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Business Coaching Call with TobeyRenee - The Decorative Painting Academy - November 18

VIEW RECORDING - 42 mins (No highlights)
Meeting Purpose

Review the recent decorative painting conference and discuss upcoming training opportunities for The Decorative Painting Academy members.

Key Takeaways

Topics

Recent Decorative Painting Conference

Future Training Opportunities

Upcoming Training with Courtney

Caroline's Recovery and Potential Involvement


Business Coaching Call with TobeyRenee - The Decorative Painting Academy - November 18


VIEW RECORDING - 42 mins (No highlights)


@1:30 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

and Council and I am here to submit as a record resolution 167 and 168 by Arthur by myself and my colleague, Councilwoman Ursula Bowman, with the resolution stating that we are in full support.

Okay, yes, I'm on. Hey, Hi. Mm. Did anybody jump phone? Did you get finished with your job, Linda?


@2:41 - Linda

Oh, it's kind of like a ongoing kind of thing. Doing little different little things. And it's some light fixtures.

Just. Did your meeting go good today?


@3:00 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

On the clock? Yeah, it did. have three people signed up, um, but you know, that program, so that it's good.

And they all got on today. So hopefully I'll be, I plan on building that weekly. And then those people that joined the beginner, because it's more like a beginner's course.

And I'm selling those people. Those are the people I hope, you know, that I'll have transferred into the academy.


@3:32 - Linda

Oh, okay.


@3:34 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

So it seems to be good. So like I told you, I got another webinar tomorrow. So, you know, my plan is I would like to enroll three to five people a week.


@3:46 - Linda

That would be amazing. So you do the webinar and that's how they join the plan. Okay, this is a whole different program.


@4:00 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah, so it's the thing I've been doing the whole time. It's just now, it's just me talking to a group of people instead of me talking to one person.


@4:11 - Linda

Oh, yeah, that's got to be better. That's cool.


@4:21 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah. See how it goes. I think it's going to be really good.


@4:31 - April Henry-Wood

I do. We're going to have to cut out that yawn and you know, that's very good taste.


@4:37 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Hi, April. So you back up and walking back to 100% praise Jesus. I'm going ask my mom to ask me about you.

Is Linda walking?


@4:52 - Linda

Yes.


@4:54 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah, I'm walking with a little bit of a limp, but I'm walking. Sorry. feeling therapy?


@5:01 - Linda

I go to the gym. I don't have the physical therapy, but I go to like the community center, Virginia Gray, not too far from where I live.

And I go up and they got equipment and then, you know, they got the catwalk and I walk around there.

And I used equipment, which was some of the same equipment that was at the rehabilitation center. So I'm just kind of on my own, but I just keep trying to go there.


@5:39 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

what do you do?


@5:42 - Linda

do like, you know, the, you don't like to have the different equipment, you know, the leg, that one machine where you push the push it out.

don't know what you call that stuff, but um, you doing all that on your own. Are supposed to be doing that?

Mm-hmm. Yeah. It's helping, you know, because it's really kind of amazing. I can tell there's some of the nerves have not, they're not connected back yet.

It's just, I'm still, you know, my knee and my quads are still kind of weak.-hmm. it's coming along.


@6:36 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Okay.


@6:36 - Linda

We're good. Mm-hmm.


@6:39 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Hey, Courtney. Hello, Just the person I was looking for.

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@6:46 - Courtnee’s iPad

So what are you doing?


@6:48 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

What day, what are we working on?


@6:50 - Courtnee’s iPad

What'd you say?


@6:52 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

I said, what day are we looking at?


@6:54 - Courtnee’s iPad

What? Look. Because my mom just sent me a message today, what are the dates?


@7:00 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

What the heck is this? I'm going to call.


@7:04 - Linda

I just got a package.


@7:06 - Courtnee’s iPad

You know they be in my stuff. Um, okay, let me get my calendar. All right, so wait, what is this?

November, okay, so what about it has to be after the fifth, so do you have anything like the week of the eighth or the 14th?

Um, no, so we can do it during the week? Yes.


@7:39 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

So maybe we should do like the 10th, 11th and 12th.


@7:44 - Courtnee’s iPad

Okay, 10th, 11th, 12th. me send that to her. Oh, that'll work too, because that will work. Um, so let me, I'll send this day to my mom just to confirm and then.

that should work.


@8:02 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Okay.


@8:03 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yeah. where are you? Where are you located at?


@8:06 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

I'm in Marietta.


@8:08 - Courtnee’s iPad

Okay. I mean I do. Because my sister's in Grace and that's gonna be too far every to go every day.

So I'll probably stay with my cousin who stays closer.


@8:19 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Oh, okay.


@8:20 - Courtnee’s iPad

Oh, yeah.


@8:21 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

definitely. I don't remember.


@8:23 - Courtnee’s iPad

I don't know what Grace and answer. That's why Lawrence Hill.


@8:26 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Oh, okay.


@8:27 - Courtnee’s iPad

The Louvre over in that area. So East.


@8:31 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Okay. So you need to confirm with her first, right?


@8:34 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yep. I'm sending it to her now. So we should have an answer by the end of today or early in the morning.


@8:40 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Okay. All right. And then, um, okay. So yeah, I think that covers everything. Um, because you've got, have you gotten through all the class, the courses?


@8:54 - Courtnee’s iPad

I think I have like three or four more left. Okay.


@8:57 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah. right. I'm


@9:00 - Courtnee’s iPad

I stuff yourself. Yeah.


@9:02 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

And then what happened with your project? Are they still waiting on you?


@9:09 - Courtnee’s iPad

Waiting on me. I got my car back, so I'm just rescheduling it with them.


@9:14 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

OK.


@9:15 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yeah.


@9:15 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

that's where you live, right?


@9:17 - Courtnee’s iPad

They're in Virginia.


@9:18 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Oh, they're out of town.


@9:20 - Courtnee’s iPad

Mm-hmm.


@9:21 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

OK.


@9:22 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yeah.


@9:23 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

going to wait on you though, right?


@9:24 - Courtnee’s iPad

They are. OK. I wanted to make sure.


@9:30 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Well, yeah. Were you cold? Sorry. I had a long day. Well, actually a long night though, somebody pulled the fire alarm in our building.


@9:39 - Courtnee’s iPad

So. Oh, gosh.


@9:42 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah, it happened in, like, three-something. So I haven't recovered.


@9:46 - Courtnee’s iPad

I am? Yeah. Yeah.


@9:50 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

That's hard to I don't know why they thought that was funny, But anyway, so you don't really need anything.

Just make sure you bring maybe a port. We all just text stuff up the samples up. That's pretty much it.

And are you going to drive or fly?


@10:07 - Courtnee’s iPad

I'll see which one works better, because I'm just going to need my car. So I may have to, if I drive, I'll rent a car.

But if I find a cheap flight, then I'll just fly.


@10:20 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

OK. So you'll probably need an end. Sometimes you can shift the home, too, if you feel the need to do that.

But you don't really need to bring anything. Just paint clothes. You don't want to get dirty and some dirty tennis shoes.


@10:32 - Courtnee’s iPad

OK.


@10:33 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah. Do you have anything else on home? Like, with work, like design or?


@10:44 - Courtnee’s iPad

No, no, not yet.


@10:46 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Have you been posting?


@10:48 - Courtnee’s iPad

No, I haven't.


@10:52 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Don't what happened. OK. I just want you to remember you got to build it up.


@10:57 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yeah.


@10:58 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

You want me to say something?


@11:00 - Courtnee’s iPad

like we can't just come out the gate like sometimes you got to build it up a little bit um i'm trying to multitask that to pass this cloud exam by the end of the year so i'm trying to do that okay well that's well i was going to tell you don't stress like nobody can take your you know design talent or skill setaways can always be there but get you know get through what you get need to do and then come back around so you can focus yeah once that once that's out of the way i did it because i'm pretty much off um the last three weeks of the year so what is this for we have to do the um az 900 it's like a mandatory exam for cloud that we have to take um otherwise it'll affect our bonus and all the other crap so it's we have to take it when you say cloud what do you mean um like the cloud environment um like azure

or a platform, software, infrastructure, all of that, so yeah.


@12:06 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

It's almost like a certification. Sounds a little bit complicated.


@12:14 - Courtnee’s iPad

I worked with the cloud, it's a fundamental exam. It's just mandatory, and we're not ever going to use it, but because I work with that group, I have to take it.


@12:26 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

So I was going to ask you, do you have your business name and your brand colors all set up?


@12:33 - Courtnee’s iPad

I do.


@12:34 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Okay. What was your business name again?


@12:36 - Courtnee’s iPad

Ravezi Interiors.


@12:38 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

That's all right. All right. So I think you should definitely or at least posting your logo.


@12:45 - Courtnee’s iPad

Well, I do have my my paris. I do wear that.


@12:49 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

But you have your what?


@12:51 - Courtnee’s iPad

My paris. It's a nail, yeah.


@12:52 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

I'll be paraphernalia.


@12:54 - Courtnee’s iPad

Okay.


@12:56 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

My little cat's shirt made or apron.


@12:58 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yeah. I have a heat press.


@13:00 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

So my heat press, he hates to see me coming now because I know how to use it. Baby, I'm there one soft shop.


@13:07 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yeah. Yeah.


@13:09 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

I am not mad. So you make all your own t-shirts and stuff.


@13:14 - Courtnee’s iPad

Mm-hmm.


@13:15 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

So you make bags too?


@13:16 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yep.


@13:17 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Oh, yeah. Well, that's what I like to have a good t-shirt bag and a paper. Actually, I have had two, but I haven't worn my hat in a long time.


@13:25 - Courtnee’s iPad

So the hat is, I don't have the, because it's like a different heat press for that, but I was looking at it getting that too.


@13:32 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Oh, okay. Well, it's definitely worth it to be branded when you get on the, um, in a line. So I don't think, maybe no one else is gonna join us.

Everybody's like, I have to work. I guess that's a good thing everybody working. Yeah. can not.


@13:50 - Courtnee’s iPad

So Terry's getting it in.


@13:53 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah. So proud of him. Yeah. Well, I'll show you what we did at, um, Well, we did it.

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@14:02 - Courtnee’s iPad

I down. Oh, yeah.


@14:04 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah.


@14:04 - Courtnee’s iPad

You said you like Think oh, I loved it.


@14:11 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah, I'll show you I'll show you my samples. I was hoping more people with me on I'm going to ask Courtney.


@14:21 - Courtnee’s iPad

What's listening? I'm a Charlotte Charlotte. Oh, okay, okay Mm-hmm.


@14:26 - Linda

All right.


@14:27 - Courtnee’s iPad

Um Not too fun. I'm drivable Where are you and Charlotte? I'm in it.


@14:36 - April Henry-Wood

He'll So I'm like 15 minutes from Charlie Okay, cuz I used to work in mitt Hill. This is April.


@14:44 - Courtnee’s iPad

Okay. I used to work at Rocky River High School Okay, so I'm closer to Matthew. So I'm like off of lawyers, bro I know exactly what you are.

Yeah for the public things and all of that.


@14:57 - April Henry-Wood

Yeah those townhums are right. I'm right there. Okay. Okay. We have to meet up one day.


@15:04 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yeah. So you're a Charlotte? Or North Carolina?


@15:09 - April Henry-Wood

I'm in Charlotte. I move from Atlanta to Charlotte.


@15:13 - Courtnee’s iPad

I am off of Sunset and W. Harris. Oh, okay. So I, I, I work at Wells and CIC. So I'm off of W.T.


@15:23 - April Henry-Wood

Harris.


@15:30 - Courtnee’s iPad

I didn't know you were here.


@15:36 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yep. So y'all have to check me in.


@15:38 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yeah.


@15:39 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Okay. I took the alcohol ink class. I really liked it.


@15:45 - Courtnee’s iPad

So what you do put, um, you, you, uh, finished it with a posse?


@15:56 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

A posse.


@15:58 - Courtnee’s iPad

I like it.


@15:59 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

I really liked it. It was a great class, just because I always like to go and take training so I can understand the basics.

Um, and I want to be able to sell prints of my work soon.


@16:12 - Linda

That's pretty.


@16:13 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah, I thought it was we did a lot of fun stuff. And it, you know, it's the look is so different, which is what I like.


@16:22 - Linda

Mm hmm.


@16:23 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Very, very different. Um, but I definitely can see this stuff integrated with what I'm doing now. Okay, we created a flower.


@16:33 - Linda

Oh, I love that.


@16:36 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah, so we did a lot of cool stuff.


@16:38 - Courtnee’s iPad

So now what is that? What is that on wood?


@16:42 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Um, no, it's kind of like particle board.


@16:44 - Courtnee’s iPad

The same thing your samples would be. Oh, okay.


@16:47 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

You see it's kind of brown.


@16:49 - Courtnee’s iPad

Mm hmm.


@16:50 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

And so what you do is you do the you do your work on a piece of plastic. It's really it feels like piece of paper, but it's really plastic.


@16:58 - Courtnee’s iPad

I forgot the name of the.


@17:00 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

I don't remember. It's similar to what I use for my samples. It's just really, really thin. But it feels like paper, but it's really plastic.

So you do your work on the paper, then we glued it to the board.


@17:17 - Courtnee’s iPad

And then you finished it with pocket.


@17:19 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yes, with a pocket.


@17:21 - Courtnee’s iPad

I love that.


@17:23 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

I have a few more that they put up. don't feel like rummaging through. But yeah, so the class turned out really nice.

That's only class I had to work.


@17:35 - Courtnee’s iPad

You taught the class, right?

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@17:37 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yes, I do. I taught my... Wait, can y'all see my screen? Okay, I taught my Micah class there, which is...

I've been teaching that for quite some time there because nobody else really teaches that. So let me start from the beginning.

Yeah, it was a really great conference, so I hope next year you plan to go, you know, I hope you join the organization just so you can at least have your business life, I mean, your business insurance.

So what was the first class that I recorded? Oh, Dion's class, oh, well, I guess I can show you my class.

I didn't really do a lot of content, so this was my alcohol ink class that she had this box full of colors, and I thought it was really dope, so it's called the color cube, and it's just samples of colors that you can mix and pull together.

Like a fan deck, but it's in a box, but this was Dean's class, I think her name was the oh, that's my alcohol ink teacher, but let me see if I can get to.

Dean's class if this amount. Oh, these are mine So this is another one I did in the alcohol ink class.


@19:07 - Courtnee’s iPad

Oh, you use the strong Yeah, I told her I said no mail Yeah, let me get kind of I love that out the the outcome though.


@19:17 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah. I was like, yeah, won't be doing this but It It was cute, but no Um, so this is the oh, I think her name was the um, but she taught how to do how to create Gilded surfaces Hmm No, this is the class I was getting ready to say it's enough.

Yeah, I think they did gold leaf on the bottom and then did a hand painted like I like that um so you know, this is just a Ew of what you would have experienced um Well, that is my teacher

Alcoholic. I don't know why I'm mixing up. I don't know why. Maybe I stepped out, but this is my teacher with the ink.

Let me see, is this? So that's one of my other pieces I did. All right, so back to the gilded surfaces.

So she basically teaches you how to do a metal base, whether it's foil or leaf, and then you go back over it with the design.

So it's a very detailed class. It's one of the more high-end classes, but it's really pretty. But that's the instructor.

So this is kind of what you would experience. You know, everybody gets their own workstation, and the classes are usually eight to five.


@20:53 - Courtnee’s iPad

For one class, like a whole session.


@20:57 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

it's a day. Um, this is one of my other alcohol-y.


@21:04 - Courtnee’s iPad

Is that metallic?


@21:06 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yep, metallic silver with gray and black and white. Yeah, I don't know what she had me doing. But some reason it looks black and white on my face.

Um, but anyway, so yeah. Yep. Um, so this is another class called bar relief. And this, um, the teacher actually showed me that she's getting ready to come to Georgia and do this.

So when she comes to Atlanta, I will list it in the academy and then you guys can sign up to work if you want to learn how to do this.


@21:46 - Linda

Is that a plaster?


@21:49 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yes, I'm getting ready to show you her class. Okay. Yeah, but it's a heavy, um, class. So this is actually very intricate.


@21:58 - Courtnee’s iPad

So they probably built, it's probably. did it on the wall, huh?


@22:01 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

No, it's actually wires.


@22:03 - Courtnee’s iPad

Oh, it's wires.


@22:06 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

And they come and put the plaster onto the wire. I can't explain it. Oh, yeah, like the I know what you mean, it's like chicken wire.

And then they lay the plaster on top of it and then kind of carve it from there.


@22:20 - Linda

Yeah, the judge teacher, did she do that piece?


@22:24 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Did you show? No, she has a job in Atlanta. And she's going to be doing that.


@22:29 - Linda

Oh, okay. Wow, that was amazing.


@22:32 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah, I'll let you guys know when she gives me a date and then you guys can jump in. She's not paying obviously.

But if you want to come and learn how to do the technique, you're more than welcome. So this is another class.

This is one of our fun classes.


@22:48 - Courtnee’s iPad

think they got the drink wine in there. should cost 50.


@22:53 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

This was a then tangle. That was a really fun class. Very interesting. it. Then Tangled Steel. So her stuff was really dope.

Let me see. So this is actually one of the night classes. have classes that go from 6 to 10, too.

This was my... I'm sorry, go ahead.


@23:24 - Linda

So was it more visual art as opposed to wall designs, of course, the classes, or...


@23:30 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

I don't know. It's all both finishing. It's all decorative painting.


@23:33 - Linda

I mean, you could do what you want with it, I'm sure, but it's all decorative painting.


@23:38 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

These are some of the samples out of my class, the other people's samples, or maybe not. Maybe those are mine.

Oh, here goes some. These are some of the other students ink, ink samples.


@23:56 - Courtnee’s iPad

Oh, wow, they made trees.


@23:58 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

was fun. It was a super fun class. Very fun. Have a good time. Okay, let's see.


@24:13 - Courtnee’s iPad

So like roughly around how many people are in the classes or just it just depends on what it's usually no more than 15 to 20.

Okay.


@24:23 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Because at most you should cap it off because that's a lot to be trying to. You know what I'm saying?


@24:29 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yeah.


@24:30 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Like even I don't like to take more than 10 in a class. So it's a very intimate setting. We also had a great expo.

Oh, think that was the Gilbert services class. We had a great expo. Oh, no, this is the wallpaper class.

So this is Michelle Burton. She teaches how to do bespoke wallpaper. So you do your decorative finishes on wallpaper back in.


@25:06 - Courtnee’s iPad

Oh, and then you put it up.


@25:12 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

So that's wallpaper. Her classes are very popular class too. Especially if people want to do wall finishes. So she did a nice wall.


@25:29 - Courtnee’s iPad

This is wallpaper backing.


@25:31 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

She did a nice one. So I didn't take this class, but you know, I guess she teaches you how to connect it.

You know, and take it on to the next. think you do these in your shop or at home first.

And then when you take it to the client's home, then you're just installing. So you don't paint it on site.

Oh, let me see. Isn't that pretty? So again, this is Michelle Burton in class So you see corny it's it seems it's not a lot of people, but it's a lot of people, you know, mm-hmm.

It's a no-okay Yeah, here's the bar bar relief class With the plaster and the stone So this is the panel that they created in class.

It was really nice Very modern. So this is what I want to learn from her so that I can incorporate it into my pieces But here's you know, just everybody working on their pieces Turned out really nice.

So the board starts off flat and then you build it up, but I didn't realize how detailed it was Um, so this panel probably literally take them three days.

people didn't finish there. There's Ashley from the Academy Yeah, so they are just starting these panels and, you know, working on them.

But I thought it was really, I loved it. And another reason why I kind of want to take this is nobody's really doing this in Atlanta.

And I always, so Courtney, I always try to stay ahead of the game, right? So I'm always like, this has been around for hundreds of years, it's a very specialized craft.

It's a very specialized technique. People who do this, they do this for a living. So this is, yeah, this is the instructor, Ellie, so like I said, she'll be in January.

So this is the original, this is the finished panel. Oh, I thought I was going to get a close up.

Let's see if she has a close up.


@27:54 - Linda

So do they do whole walls in there?


@27:57 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

do they do it like a No, she does cold walls. She does accent walls feeling Whatever you can your heart desires.

She can do this was Venetian plaster class. We're on Francis His Venetian plaster is very kind of I Don't know what to call it's different a different can say different But he uses a lot of wax on his Venetian plaster things like that So people like this class that they were doing like old world or wine sellers like that That's where he you'll see a lot of his stuff So he had a really good class too, this is Ellie again So there's a close-up.


@28:48 - Courtnee’s iPad

Oh, I like him with the frame.


@28:50 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah, that's the minute product Um, so this is endless. It's I mean she had a 5,000 square foot studio

So you can imagine how many different molds and everything she has because she makes mold and you can make the same techniques into a mold.

So I guess that way you don't have to carve it out each time. Pour it into a mold and you put the mold up.

You know what I'm saying? But I'm excited for her to come in January because I do want, I am going to work with her so I'll open that up to you guys.


@29:29 - Courtnee’s iPad

So this is for a weekend every year?


@29:33 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

For a week once a year.


@29:34 - Courtnee’s iPad

Oh, it's a week.


@29:35 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Okay. The whole week. So this is people always ask me how do I know all this stuff? How do I, you know, and I'm like, because I'm involved.

All right, you have to actually study your craft. And so I doubt it's the number one organization for decorative artists in the US.

I mean, we have members overseas to obviously, but this is where I go. to train once a year.


@30:03 - Courtnee’s iPad

So is it all is it in the same state every year or day move it around?


@30:07 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

No, we move it around.


@30:08 - Courtnee’s iPad

Okay.


@30:09 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

For sure. The Expo was really nice. So all these are Expo pictures that was our meeting. Let me see if we can go back and go from down.

This thing goes so fast.


@30:32 - Courtnee’s iPad

And you said you were the only that is teaching.


@30:37 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

The only one in the same queue as myself. The only black person? Yeah, that's it. That would be trying to be what should I say?

A DEI? would be the only one on the board too? Yeah. Yeah, we had a really good expo from bio golden.


@31:08 - Linda

Oh, wow.


@31:10 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

It was good expo. Everybody got a bag full of stuff product. They give you so much stuff.


@31:16 - Courtnee’s iPad

You got to ship it home.


@31:18 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

That's golden paintwork was there. Now, this gentleman, he sold kind of fabric backing. So you could do your wallpaper on it.

I could do my alcohol. Alcohol inks on it, but it's like plastic base. U. S. G. A lot of people there.


@31:37 - Linda

That's the gold leaf.


@31:40 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Get gilded surfaces.


@31:42 - Linda

Yeah, but it was a great.


@31:45 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

It was a really good conference. You learn a lot. For sure, stencil certification. So that Caroline Linda Caroline. Yeah.

she's back on her feet she she she's long yep i didn't even recognize i knew she was coming but i didn't recognize her oh yeah how was she doing she's doing so much better she she's using a walker uh-huh hundred percent better sure and Williams was there um i don't know oh here she is wow Caroline oh man so she's doing really good so happy to see her up and about yeah she got down to 80 pounds that's what i heard yeah she's done yeah she's doing really good let me see if i have some more classes to show you guys but yeah Courtney this is definitely an investment you have to make in for business um who have to fall finishers really around the country oh they're


@33:00 - Linda

done from Caroline. Yeah, so this is my class.


@33:05 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

This is my class, but we had a good time in there. I forgot take pictures though. That was it.

I didn't get any more pictures outside of that because I was either working or in class. But yeah, I think that was the last of them.


@33:21 - Linda

What's Caroline doing?


@33:24 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

I think she's just taking it easy.


@33:29 - Linda

know, don't think she works like that.


@33:32 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Oh, yeah. I would say she's retired.


@33:36 - Linda

I don't think she can do too much, you know.


@33:41 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Oh, this was my class. was like, class was this? was before we got started.


@33:48 - Linda

So meoed it or noble color or any of those people were they there?


@33:52 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

No, they just donated this ship. They didn't come. So we were out in the Midwest and so we lost a lot of sponsors that way.

Because most of us, answers are headquartered on the east coast. So when you start going out west, they don't like to travel like that.

But yeah, so that was the conference. a really nice time working this year. I hope we have a, I hope we do one next year.

I'll stop sharing. I hope we do one next year, but we have to see how, you know, see how the budget is because those conventions are very expensive.


@34:35 - Courtnee’s iPad

Is it usually around the same time every year?


@34:39 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

No, sometimes it's between people in spring, but ever since I'm in April and May, well, April-ish, but it got thrown off after pandemic.

So we haven't been, we haven't been back on April, like last year was April. This year was November.


@34:57 - Courtnee’s iPad

So gotcha.


@35:00 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

But we're probably going to be voting on dates probably in January. Okay.


@35:05 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yeah, I'm going to have to budget for that.


@35:07 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

would love to do. Yeah. So like I said, it won't be one this year, but I guess the next one would be not this April, but the following.

So you'll have plenty of time. And then what we're doing is we're not going to do a big convention like this.

We're just going to do many sessions Yeah, around the United States. there'll be one here at Roma bio in Atlanta.

I would be one in New York for Golden. I think Golden is in New York. So we're going to do all of the major, all of the major companies that we buy from.

We're going to do workshops with them.


@35:46 - Courtnee’s iPad

Okay.


@35:47 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah. So you can come throughout the year to those and they'll just be a weekend, but it won't be a big convention.


@35:53 - Courtnee’s iPad

Gotcha.


@35:56 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

So are you saying that 2025, they won't be? It won't be one to 20, and what I understand, but, um, you know, and I'm excited about the many that I'd like to call them many workshops.

I'm excited about that. I think that'll be a nice change of pay, especially we have them all over. And then that way we'll be able to expand the membership and grow the membership because not only now are we targeting our people or new people, we're targeting their people as well.

Because, you know, it's plenty of people that buy a room or buy all this and everyone heard of I down.

You know what I'm saying? So it's win-win. I think we're both, um, both ways. It goes both ways.


@36:42 - Courtnee’s iPad

Well, I'm excited.


@36:48 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

I think once you get in to start doing your techniques and your finishes, you'll be like, oh, okay, time for me to learn something new.


@36:56 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yeah.


@36:57 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

So that's why I never missed the convention. I'm always trying to expand my knowledge, expand my portfolio because those classes are good too because you come home with samples for your portfolio.

So you come home with sellable samples, which is good. Okay, so I guess that's about it. I just wanted to show you guys what we did in convention and show you my samples and just you know that's really kind of like your go-to when you're thinking about expanding your service offering.

It's kind of like one-stop-shot you can go and see what all is being offering in the market at that time and then you could take all the different courses.


@37:49 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yeah, that's why I like that. I like that.


@37:55 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

We had a good time. I'm hoping the next time we do it, it'll be back in Charlotte. Because when we go to Charlotte, high point, when we go to high point, we go to point, we always partner with the market, and so they let us come over for a day for free and enjoy the high point market during their market.


@38:17 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yeah.


@38:18 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

love the market.


@38:19 - Courtnee’s iPad

And you get to drink too.


@38:23 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah. Drink and eat.


@38:27 - Courtnee’s iPad

All day.


@38:27 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah. It's a lot. It's a lot. Um, but anyway, so are there any questions? Anybody?


@38:36 - Courtnee’s iPad

Sorry for the background noise.


@38:38 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

No, you're okay. I bet Caroline was glad to see you Toby. He was. We spent a lot of time together.

We got to catch up. So, um, she's actually going to do a Zoom call with me. Um, so hopefully we can get that set up for December.

Um, so Courtney Caroline is my mentor.


@38:59 - Courtnee’s iPad

Okay.


@39:00 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

the lady with the blonde hair. Oh, she's kind of how I got into it and, you know, everything I really know is old to her, especially how to run my business.

She got sick, so I haven't seen her in about 10 years, because she had pancreatic cancer.


@39:18 - Courtnee’s iPad

Oh, yeah, I don't really think. Usually I recover from that, but.


@39:23 - Linda

No.


@39:24 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah.


@39:26 - Linda

That is so many answers.


@39:27 - Courtnee’s iPad

There is major now.


@39:28 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Mm-hmm. She's doing really good.


@39:31 - Linda

Mm-hmm.


@39:32 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

So it was a blessing My people couldn't do Huh?


@39:37 - Linda

I was just saying she was, that's where I learned. Yeah. From the Caroline, yep.


@39:41 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah. So we don't have places like that anymore. So we used to have like school, you know, sit up where you could actually go and learn and take classes and things like that.


@39:52 - Linda

of those places have shut down. Mm-hmm.


@39:55 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

They don't really do that anymore.


@39:56 - Courtnee’s iPad

But is she in Georgia?


@39:58 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

No, she is in.


@40:00 - Linda

in Alabama.


@40:02 - Courtnee’s iPad

Oh, okay.


@40:03 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah, but she's not teaching or working anymore like that.


@40:07 - Linda

He was here in Georgia.


@40:09 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Yeah, when she got sick, she went home.


@40:12 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yeah, sure. Okay.


@40:14 - Linda

I wonder if she can't where Bob was.


@40:18 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Oh, I didn't even ask about Bob. I forget about Bob. I was too busy trying to figure out what want to wear her.

So I'll follow it with her. We're gonna probably talk this week or next week, and then I'll get her on an Academy Zoom call and then, know, I know she's working on a book right now, kind of different folk finishing book.

She is doing that in catalog and all these different types of finishes and formulas and things like that.


@40:50 - Courtnee’s iPad

So she's not working but she's working.


@40:54 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Right. She found a different way to enjoy her craft.


@40:58 - Linda

Yeah, yeah.


@41:00 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

But yes, she's going to and she's a legend. Yes, she is. She definitely is. I will definitely give her that in her own right.

Um, but all right. I think that is it for tonight. just want to kind of go over the convention, what we learned.

Why it's important to keep up and go to that. Kind of keep showing the cutting edge of what's out there.

And then you can make in relationships with the different vendors. It's always good to have relationships with people like that.

Okay. Well, I will see you guys in two weeks. You know what to find me, please confirm.


@41:45 - Courtnee’s iPad

Yeah.


@41:45 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

Say when you can. I will. If you have any questions, you know, you can always be in me in Slack or, you know, you can reach out message.


@41:55 - Courtnee’s iPad

Sounds good.


@41:56 - Tobey Renee The Faux Pro (fauxdecoronline.com)

All right, ladies. Well, I appreciate you guys have a wonderful.


@42:00 - Linda

We will see you guys soon. Alright, good night, night, night.

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