Cuckoo Kids re-opens

The folks at Cuckoo Kids have done a fabulous job refitting their shop and they’ve complimented us by choosing Providence Paint for the shop interior.

Their feature wall is painted in Providence Paint – No 25 Maple ( a beautiful, deep, warm red) and wood work including the tongue and groove is in No 40, Kim’s Kitchen.

Note: A picture soon to follow. as soon as I get to Burwash with my camera.

In the Country

We’ve described our “In the Country” colour family as Rural not metro, soft not hard.
I have today been finishing off the colour development. This colour card is split between some very soft pretty pastel shades and some really anchored earth tones.

• Dandelion clock – soft whisper of a green white
• Burwash – soft dusty pink, (“Burwash” sounds like this)
• Kim’s kitchen – soft and blue
• Clotted cream -  soft and yellow
• Buckskin – middle greyed yellow ochre
• Workshop – deep grey brown colour, that we painted our workshop in ages ago
• Cinnamon – mid an warmer nutty colour
• Stillwater – our green blue not so earthy as the rest, good contrast

Our Paint is launched

After much labeling, sticking, painting, mixing, laughing and (some crying) our paint has been launched. We had a great day on Saturday and a lot of fun with the Cambridge Harriers. last night.  Here’s a linked to a page with a few pictures. More details to follow, I’m just shell shocked at the moment.

What colour is a flour sack?

So folks what colour is a flour sack?
Flour sack is the name of one of our colours in the Mr & Mrs White family. (These neutrals that are not the norm.) My current mix has turned out too green. Colour names often bring something to life in your imagination. This greenish mix has comepletely stumped me.

So I’ve had to dig out a roll of hessian from our shed, since I don’t have an actual flour sack as a colour reference. I know flour sacks weren’t made out of hessian (in the US it’s called burlap), but this has definitely given me a reference that is out there in the real world. I need to make my colour more golden and definitely paler for the colour card. Hopefully it’ll be something that bridges the flour sack/ burlap hessian world, and is a golden colour that our neutrals colours family needs.

I asked my son what colour he thought a flour sack was and he said red, then I asked my husband and he said grey. hmmm…..  what colour is a flour sack?

Painting colour charts

The colour cards were delivered on Friday and we’ve had our first crack at painting them.
We started with the Shade card and had a stab at some of the others. It takes 5 teenagers dabbing away I figure well over 2000 times to get this far, probably only 10,000 more dabs to go for our paint launch. It is fun for a while, but maybe when we are at dab 9,999 it might seem kind of “old”. I’ll let you know.