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Building Your Online Brand
The Future of Business. Click here to view the embedded video. (Thank for that info, Socialnomics!) Social Media is a cultural shift and it will affect how we do business in the future. Fact. It’s been...
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Mirrors for Celebration!
A recent profile of our mirror works by the wonderful My Notting Hill blog inspired me to post a recent mirror project. This one was an elegantly simple, albeit small, commission we did for the...
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Versatile Venetian Plaster
Venetian Plaster – one of the most versatile techniques in our industry. It can be an elegant background via a single color or it can be embedded or embossed with patterns, detailed with metallics...
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Embossed Allover Designs
When we were at the Design Bloggers Conference, designer extraordinaire Tobi Fairley took the stage. She was giving great advice all over the place and then she said “Your blog should showcase your...
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IDAL Class: Building Your Online Brand
Have you made your travel plans yet to attend the IDAL Convention this Summer? IDAL is the International Decorative Artisans League and they hold their annual convention and conference each summer. It...
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Fauxology Updates
Hello, hello! Well, I’ve been busy testing out several things and wanted to update you on the results. You ready? First up, our Fauxology Fan Page on Facebook. Are you a Fan yet? WHAT?!? No, no...
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Fauxology Blog Archive: Snakeskin Revisited
I’m still down but hope to be back to business tomorrow. Today, we are going back to Snakeskin Revisited, where the team and I had a fun time in Land O’ Lakes, Florida — if you’ll click on the further...
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The Big 0-4 in Oz!
“I am, first and foremost, an artist not a writer. I have a tendency to ramble and gush ad nauseam without control. I love what I love and when I love, self restraint goes out the window.” This is why...
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Black, White and Gorgeous All Over
Yesterday was Independence Day and it was all about the Red, White & Blue. Today, however, we’re all about the Black & White. Just the pairing bubbles up thoughts of Glamour, Drama and...
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IDAL Bound…
Dana Tucker and I have been knee-deep in preparing for the IDAL convention and our class, Building Your Online Brand. We’re SO excited to see fellow artists and also to teach the class together. We...
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Sense of Patina: Verdigris
Ver·di·gris \ˈvər-də-ˌgrēs, -ˌgris, -grəs also -ˌgrē\ 1 a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper...
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A Love of Color and Pattern
In a recent residential commission, our client happened to love strong colors, combinations and patterns. She had very definite ideas as to what was the design of her home and it was quite a...
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Trend Alert: Stripes on Ceilings
I’ve been seeing a slew of stripes on ceilings lately. You? First, I encountered one on Tobi Fairley’s blog when she did wide orange and white stripes for the Hampton Designer Showhouse. Then I saw...
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Columns on the Mind
Hello, Gorgeous Ones! Well yours truly is entering the fourth day in a 3-week hotel project — all during the graveyard shift (10pm – 6am). I’ve had to switch around my sleeping/living patterns and...
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Fun Collaborations
About six years ago, I almost teamed up with two other artists to create a larger faux decorative company. That didn’t work out but one of the artists and I have kept in touch throughout the years....
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Silver Leaf
We’ve been doing a lot of work with silver leaf — silver leaf schaibin to be exact. (Schaibin is irregular sheets of leaf that are primarily used for “broken leaf” effects.) Next week, we tackle...
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Hyatt Regency Orlando Airport
About seven years ago, my brother and I decided that our company, Garay Artisans, would actively pursue hospitality commissions. Hotels, boutiques, spas, restaurants — these all fall under the...
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Gilded Mirrors
Our company, Garay Artisans, has a separate studio for creating unique antique mirrors. We’ve recently been working on quite a few projects and below are a few that feature gilding. All three were...
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The Fifth Wall – Fabulous Ceilings
From the keypad of Peggy Pardo… Let’s see…there’s The Fifth Dimension, The Fifth Element, pleading The Fifth, being a fifth wheel, Fifth Avenue (the actual avenue or the candy bar, whichever you...
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Tented Ceilings
A few years ago, we painted a tented ceiling and ever since then, I’ve loved seeing different variations. Traditionally, the tents have been created with fabric but it also works beautifully to just...
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