Almost about seven years ago we created an elaborate entrance sign and street number system for a beautiful subdivision called Oyama. Each property sign featured classic Japanese characters of positive attributes and their meanings as well as their street number. Recently we got a call from one of the residents to do up a replacement sign as theirs had gone missing. It took some digging to come up with photos of the old project. I also took a drive out to the subdivision to gather measurements and colour information. The gold leafed signs we did were all holding up extremely well. Today we routed the replacement and in the next few days will add the paint and gold leaf and then install it in it's rightful place. It was fun to go back to see a project long forgotten.
Board silly
The fence on the neighbour's side is now almost fully painted with it's base coats and the glazing has started. That's when the real magic happens. With both glazes on and wiped down it is hard to believe these 'boards' are actually hand sculpted from concrete. The crew is doing an amazing job!
Beautiful downtown Yarrow
One of the subjects I am speaking about at the sign conference in the fall is how we successfully market our dimensional signs. I fully expect to hear someone comment about how it is easy to sell quality signs where I live but they couldn't do it where they are. But they really have no idea of how things really are. The reason is that we live in Yarrow, a tiny village of only 1,500 people. It is a fabulous place to live and work but the 'downtown' is only one block long with about a dozen businesses. We live at the east end of the downtown on this same block but still have farmland adjacent to our property. Besides our sign there are only two others which we created. While many sign makers fear the internet because of the competition they face online we embrace it wholeheartedly and use it to market our unique and quality product.
