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Having visited Mike Myers backyard gallery of signs at the Mezzeppa Letterhead, meet few years back, It had left a lasting impression on me and had always wanted to start something similar.
Yesterday I received a call from a woman that I had done a sign for her daughter's café a while back. The daughter went off to college a year ago and the café has been closed since then. The daughter has decided to travel the world for a while.
The mother is renting the building out, and wanted to know if I would like the sign back. She had remembered how much I liked the sign and more that once she had caught me sitting across the street in my truck, staring at the sign. I think she once called me her sign stalker.
I am happy to have the sign return home, and I made her a promise to keep it in good shape in case the daughter comes home to roost and the the café re-opens.
Until then, my backyard gallery has it's first piece.
monk
-------------------- Sandy "Monk" Baird Windwalker Sign Studio Port Colborne, Ontario L3K 4H9 Posts: 442 | From: Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Jun 2004
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It is 6 foot long and 3 feet high and made entirely with extira. Benjamin Moore paint...no vinyl. The Kindred lettering is 3/4" set into a .100 pocket. The marketplace lettering is hogged out 1/4" deep.
I really like this mother and daughter pair, and since the sign is back home here up on the wall I have enjoyed sitting with a can of coke and getting reacquainted.
It's funny how it's return has seems to have warmed up the work area, and it's the first thing I see every time I walk through the door.
The sign has always been a bit unfinished. The 24 year old daughter was doodling one day when I was there, and she had drawn a stick figure of herself as a little girl. I suggested that we place the image behind the sign, but there was little room above and below on the wall where it was going. I redrew her sketch in a way that I though was both playful and still fit in the space we had to work with.
The sign had to go up quickly, as they where about to have their grand opening, and things got busy for both of us and it was never really completed. Maybe when things slow down this winter, I will add a little cnc red headed girl to the sign.
-------------------- Sandy "Monk" Baird Windwalker Sign Studio Port Colborne, Ontario L3K 4H9 Posts: 442 | From: Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Jun 2004
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Great sign- no wonder you enjoy looking at it!
-------------------- Catharine C. Kennedy CCK Graphics 1511 Route 28 Chatham Center, NY 12184 cck1620@taconic.net "Look at me, Look at me, Look at me now! I't's fun to have fun, But you have to know how!" Posts: 2173 | From: downtown Chatham Center, NY | Registered: Feb 2004
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