About
Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. -Confucious
Most of the time this is true. I love what I do.
No two days are the same. One day it’s a big vinyl order for a ladies group, the next it’s a banner or a vehicle. No time to be bored, that’s fer shur.
From the time I was a very young girl I knew that I wanted to be an artist when I grew up.
I adore the smell of a box of crayons. The odor of turpentine makes me pretty happy too.
Paper… ah paper.
Sigh… reams of unspoiled gleaming possibilities. Yeah… I have kind of a fetish for really nice paper. Or semi nice. Okay, paper makes me happy too.
When I grew a little older, I discovered calligraphy. The art of beautifully writing. Oh man, I was so hooked.
The feel of a steel pen, ink on your knuckles, holding your breath as you form each letter so perfectly…. yeah good times.
Then came the airbrush gently into my life. We became kindred spirits, the airbrush and I.
My friend the airbrush helped me to realize that I could make a living doing what I love.
Then…. the quill brush. Dip it into sign painting enamel, dip it into turpentine, work it on the palet and let it flow like magic onto the surface and form the most perfect of letters. Heaven smells like turps, you know.
I started this business many many years ago hand lettering signs and airbrushing t-shirts.
The computer came along 10 years later and changed my whole life.
I still make signs, but now the designs are configured on the computer screen and there’s this amazing machine that cuts whatever form I tell it to into a thin sheet of vinyl.
The computer has been my primary tool for the past 12 years. When I first started using this spiffy tool, there was a good selection of fonts available. NOW… well the abundance of letter forms available for our use is astounding. And fun. And addictive.
Now, I go to work in my shop every day and make and design signs, and build websites and write in my blog and drink a lot of coffee and talk on the phone… I do what I love.
How lucky is that?
