Comments on: The 95th Circle Time: The Show and Tell Weekly Thread

By: Bea

Bea — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:00:05 +0000

They are pretty cool. I don’t go to your extent, but I can see how someone would.

Bea

By: clare

clare — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:34:18 +0000

I meant hue family… silly me!

By: clare

clare — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:34:00 +0000

I too love paint samples… my parents would roll my eyes when I begged to tak ea few home each time we went to the store. The first time I was asked to be a bridesmaid, the bride just handed me a strip of 5 blues, quite close to the blues you posted here, and said ‘pick a dress that is in this cue family’ — and I thought I had died and gone to heaven!!!! thanks for reminding me of such a nice memory!

By: sugarmama

sugarmama — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:39:26 +0000

I also love paint samples. AND those awesome tiny books of ink colors (like everything Pantone has ever made) . We even had a hard time throwing away the paint samples when we were moving out of our last apartment.

By: Battynurse

Battynurse — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:30:47 +0000

I can relate to this completely. I have a friend who is a painter by trade and at his house he had one of those pain sample book things. It’s about 12 inches long and maybe 2 inches wide and has tons and tons of paint samples in it. Every time I went over there I’d start looking through it and picking out colors and finally he just gave it to me. It’s wonderful.

By: Kate (Bee In The Bonnet)

Kate (Bee In The Bonnet) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:02:54 +0000

Total paint-sample lover. I actually saw a craft once that involved using strips of paint samples in a coordinating color array that were decoupaged onto a table-top. I’ve fantasized about completing that project for some time, but haven’t gotten around to it yet…

By: Lavender Luz

Lavender Luz — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:54:58 +0000

I like paint samples, too!

When I was a kid, my dad was a chemical engineer, and he worked with polyethylenes. He would bring home necklaces of plastic chips of every shade, and I loved looking at them, clicking them, treating them like mala beads (even though I didn’t know mala beads at the time).

But paint samples are even better because they have all the creative names.

By: Baby Smiling In Back Seat

Baby Smiling In Back Seat — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:09:51 +0000

My only experience with paint samples was in elementary school when the art teacher sent us all out to get paint samples to cut up for mosaics. Since I wasn’t actually going to buy paint, I felt sheepish about taking them, hyper-moral little child that I was. Every time I pass a display full of paint samples, I think of that and feel a little sheepish.

By: jill

jill — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:06:20 +0000

Oh I love paint samples too! I could spend hours at the store looking through them.

By: Kir

Kir — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:49:05 +0000

I love them too, keep them long after we’ve picked a color and put it on the walls. Those blues in your post…were heavenly.