\n

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Next we will use a mixture of 1 part olive oil to 5 parts beeswax (melt together and then let cool completely), rubbed onto each piece with a cloth to seal them and keep the colors nice and bright. This is a great completely safe way to decorate kids wooden toys. <\/p>\n

(Although please note that artist quality watercolors may not be non-toxic!)<\/p>\n

What crafty things are you doing this summer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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