Wait...Um...Carra, you may be saying, what is that horse thing doing there?

Well, among the other 3 squillion things I am doing at any given time, I am in charge of a national event, for which these are the awards.  Now the awards ones are just your basic gold and silver, but the volunteers for the event get one in a different color.  The chair of the event chooses the color.

Now, it's no great secret among the ARM faithful that I love paintwork.  I relish the process of picking a color for a car, deciding if it needs stripes or airbrush artistry.  Love. It.  I mean, I could live in the House of Kolor booth at SEMA.  No, really.

When it came time to pick my color for this, I decided it needed to be deep purple.  Metallic deep purple.  I contacted the person casting these for me and told her that and she said she could try to come up with something.  Hmmmm.  I told her if she could spray it, I would just go get car paint.  She can and away I went.

Now, the place i have been going for YEARS for car paint closed, so a bit of scrambling around later and I landed in automotive paint heaven.  I'm not going to lie, guys and gals, I could have stayed there all day making a mental note of all the dizzying array of colors this shop had.

In the end I walked out  with the perfect purple shade with red and blue microflake in it.  It is on the way to the caster now and I am so excited to see it on these medallions.