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Yesterday afternoon we encountered a banner emergency.
The new manager of a local grocery store came in to my shop with a frantic and frazzled look on his face.
He had a rolled banner tucked under his arm and 2 hours to make it ready for  the rodeo arena where it would be displayed as a sponsor banner.
The problem?
No grommets to hang it with.

Well then…
I resisted my natural tenancy to lecture and tell him that if he had ordered his banner from ME it would already have grommets in it. He already knew that. He was aware of this fact by the stack of nearly finished banners spread across my work table. Banners with GROMMETS in the corners.

He begged. He pleaded. He found the perfect bribe.
That’s right folks.
He offered me coffee. Lots of coffee.

So while I pushed my already scheduled work aside to install the desperately needed metal rings, he zoomed back to his store and loaded up on several different flavors and blends in big ol’ robust bags.

So now he has a banner at the rodeo and I will be well caffeinated for the next two months.

I love my job!

I know what you’re thinking.
You’re thinking…
It’s been weeks since Becky has updated this blog. She is a total slacker!

Am NOT!
It’s summertime. I’ve been outside.
I’ve been…. ummmm… busy. Making stuff. Thinking about stuff.  You know… doing stuff.

But…
Fall will soon be upon us. It’s almost here.
Why, the county fair is next week and that marks the end of most of the summertime activities for most people.  School starts, vacation’s over, the days are a little cooler. (We’re certainly ready for that!)
It also means that we start puttering INSIDE the house and getting ready to nest up for the winter.

That means I’ll be bringing you some how-tos and some links to other places that are all about making your home cozy and reflective of you and your family.

New things coming up and I am so excited!

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…