One of the neatest things about my line of work is meeting other people who share the dream to create something truly unique. There are so many talented people out there whose minds are bursting with innovative ideas.
A couple months ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Ed from Cento...
Here's a couple videos I'd like to share with all of you. The first one shows you how easy it is to apply an all natural Clear Wax.
TO WATCH MY WAX APPLICATION TECHNIQUE VIDEO, CLICK: http://youtu.be/jIs9DOPuZ7o
This second one shows you the Wax Buffing Brush Attachment that we use to achieve a fabulous...
I've been buried lately in an endless mountain of paperwork. Can I just say that getting everything ready for your accountant is pain in the butt when you're self employed with a painting business? I can't stand paperwork, so for me, this is torture.
"Lets go off by ourselves to a...
Michigan State University is BIG on being GREEN!
Table painted by one of our students at our last workshop
Their hopes are once you "Go Green", you'll "Stay Green" They have an amazing facility on campus called the MSU Surplus Store. They're rethinking every aspect possible to reduce the amount of trash that ends...
I'll be the first to admit, I'm not a "blue" person, but when I picked up this antique highboy a while back, I kept imagining it in shades of turquoise blues and greens.
The original finish on the piece was an antique white which looked pretty in and of itself until...
Pantone named Emerald Green the Color of the year for 2013
Well you can imagine my excitement then, when I saw the first case of CeCe Caldwell's Emerald Isle Paint on my pallet.
I'm sure the guy on the dock thought I was totally goofy when he saw me beam from ear...
I thought Valentines Day was a great day to share the king size bed I painted in CeCe Caldwell's Traverse City Cherry.
I decided to paint this in my living room so I'd have lots of room to spread out all the pieces. LOVE working in here, so much nicer than...
Hi guys! Happy snowy morning to ya.
The storm that's rolling through just dumped another foot of snow on West Michigan ~ you know what that means ~ SNOW DAY!!!
No worries though, 'cuz my cousin Matt of Pro Mow Landscaping is to the rescue!
The kids are still nestled under their heated...
I concentrate most of my time painting furniture for my booth at Not So Shabby, but I'm also always looking for smaller items to fill in the gaps. I have a million things on my "I wanna make this" list, it's just finding the time to do them.
The themed link...
Does it ever take way longer for anyone else to accomplish things? It does for me like ALL THE TIME.
I painted this in one of my favorite colors, Young Kansas Wheat the day I got it but it just didn't do anything for me. It was too plane Jane...