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THE ANNIE SLOAN AMERICAN TOUR AND CHALK PAINT GIVEAWAY!

Announcing… THE ANNIE SLOAN AMERICAN TOUR  AND CHALK PAINT GIVEAWAY! (This one is going to be Big!) To spread some holiday cheer and celebrate the Annie Sloan American Tour, we are excited to announce this wonderful giveaway. See how you can enter to win one the Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Holiday Baskets given away by [...]

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Does Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Really Stick to Anything? Yes!!! – Silver Plate Tea Pot

This is the second installment in the blog series “Does Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Really Stick to Anything?  Yes!!! My Rusty Urn post has garnered quite a few hits. Now when some of you read the title of this post, I am sure there were a couple of gasps and a couple of you even [...]

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Does Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Really Stick to Anything? YES!!!! – Rusty Urn

It has been an awesome three weeks since our Grand Opening. We have sold quite a few things out of the shop, but of course everyone is excited about Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. One of the questions that I get asked most frequently, and with great skepticism I might add, “Does Annie Sloan Chalk Paint [...]

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Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Workshops

We had a great weekend in High Point, North Carolina at Faux Works, the studio of Barb Skivington. We are now certified to teach Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Techniques to all of you! First, I want to heap praise on Barb Skivington. She is an amazingly talented artist and an incredibly gifted teacher. She is [...]

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Adventures in Small Business, Part 1:Using Google Picasa to Create a Photo Collage

Setting up a new business is painful! It is a new baby and it needs to be fed with time, money and creativity. I own other businesses and know that it takes a lot of work to get started, but just like childbirth you forget how painful it really is. Also, this is my first [...]

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Sweet South Cottage is open for business!

Painted with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint

Sweet South Cottage is the culmination of years of dreaming of a place where I could express my personal style and give others the vision to create their own. It was secret dream that I harbored and always said someday…. Someday when the kids are moved out, someday when I retire, someday when we aren’t [...]

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