stephanie allard
New Member
My husband and I own and operate a small sign shop-Porcupine Signs- out of our home in Perry, Maine. We do not advertise and get all our business by word-of-mouth. Pretty easy to do in a small town! He teaches full time at the local community college, and I teach there part time. Our sign business allows me to stay home with our 2 kids and keeps us busy during the summer months when we're not teaching. We do everything but neon. Neither of us is formally trained in sign making techniques but he is a computer wiz and we are both visually inclined and handy with the construction end of things. We acquired the business when the great and very talented sign maker Eliott Fishbein, who lived in our town, died in a car accident. We've been learning the trade ever since. Sometimes the lessons are hard ones (like when I painted a sign using interior grade latex paint only to drive by a few weeks later to see the vinyl peeling off.....) We've learned a LOT in the past 7 years but frequently have questions about things (I have a specific question now-which is why I joined- about how to deal with oxidizing paint which I'll post soon). I look forward to learning from the vast amount of information presented in this site, and from you, my fellow sign makers.
Cheers-
Stephanie
Cheers-
Stephanie
