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Cocktails with Janice Lindsay in Toronto

04/25/2013
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We’re right in the middle of my Specify Colour with Confidence™ Training and tonight Janice Lindsay hosted us in her fabulous home just blocks away from the University of Toronto where the course is being held. You know when you see the list of credits in the beginning of a TV show and there’s the…

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Maria’s Colour Training is IDCEC Approved

03/27/2013
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I have known my good friend Patricia Kramer since 2000 when I first set up my colour and decorating business. Back then it was called One Day Design, BS. Before Staging, haha. Patricia has worked in the design industry for many years and is the Textile Instructor at Vancouver Community College. Patricia was responsible for putting…

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Would You Love to Have More Confidence?

12/10/2012
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More confidence is what most of the interior designers and decorators, architects, stagers and homeowners who arrive at my True Colour Expert Training are looking for.  Confidence is what they get. Every designer and colour enthusiast who participates in my workshops immediately looks at the world from a different point of view. My newly revised…

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We’ve Come a Long Way Baby!

10/18/2012
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My True Colour Expert Workshops have come a long way since the first course we launched in May 2010. source June 2011 was when I had the good fortune of meeting my right hand and associate Irene Hill who attended that workshop and with her multi-talented writing and computer skills, has turned our workbook/manual into…

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Top 8 Posts by True Colour Experts

09/28/2012
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I’ll be in Toronto next week leading my Specify Colour with Confidence course! I’m so excited to meet a whole new group of True Colour Experts! source Traci Zeller gets the first spot on this post because back in May 2010 whenI first launched my True Colour Expert Workshops she was the first one to register. I…

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Fall True Colour Expert Training is Here

06/18/2012
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  My True Colour Expert Workshop in Toronto was the best ever! As I said in this post, the system I’ve created for distinguishing undertones in neutrals evolves the more I teach it. Pinterest Since I have a bigger following in the east than the west it seems, I will be back in Toronto, October…

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Do You Give Your Client Exactly What They Want?

06/09/2012
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The best part about the designers, decorators and homeowners who attend my workshops is they already know me before they get there. So it’s like I’m your friend, teaching your colour class. Paula (below) and I have been emailing back and forth forever because she comments a lot on my posts. Comments are almost like…

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Where I’ll be in May & Some Must-Read Posts

05/02/2012
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On Mothers Day weekend, I will be at the Pure Painters Booth at the EPIC show at the Vancouver Convention Centre West. Here’s what you’ll find at the show: – Sit and listen to visionaries, thought-leaders, musicians, artists and even comedians – Eat and drink your way through 90,000 sqft of local and organic goodies – Shop for…

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Advice for Designers: Why your Project isn’t Published

04/29/2012
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After I had finished decorating this living/dining room for my lovely clients Jim & Carol I sent the photos to some magazines. Only to receive zero response. I tried to figure out what was wrong with it.

Then in February, at the Design Bloggers Conference in LA I got to chatting with Kimberley Seldon. She is a celebrity designer from Toronto. She had a show called Design for Living for many years and is the editor of a fabulous on-line magazine called Dabble

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Undertones in Fabrics & Countertops

03/27/2012
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The system that I’ve created for distinguishing undertones is still evolving and each workshop I get better at teaching it to the designers, decorators and design enthusiasts who attend. For example, I have been trying to figure out an efficient way to work with fabrics, tiles and countertop samples to make it really experiential for participants. They already work with real paint chips on the first day and compare, compare, compare. Comparing colour is what I do with my clients throughout the entire consultation so that they understand why I’m recommending certain colours and it’s the first thing I teach to everyone.

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What Maria Killam and American Idol Have in Common

02/17/2012
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Some of my readers have said “I have not bought your book because I have trouble seeing what you are talking about on your blog”. Turns out, when someone shows you, “That’s green beige, that’s blue gray”, you can see it immediately. Then it just takes seeing it over and over for you to start noticing undertones on your own. This is the second of a two-part guest post written by my Design Associate, Irene Hill.
“My first post, How Maria Saved my Paint Life, started to tell you the story of how meeting Maria at one of her True Colour Expert Workshops changed the way I see and specify paint colours.

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Colour Confidence in Toronto

06/06/2011
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What would it be like for you to have more confidence when specifying colour for walls, fabrics or finishes?   You can learn something new in a course, but do you always walk away with the ability to apply what you’ve learned the next day? “I learned a lot in this course and I’m way…

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