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I was born an artist but have made more cha-ching from signs than I would if I had to wait till I died to become famous. :) I am particularly good at sketching people, or was, 30 years ago. I don't have to look at something to draw it or copy something, it's just there. I am also good with...

Scriptina, I think. Love....Jill

Can you contact your vinyl manufacturer and ask them? Sounds kind of tricky to me, like the jobs I get! :) Love....Jill

http://www.plan59.com/galleries/scarykids/scarykids.htm I have to paint a mini fridge this week and I was looking for some sort of 1950s looking pictorial of a kid's face. Just something goofy to check out. Love....Jill

THAT WAS IT!!!!!!!! Thank you thank you thank you. Big hugs. I knew it was some basic thing that I was too stupid to remember. Ahhhh (sigh of relief)

I shut down my 4E last November. It was getting too choppy for cut vinyl but still worked great for pounce patterns. Yesterday I took everything up to my garage. It's not even a whole year later and I am clueless as to how to set this up now. I plugged the 4E into my ancient Win98SE, which...

Arthur Vanson's Flash Script or Red Sable Script are both based in the 1930s-40s off the lettering of Cecil Wade. Both are nice. There are also some of Alf Becker's scripts available thru The Fontry He was a great lettering artist of the day whose alphabets were featured monthly in Signs of...

Aw bless. Congratulations and enjoy. He'll be 27 in about 10 minutes like my first boy. Love...Jill

I thought it was smaltz too. You're sneaky....but I like that. Looks fresh as a daisy. Love....Jill

Yup I have seen this. Makes me think of my dear friend Bill Berberich. He's getting "up there" in age but he still gets way up there to paint. This week I am helping him with a pattern for a 20 foot tall can of Miller Lite. :) Nobody but nobody can do a wet blend like Bill. Love....Jill

In a 10 mile radius I have: Sandblasted shop-friendly and we've sent jobs to each other. Monument sign shop-used to be a regular sign shop in my home town, applied there at 17 and he told me I'd never be a signpainter, I guess I should thank him but he's a douche. I don't like to be told...

When someone bugs me on the phone I flat out will not buy from them. Maybe that's just me. I can see the sense in physically going to meet a person but not phone solicitation. I only cold-call (in person) when there is only one moldy pork chop in the fridge and a dried up block of cheese.

If someone calls me trying to sell me something I never buy it, I think that's a nuisance. I would not cold "call" people on the phone.

Sam's Club sells 'em cheap. Welcome from PA! Love....Jill

For comparison purposes, my dear friend works for a union sign shop. He gets $16/hour + bennies etc. last time we talked about $$ (which is something I usually never talk about with friends) He always wants to get me in there (I'd love it) but I have to start out as a journeyman wall...

I have been there. It's absolutely terrifying. When it was happening to me a lot of sign forum folks said it was my attitude, but it was hard to be positive when I was so broke I was forced to charge my groceries on a credit card. You know what actually worked? I got a "real" job! It forced...

I like Blaney's idea. But if I did that here more than likely they would just take my donuts and be insulted that I tried to improve their nephew art, then let the nephew play with the little van. :)

I think you need to consult your 10 year old kid. :) Love....Jill PS In all seriousness. It is very weak. And the name implies cheap. I would start in black and white, lose the gradients, and try a bolder font.

Or that white nurse kind of shoe polish. :) Love...Jill

Yes no primer, I was really facing a tight deadline that day. I had given my only can of white lettering enamel to a sign pal and I didn't realize it was my last can. I was about a week out of a meet hosting 250 people and a year of planning on very little sleep and was about 75% dead. So I...