Mar or Apr from Geo - Yay sign

This is from Geo - not my husband Geo, AKA MrWilson. I'm curious about envelope Geo. I'm curious about this design. I've been feeling this way. It looks a little ominous - but - I'm not a Pollyanna type of person. If I were to steal this idea I would do the exact same thing on the front and then I'd do sunshine and a rainbow on the back. I'm OK with the stamp - but one of those black moon ones would have been great.

Speaking of Geo-people - the Geo-husband asked me to look at a layout he had before he ordered it. He's retired and his main activity is working at a couple food pantries. One is in a public school. He doesn't' know how to avoid extra work and took on the task of making a sign for Teacher Appreciation Day - which is fine - although - technically the food pantry has nothing to do with the teachers.

Even though he did not want to ask me to make him a sign - he must have had some weird intuition that if he showed me his *layout* - I would take pity on him.

Here it is. This is his idea for a 6 ft x 3 ft sign. He was going to spend $45 for a sign that looked like this.

I deserve some kind of award for maintaining my composure when he showed it to me. I said in a very gentle voice, "Well, it's a little industrial. I'd be happy to make something more colorful. Would that be OK?" He said, "Sure. I didn't want to bother you." I said it was fine - I'd be happy to do it. And I did it as fast as I could.

I have one deep regret. Make that two. I was not fond of the wording - but I didn't know if someone else had given the words to him - so I didn't want to propose different words and put him in an awkward position. Or if he had come up with those words, I didn't want to insult him. His undergraduate degree was in English and mine was not. In fact, I got my undergraduate degree and the only *paper* I wrote in those 4 years was 3-page, handwritten book report. Maybe I should share the whole story someday.

The second regret is the placement of the tag line - I really wish I had lettered it between two wavy lines and done a font that was short and fat - to fill that space better. Just a flourish on the h would have been so much better. And I would have made the YAY smaller and the TEACHERS a little larger. But, I really did just chalk it out in 3 minutes and paint it in less than half an hour.

Third regret - I wish I had used a much larger brush for the border. It's wimpy.

Fourth regret - bees. Why didn't I add some bees. Grrrrr

If you ever want to make a sign - start with colored paper - it's so much easier to make things pop - although you have to use paint. Markers would have been muddy.

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Update - MrWilson shared with me all the comments that the sign received. Positive comments. I just roll my eyes. It's so easy to impress people - all you have to do is something by hand....