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What’s Next in Colour & Design for 2011

11/13/2010
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All the Colour Professionals that gather at each CMG Conference arrive with their NOW Colours (colours they are using in their industry currently) and NEXT Colours (colours that clients are beginning to ask for that will be happening next).  Photo by Maria Killam I arrived in Portland with time to spend walking around and taking…

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6 Rules for Painting Trim; Light or Dark

11/09/2010
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Everyone that has read my ‘The best Trim Colours—NOT Cloud White’ post is convinced that I think it’s a bad white, but that is simply not true. To recap that post, trim colours should be chosen based on the ‘fixed’ white in your home. So if your kitchen cabinets (for example) are anywhere from white,…

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A Bad Day in the Life of a Colour Designer

11/08/2010
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I was in the best group today at the CMG Conference (here in Portland) talking about which colours will be NEXT. I’ll post more later but I had dinner tonight with Stephanie Fehrle who is the creative director in charge of a team of 9 for a company that designs gift bags for all the…

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Road Trip to Portland

11/05/2010
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flickr Well I’m off tomorrow morning bright and early to the CMG Conference in Portland this weekend. I’m going to drive (I love a road trip) it’s only about 5 hours from Vancouver. I’m stopping in Seattle for 2 hours to do a little shopping with Angie from You Look Fab. I still want one…

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Affordable Art

11/04/2010
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I fell in love with Shirley’s art when I was clicking on my Baskets & Poodles linky party from last week. I don’t know if all her art is as affordable as the little 5” x 5” paintings that she posts on her ‘One Painting every other day’ blog but here is some of the…

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9 Lessons from a 2 year old Blogger

11/01/2010
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I started my blog because I had spent 2 days listening to webinars for designers on-line. One of them was about blogging. The speaker said every designer should have a blog. It’s the live version of your website and gives people a sense of your personality at the same time. It happened to be Halloween…

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Top Two Trends from High Point

10/30/2010
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Clayton Gray Home Well I was going to skip this post but then I received an email from one of my readers letting me know that the little I had posted from my High Point trip was NOT ENOUGH 🙂 I had also come to the conclusion that a few of my blogger friends had…

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Art post for Week #3; Baskets & Poodles

10/28/2010
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Okay, I may be the only one in love with this blog party idea of posting inexpensive (or better yet cheap and cheerful) ways to create art for your home. But I really don’t feel like I’m the most creative person in the world when it comes to inexpensive art. Really. I would just love…

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Clients and the Law of Attraction

10/23/2010
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Last week when I posted this article, one of my readers emailed me and said “Sounds like you’ve had a recent very bad experience or maybe a series of sorta bad. . .” and I responded that I can count on one hand how many ‘bad’ experiences I have had with clients in my business…

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What is Beauty? 3 Ways to Know

10/22/2010
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I attended a very interesting inquiry (called a Wisdom Salon) a few weeks ago at Landmark Education where we could only ask questions, no debating or rebuttals just questions. So first, it was opened by attempting to define beauty, and here are 3 ways to know ‘What is beauty?’: flickr 1. According to the Oxford…

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Art from High Point

10/20/2010
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On the last full day I spent at High Point on Monday, I went to a few one-of-a-kind including antique stores with Lauren from Pure Style Home and her husband Dave. When we arrived at one little hole-in-the-wall antique store, Dave actually escorted us to the door from the parking lot (so sweet) because of…

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High Point and Comfortable Shoes

10/18/2010
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I’m here at High Point in North Carolina with some of my favourite people! It’s also the perfect place to test out the comfort level of the new fall shoes I bought with Angie at You Look Fab last weekend! Love this polka dot vase with the yellow wall the colour of my sofa! Here…

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High Point Market

10/15/2010
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Okay, I’m off. . . Friday morning at the crack of dawn I’ll be at the Vancouver airport and arriving in North Carolina at 4:30 pm. I’ll be there till late Tuesday morning. I can’t wait to meet all my virtual designer and blogger friends! Credit And I just realized I haven’t even registered for…

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Ugly Costs the Same as Pretty

10/14/2010
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There’s a moment where maybe you realize you’ve gone too far. You’ve made some purchases already or a design decision about a finish, and you realize that you’re maybe in over your head. You’ve chosen a few things that you like, but now you’re not sure how to pull it altogether. Or maybe you’re stuck…

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