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| Taking down the old sign |
So many moons ago (23 of them to be exact), we set up an obscenely tall ladder on the gentle slope that is our road and spent some time
fixing up the Chestnut Walk archway that presides over the entry to the Inn. Although the arch is pretty solid, it is also quite tall and sways alarmingly when one is fifteen feet or so up on a ladder.
We painted the chipping sign and removed the old bed and breakfast sign that was hanging from the archway. This was necessary both to take down the old name (which we had no ownership of) and it helped slow the flow of people coming to see the Inn. We love visitors, but at the time parts of the house and grounds were unsafe and we had all kinds of projects in various states of completion. In other words, it's been a bit of a mess.
But now the honey-do list has shrunk from a thousand things to a mere five hundred and we are actually getting ready for our grand opening! So we decided to put up a new sign.
We decided on a painted wood sign for now, in the shape of our leaf logo. What, you thought we would do a simple rectangle? Crazy talk.
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| We painted the sign grey and then hand painted the leaf outline in red laquer |
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| Next we hand lettered the Inn name with a black Sharpie paint pen - I love these things |
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| Hanging the sign - a little to left, honey! |
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| The finished sign, mostly straight and almost centered |
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