Hi Everyone...My name is Tammy.
I've been exposed to the painting business since 1987, when I talked my exhubby into going out on his own after working for his uncle for five years. I asked him where he wanted to work, and he told me the neighborhoods...and I figured out how to get the names and addresses in those neighborhoods, and I wrote to each and everyone of them. Low and behold, the work started coming in, and it never stopped. I always marketed well before I thought I needed to, and I figured out pretty early, that that was the key to staying in business, (besides doing good work, etc., etc.).
After the ending of my marriage, I realized that I needed to learn how to earn my own living, because YES, there is such a thing as a woman not taking a SINGLE penny from her soon to be ex husband (call me stubborn, call me proud, but don't call me a taker!), so I thought Faux was the way to go for me. I've always been an artist, and I did do all of the faux work for our company, so I thought that was a no brainer.....boy was I WRONG!!!
Well, after 10 years of dealing with designers, which are a total pain in the @ss, and dealing with the rich @sswholes....hehehe....this is so fun....lol....that look at me like I'm just a slime bag, and put me through way too much bull stuff....
I finally figured out that I'm a painter at heart because I love the fact that everything is pretty much cut and dried (don't get me wrong, I'm NOT saying it's easy) and it is so much more straight forward. I do know that I have soooo much to learn, because painting is way more technical, than doing faux finishes...at least that's the way I see it anyways. There is so much to know and learn and I really hope that you can help me figure out how to do a top notch job.
Hopefully, I make sense....afterall, it is Friday night, and I've been sipping a few glasses of wine.....yikes!!!!
Well, besides painting, I love to shoot skeet competively, hunt...birds and big game, ride motorcycles, scuba dive, hang out with my kids...which so happen to be my good buddies, travel and see what the world has to offer, go to the Huskers football games....GO BIG RED!!!!! and any thing else that just so happens to tickle my fancy.
Hopefully I'll be able to help you someday....I'm really good at the marketing thing.
Love Ya!!