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Anchor's Away: a Sprayed Stencil DIY

With a culture as rich as ours, it isn’t uncommon for physical objects to hold significance beyond their intended purpose, whether it’s three arrows in eternally chasing each other reminding us to protect our planet and recycle, or a heart with no intention of pumping blood throughout the body but rather showing affection and care to those we love. Such symbolism appears in emojis and doodles, and holds significance in art and design. When used amongst decor, these signs can be be powerful and beautiful, not to mention a simple DIY accent.

The anchor is a common...

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Our Thoughts are With Those Affected by the Midwest Tornados

While Preval usually welcomes the opportunity to refresh and renovate, our focus today is on rebuilding. Sunday’s tornado’s hit very close to home and our thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected.

If you haven’t followed these events The Weather Channel has informational coverage of the storms on Storify:

 


If you are local to Coal City, the Coal City Methodist Church is looking for volunteers to serve food and...

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Marine Gelcoats - What You'll Need to Know

At Preval, we want to help you accomplish the projects you need to get done, and we're confident that our products can help you do it.  So we're going to give you some guides on how to do more specialized tasks with our Spray Powered technology.  Today, let's look at the process of applying a marine gelcoat to kick your boat up a notch.

Prepare prepare prepare - Get it out of the way or seal it up

The key to a quality gelcoat repair is all about getting fully prepared before you start.  That includes getting...

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Favourite Florals and Charming ‘Chalk’ Paint DIY

In today’s #colourseries we are jumping across the pond and minding the gap, all in time for tea and biscuits.

While many associate the term ‘English Rose’ with a fair skinned, dark haired, rosy cheeked Brit it also refers to a gorgeous tea rose-like flower and a lovely shade of pink. The ‘shabby chic’ revolution is responsible for making English Rose design a staple in the quintessential delicate decor. In prints, the English Rose is frequently featured on a bed of minty blue or snowy white and...

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Protect Your Pastels with Preval

Are you a pastel, charcoal, watercolor, or ink artist?  Do you worry about retaining your hard work after a long project?  The dread of smudges is a thing of the past, as are the extravagant costs of sealing with other mediums.  Instead of spending an arm and a leg preserving your work, consider the Preval alternative.

Garry McMichael, a pastel artist in St. Louis, Missouri, knows this all too well.  Using the Preval Sprayer he is now able to seal his pastel masterpieces in a more cost effective and simpler way.

When he’s done...

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