Well I was wondering where the follow up comments for the Buda swap were! So glad I revisited this thread. I really enjoyed meeting you all and putting a face to some of the forum participants, learning about new plants and being on the receiving end of warm and generous swappers. I spent much of the afternoon after the swap finding a new home in my garden for all the plants although I will admit that I forgot what some are! And then I went online to google information about some of them and their care. Thank you so much Charlotte and swappers for making my first swap experience such a pleasant one and I hope to be much better prepared and knowledgable when I come to the next one. While I got to talk a bit with some of you, I feel there are many more who I'd like to get to know. Patty has been sharing some swap etiquette information with me and I hope you all will provide me a bit of slack if I overstepped, as I'm still a bit fuzzy about rules/etiquette and expectations. And I invite you to contact me if you have any advice or comments about our interaction as that will be a big help and an opportunity to get to know you. Already plotting in preparation for the next swap and might like to also bring some nonplant garden items to share with you. Cal

just beautiful! thanks for sharing. I just painted my mbr BM Abalone. It is a light/medium gray that also reads a bit purple. I love how the Abalone looks and was looking for something a bit darker for the master bathroom. Going to get a sample jar of this today :0)

westleyandbuttercup, thank you so much for the pics! your home is beautiful, and the color is perfect. Indygo-girl, those are just pics from the internet, not of my house sadly. I love the one with the stone fireplace... sigh. We decided to do a custom color in between both Thunder and Smoke Embers, so a little more gray than Thunder, a little warmer/more brown undertone than Smoke Embers by itself. Hopefully it works out. :-)

Purrus, Kelly Moore was founded in the Bay Area. Today it's got stores in California, Texas, Nevada, and Oklahoma. Funny assortment of states. I live in the North Bay Area and KM seems to be the brand the pros prefer around here. We have plenty of SW and BM stores as well, so it's not due to lack of availability. I've had the people at KM mix other brands' colors exactly. In fact, SW Requisite Gray took them three attempts but they got it dead on and only charged me for one sample quart. Now, after all that, I think I'm going with a KM color after all.