Thank you so much Ilia!
I know they seem like silly insiginificant questions that any simplton should be able to figure out for his or herself, but sometimes its those questions, or those little problems that make all the difference. I just want to make sure that i provide for myself a solid foundation to learn this art upon, picking the least bad habits up along the way as possible. And i know that answers have been posted for most questions at one point or another on this forum, but the information does vary from time to time, and at times - contradicts, and the tiny things that by some may be taken for granted are often over looked. But the best teacher is experience.
I am slowely trying to pull together my own buisiness in the Decorative Arts here in my hometown peice by peice. I have an excellant foundation in interior design and commercial and residential painting, working for my family for the past 5 years, meticulously learning the ins and outs of painting (however meticulous house painting can get), for i come from a long line of painters, however comical that may seem. But at the end of the day when i am done the walls and the ceilings and trim and prep, i go home to the studio and emmerse myself in my true love for art, oil and sculpture. Now i am fusing the two together to do what i know i can do best. So my point is i want to be able to provide my costomers with the option of fresco ohh soo very very much. I have been reading everything i could find on it for years, dreaming about it, learning it in my mind even though i couldn't with my hands. And then at last i found this site, saved up enough money to order the Lime putty you offer and called to do so. Of course, being a canadian i foudn out that you couldn't ship it to me because of the charge the governemtn hits you with down the road, but the man on the phone was nice enough to tell me about construction lime, and that i could use it firs to practice and get the hang of it. Fire Crackers went off in my head. Not to say that it wasn't almost as equallly difficult of an adventure trying to find the right sort of hydrated lime around here, but i did. and here i am. Painting Fresco. So I'm happy. I want to cover this city in it. Im 'Fresh Obsessed"! So, my point is to say Thank you very much for being here on this site, helping all of us and for just making a great place where we can all congregate together and discuss that which touches our soul so profoundly. Without this place i would be lost, light years behind. I wish so much with all my heart i could find some sort of apprentisship that I could dedicate myself to somewhere Anywhere. Maybe someday, but for now i am an apprentice of TrueFresco.com. And for that i am gratefull.
Keep up the good work, if i had a couple grand i would love to go to Baltimore with yo uguys and learn on the cathedral, but alas i do not and am heartbroken as a result . But i know you will do an awsome job, and i know that no matter where i am or how much help i have, that i will learn and i will master it come heaven or hell. Thank you for your time.

'Fresh Obsessed'
Ryan