We were very pleased to receive our copy of this year’s Signs of the Times magazine award issue and see we had been honoured with a second and third place in the Best Signshop-Designed and Fabricated Sign, Not Internally Illuminated category.
Jan's Carousel signs
The beautiful Carousel at Vala’s Pumpkin Patch is named in honour of Jan, one of the founders of the farm. The prancing horse was sculpted by Peter, and the sign lettering is 23K gold leaf. The two weathervanes on the buildings feature the Mustang horse because Jan’s prized car was a Ford Mustang.
Heavy hauler
Another of my favourite photo ops at Vala’s Pumpkin Patch is this little flatbed truck with a giant pumpkin on the back deck. Like the little red truck I posted a couple of days ago, it is all steel construction. The pumpkin is made from hand-sculpted fibreglass-reinforced concrete. The duelly truck has a hidden frame underneath to keep the front wheels suspended in the air, supposedly because of the heavy pumpkin on the deck. This feature was a lot of fun to imagine and build!
