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Showing posts with label At The Shop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label At The Shop. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Making A Sign: The Wrong Way

and the right way.  I had this wonderful brain storm for a shop sign.  I have lots of ice cream bucket lids and they never seem to equal the number of buckets I have.  So I gathered eight lids.
And painted them
Not exactly the order this should be done.
I trimmed the edge off so I would have a flat surface.
Again, NOT the order in which this should be done.
Here's where my idea is headed.
Cut a letter, attach magnetic tape, attach said letters to metal sign.
Once again, this is not the way to do this.
First cut your letters
then paint
then add strips of magnetic tape
to the back
not the front.
The sticky will pull the paint off
and how will the letter work with the magnet on the front???
Do not draw the letter on the back...
it will be backwards!
Draw the letter on the paint 
that should not have been there yet.
Attach the tape to the BACK of the letter
Remember to turn the letters over
and 
THEN
paint them
somewhere you do not want the letters to show 
on the ground!!!
Now the metal sign is changeable
and is hammered to China in the ground.
So you can take the letters in
when the day is done.
I'm afraid I spelled it wrong!
I have added dark green to my techno-colored hands
while this guy laughed
the entire time!

Friday, May 2, 2014

At The Shop

People
One by one
Different
Than the last
Come to look
Walking
Down
Memory lane
They smile
And buy
Memories
That were lost
Or merely forgotten
We sell
The past
And the younger years
Are quite a commodity

For the challenge at Imaginary Garden With Real Toads.
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