Duck Egg Blue gets added to Facade~

 Colin and I painted the screen door Duck Egg Blue 

as well as the ceiling over the front entryway.

This color looks outstanding with the Henrietta!

  A little painters tape was used to keep it off the granite~

 Duck Egg Blue Chalk Paint looks really nice with the 

verdi-gris color of the copper bay windows above~

 I took a little time to make some more shopping bags up~

I use a big fleur-de-lis stamp

in black on simple brown handle bags~

then I fit a cardboard piece in the bottom 

for extra strength as the paint is heavy!

 Its a little touch~and easy to do...when I get really 

big (*!) I'll pay some company to print up custom bags,

but until then, this method is fast and effective.

 More merchandising in the store and I am seeing results~

I had a few walk in customers who bought silver items, but no paint~

so that was interesting....

 And then at the end of the day I had a BIG paint sale~

a cute lady bought 7 cans of paint and two cans of wax!

She went to the Boston workshop, but has yet to try it at home

and was waiting for someone to open a store close to her!!

She bought Graphite, Provence, Old Ochre, Antoinette, Louis Blue,

Old White, and both dark and clear waxes.

So glad she waited~my biggest sale to date.

 I'll be having my first workshop in June~

and designer/pal Betsy Speert and her business partner

Kris will be taking the class....so that should be crazy fun!

I'll be offering steak tips for lunch!!

(PS as of this morning I have lost 14 pounds

on the famous steak tip diet~if you want my 

diet, email me and I will tell you how I do it)

 My Paint area~I started working on a vintage 

shabby backdoor among other things!~

I have to say having a store gives

 me tremendous freedom to play around

with what is in my head and translating it into reality. 

 So anyway, yesterday the store front was solo Henrietta~

And today it is Henrietta with Duck Egg Blue~

don't you think its nice?