Writings on the Wall – the Blog

Ahhhh…. summertime.

I’m reminded of a song from my Sunday School days:

Oh what do you do in the summer time? Do you  (I can’t remember the list of things, but it was long and made up of stuff that kids do in the summer.)
Oh what do you do in the summer time? Is that what you do? So do I!

Ballgames, camping, working in the garden, slapping mosquitoes, endless hours laying by the pool waving for the cabana boy to refresh your juice drink…

Family reunions. Weddings.
Is that what you do? So do I!

We put together these two bits of gorgeousness for our friend Trudi. One for Mother’s Day and the other for her mother in law’s 99th birthday.
Trudi brought us a big stack of really cool photos to look at, but she already knew which ones she wanted to use.  So we scanned them and  arranged them and made a nice little montage with an antique background  for each block. Then we printed and mounted them to the blocks.
The photos were not originally sepia toned, but by tinting them it made them blend together better.
(Pay no attention to that messy worktable in the background.)
Wouldn’t these make a wonderful giveaway or presentation for a family reunion?
How about a wedding?  Anniversary party?

Now that you’re all inspired to make something like this for your own family, click over to Writings on the Wall to this page right here and see how we can make this happen for you.

Glass blocks ain’t just for Christmas, you know!

I hope everybody is having a wonderful Memorial weekend. Three blissful days of sunshine and family and remembrance.

While I will be enjoying a little of each of those in the next couple of days, today I am at my shop CLEANING!  (ack) I had no idea you could pack that much sawdust into a semi-small room. Now the vast majority is in trashbags and on its way to the dumpster.
The rest is in my hair. Now I know what I’ll look like in a few years when I go gray.

It’s been overcast and rainy today, so I’m not missing any sunshine opportunities by being indoors.

I don’t mind the rain in the spring when its not really cold,  just a little coolish.

And I really don’t mind it when I can look out my bedroom window and see all the green and the beautiful honeysuckle just on the other side of the glass.

Enjoy the weekend!

It’s been a heck of a pair of weeks here at the casa de signs and vinyl lettering.

Mother’s day is always a busy time for us and I’m happy that I can be here to pull someone’s backside out of the fire with a last minute gift or two. I would make fun of the wait-till-the-last-minute people, but I’m just as bad or worse. That’s why my mom’s new computer game was stylishly wrapped in snowman gift wrap…

There’s been some sunshine pouring down in to our neck of the woods — yay! maybe now I can ditch the flannel shirts until next fall- – and that means signage on vehicles.

I spent a few  hours yesterday designing and then applying lettering to a truck. I love it and so does the owner.
As you can see, we offer vinyl lettering not only for your walls, but for your business and business vehicles as well. Logo design too.

Big red truck logo

Big red truck second shot

Honk and wave if you see him driving down the freeway. He’ll have NO idea why you’re acting like that, but he’s a really nice guy so I’m sure he’ll wave back.

It was a beautiful day to spend some time outside – made even better by the fact I get paid to do this! (Sometimes it’s pretty great to be me.)

Well?
What are you gonna do?
Have you picked out the perfect gift for your mom yet?
How about Grandma?

Well…
If you need a little help with your gift giving, you know I’m here to help ya out.

There’s still plenty of time to order something wonderful that’s customized just for the special mother in your life.

A big wonderful clock, perhaps?

A nice tile for her dresser?

Something sentimental for the wall?

And of course….
there’s always a gift certificate just in case you know it’s just easier to let Mom pick out what she wants.

Click over here to the Mom’s day stuff and have a look for yourself. (It’s okay to choose something for yourself too, cuz it saves on shipping to combine more than one item, you know.)

There are a number of layouts in the store for you to choose from, but if you need something custom give me a call or drop an email, cuz you know I want you to have exactly what you want.

Oh my word we’ve been busy little workers around here.
The weather has been fabulous so we’re working outside installing graphics on store windows, trucks, vans and a bunch of other stuff that wasn’t moving.
Just be warned that if you park your car out in front of the shop for very long… we’re gonna stick something on it.

This past weekend I held my breath and moved all my websites and this blog to a new host.
Worrying about all the things that could go wrong took way longer than the actual transfer. Several hours and a whole lot of coffee later, we’re up and running on a new and just a little bit zippier server.
Yes, I spent hours and hours scratching my head and mumbling just so that everything looks exactly the same and nobody can tell the difference, but I know and that’s good enough.
Trust me… it’s better.

Now Mother’s Day is coming up way too fast, so I’ve gotta go and upload some of the great designs we’ve made just in case you need something for your mom.  I might need something for my mom too.
Maybe for her bathroom…