painting

Painters Chosen

by Alison Moore Smith on July 13, 2010 · 3 comments

After grinding through subcontractor after subcontractor — and wishing we had personally done the footwork on some subs selected by our general contractor — choosing a painter for our home was a breeze. Maybe it’s just the nature of painters (are they always just easy going and generally positive?), but it wasn’t painful at all. [...]

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Best Toys: Art Supplies

by Alison Moore Smith on October 12, 2009 · 3 comments

Sure, we’ve got the usual box scratch paper, bins of broken crayons, mismatched sets of colored paper, watercolor sets with black mixed into the yellow, clogged glue bottles, and dried up glue sticks. The usual. But when we really want to do artwork, we get out the special stash of the good stuff. Elementary School [...]

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