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Wooden ya just know it
Its always a warm feeling when you can sell top quality product and the customer is happy to buy it. Thats the case with hand crafted wood plates. They have been used in tole painting and rosemaling...
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Sta-Wet in the reservoir
We have always liked the Sta-Wet products from Masterson Art products. They may have been the inventors of these nifty little product that keeps acrylic paint moist after you make your mix or prepare...
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Pour it on
One of the more interesting products we sell is ”Pour-On” made by Environmental Technology. Although the company name bears the name ”environmental” the actual green characteristics of the product are...
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Delta
Delta craft used to be the top brand we sold. Hard to believe it outsold Americana, but it had a cachet way back then and the beginners loved it because its consistency is more liquid and allowed...
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Rapido Amigo
Rapidograph pens have always been a catchy sort of item for us. Its a technical product that has been used in pen and ink painting popularized by Mary Owens. We were able to luck into the line since...
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Spray and go away
Americana Sealer and Finisher has always struck us as a unique product, that we have never seen elsewhere, and its been around almost forever. What is unique about it is that it can be applied as a...
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Pencil me in
One of the better moves of the last year was taking on a distribution of Winsor-Newton products in Quebec. We were pretty aware of the value of the Liquitex and Winton oil lines, as well as Reeves in...
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Book value
Its amazing how the Decorative painting book business seemed to torpedo itself into a black hole. Going back seven or eight years ago we were selling over 50,000 decorative painting books a year, which...
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small is beautiful
there has always been an interest in small brushes for decorative painting. It may have started from the hobbyists who needed mini brushes and elbow shaped liners for painting model trains, planes and...
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stencil it in
Stenciling has always been around. Its had its up and downs and taken its lumps, but its still hangin’ in. When we began distributing craft supplies we hooked with an American company called Freshn’...
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