Ha! You people are too kind. Dang kid turned 7 yesterday. I'm left wondering where those 7 years went. We all had a good day, and he is left with even more toys that we don't have room for in this house. I think it's time for another giveaway(we never throw the old ones out. I always donate them to some charity. Often times, barely even used) I will let him know that he got a birthday wish on my cottage board. Thanks!

There are very good reasons why full spectrum paint color was never in the main pipeline of paint world. The staff behind the Ben Moore counters don't know what to do with it, don't know how to sell it, don't know how to support it. They can hand-paint as many pieces of paper as they want to, the display can completely rock it out, but the bottom line when it comes to color is always expertise. Paint companies do not have high levels of color expertise -- they are paint experts, not color experts. Paint expert and color expert really are mutually exclusive. Instead, their m.o. is to reach down their own consumer chain to designers and make them "spokespersons" or whatever. Without fail those spokespeople always think color marketing and color trends are part of the solution. Not sure they can articulate HOW color trends offer consumers solutions. I think it's more accurate to say trends are all they CAN think of to talk about. And that's because they don't have any bona fide color expertise whatsoever to rely on for developing tangible consumer solutions. A typical designer spokesperson will absolutely get eaten alive in the current full spectrum color market -- for numerous reasons. Just like every other paint manufacturer, Ben Moore is not strong in the architectural color expertise arena and they surely don't have the in-house color power to support FS concepts. Starting from the very top right down the guy behind their paint counter. Even if they do know who the right people are to reach out to externally to fix their FS issues, I'm not sure they're willing to do it. I'm interested to see how long consumers are willing to do all the work of *selling themselves* a $70 can of paint, swim upstream against uninformed staff and/or staff who don't understand or BELIEVE in the FS philosophy, and then proceed to convince themselves how it was really worth their herculean efforts it in the end. I'm off to pop some popcorn. . .

It seems like only yesterday you and Claude were announcing the birth of Sophie. You have a lovely family Nicole. Beautiful,happy children. You and Claude also have my respect and admiration for being such great parents.

Well, I do not have Eternity in my house so I can't provide the kind of answer you're looking for. However, I do have a few thoughts to share that you may - or may not :) - find useful. AF-695 Eternity's hue family is blue. Here is the full hue/value/chroma color notation: 2.31B hue / 7.61 value / 0.23 chroma AF-700 Storm's hue family is yellow. 9.52 Y hue / 6.43 value / 0.12 chroma. Here's a sortable table of color notations for all the colors in the Affinity color collection. I don't do "undertones" especially with regard to paint colors because I think it's an ineffective at best, technically incorrect at worst, way to look at/think about color. For example, one probably would never guess that Storm's hue family is yellow. But it is yellow, on the cusp of green-yellow. And that's exactly why you think it reads as having " no undertones". The majority of whites and grays that people perceive as "true with no undertones" belong to a hue family in the yellow, green-yellow, green range. The Affinity deck is not arranged in any particular, technically precise spectral order. It looks like somebody just eyeballed it. So it's not correct to think that Eternity is "one down" from Storm meaning it's the same color but lighter. In addition to dissuading folks from the misleading pitfalls of "undertones", I also don't recommend cutting formulas. Because as you already know, you don't know what it's going to look like until you do it and once you start down that path, you own the gallons whether you like how they end up or not. The chroma part of the notation tells you how colorful or chromatic the color is. Eternity is already pretty low at 0.23. And its value is 7.61. My guess is lessening the colorant load, if possible at all, is going to shift the color from a "gray" category to a "white" category. Better off to just keep looking for the right light gray vs. monkeying around with cutting formulas, IMO. If you want to understand the Affinity color collection and hue families better, I suggest you reorder the deck according to the color notations. I walk you thru how to do it in this blog post and video: Put the Affinity Color Collection in Hue Family order I get more emails about that post than any other at The Land of Color. Many have told me that simple exercise of reordering the fandeck was life-changing and once they see the Affinity colors in proper hue family order they finally understand my point of view about "undertones".