Banners and Business Cards in living color

"The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures." -- Frenand Leger

While working with vinyl is fun and filled with endless possibilities, the introduction of full color digital printing has opened up a whole new world of creativity.
Not to mention that working in full color is also a ton of fun.

Banners. Everybody needs em. We make em.
We make em bright and colorful and surprisingly affordable.
Like this one:
Trust me, our banners are absolutely gorgeous. The one pictured above is for an outdoor tent/booth, so it's 3 x 9 feet.

Now... to go along with the gorgeous banners that everyone needs, we offer business cards too.
Colorful business cards that match your banner or sign. They're not too spendy either.

Printed front and back with all of your pertinent information.

So when you're planning the advertising for your business... you know where to go. We specialize in banners for outdoor display booths as well as school, sports teams and business.
So give us a call, drop me an email, or "tweet" me and we'll create something dazzling for you.

To see a whole bunch of the stuff that's been created for our customers: CLICK HERE
*Confession: the designs you are looking at are created by MSGelter who also works here with me. He's very talented, but don't tell him I said so. He never reads this blog so he'll never know I said this.

Banners, Logos, Design and all that other stuff

Many of my online customers assume that I am cutting these cute little vinyl letter sticker thingys from the discomfort of my diningroom table.

Au contrair! (that's slaughtered French for "Nope!")

I've been in the sign making industry for many years and have owned and operated my shop here in Tremonton for going on 10 years now.
It's a full time labor of love. No kitchen or dining room tables were injured or abused during the production of your sign. During certain times of the year, full time means every waking minute.

I'm very blessed to be able to make my living doing what I do. Most of the time I LOVE what I do for a living, and the times that I don't? Well I remember that I could be sweeping floors or flipping burgers. (Not that there's anything wrong with that; I've done both and much prefer what I'm doing now, thank you very much)

While designing and producing vinyl letters for folks to decorate their homes with is very satisfying and mostly a ton o fun, it's just a portion of what happens here at Hathaway Signs and Designs.

Logo design, business cards, banners, brochures, vehicle lettering and graphics, commercial signage... all the stuff you need to promote yourself and your business happens here every day as well.

In the next few days I'll be posting some samples of the awesome stuff we've been doing and you'll see why everybody walks in to my shop and wishes they had MY job.

They don't realize it's such a lot of work being Queen of the Universe.

Dear Lord

Don't you sometimes wonder how people get themselves into the situations they get themselves into? Of course you do.
And don't you wonder how some people have managed to live as long as they have, doing the insane things they do? Uh huh.

And don't you often wonder how you're going to make it through the day without saying something that you really really REALLY shouldn't say to the people mentioned above?
Yep.

This one's for you.

Dreams, Love and Blessings

The weekend was sunny and bright and joyful and all the things I love about spring. It's a tad winterish again today, but I can deal with it because I know the sunny days will soon outnumber the gray days and then I'll be relishing the coolness of an overcast sky. That's right... long for something until you get it, then long for what you had. Ain't that the way?

Along with the springtime comes the inevitable need to clean and shine and do all that stuff commonly referred to as nesting.
I haven't quite gotten caught up in that frenzy yet, but I know it's coming. Yesterday I looked out the window into the back yard and I can now see all the socks, empty cottage cheese cartons, my missing slipper, and other weird stuff that the dog has toted outside and was covered by snow. (I keep her because she is entertaining.)

I even thought about pulling all the pans out of the bottom cupboards in the kitchen and giving the shelves a good swipe. Thank God I thought of something else before I started on that. It's still on the list though. Right below cleaning out the fridge.

Nesting... making your home all cozy and warm and a happy place to be. (That's my semi clever tie-in for the quote I'm about to upload.)

Just a brief funny...

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Pay it forward

"Just pay it forward. Three big favors for three other people. That's it."

That's a line from the movie "Pay it Forward" which I loved but can't watch again because I know how it ends.

I saw this on someone else's blog and loved the idea, so I'm gonna try it here:

The next three people who comment here will receive - instead of a big favor - something special from me. In turn, each of them must send something nice to three other people... and so on, and so on.

Don't be shy! Leave me a comment and email me your address (find my email address on my profile) and I'll send you something from my vast supply of somethings.

More fun with fonts

Another fun find for you today. Wordle.net is a word cloud generator that will produce a graphic for you like the ones above and below that I called f-words. Go there, type in a bunch of words and it will make 'em purty for ya. Just keep clicking the randomize button at the bottom, or change the font and arrangement until you have something that makes you happy.
Very fun little site!

I'm good at finding places to waste too much time

I usually spend a portion of my day just reading and finding cool stuff online. Sometimes my net wanderings take me to other interesting blogs. Sometimes I find stuff that's on sale for an amazing price and - thank God - it's sold out so I don't end up making an impulse purchase.
I've been doing much research lately about blog design as well as website design and what makes an effective website. In my family we kid a lot about the fact that we all share the "Geek Gene" since most of us make our living one way or another by way of a computer. Can't help it. I love learning new geeky stuff.

Today in my web travels I came across a cool little site that lets you build a magazine cover with a photo that you upload from your computer. While this is something that I could accomplish on my own computer with the use of Photoshop, I thought it would be fun to share the link with those of you do not have the inclination to spend hours learning how to use a paint program. The best part is, of course, it's absolutely free... and I'm ALL about free.Go HERE to upload your photo and plug in the info about your intended victim. I found it to be more aesthetically pleasing to break the sentences into two lines, and keep it short. You can press the create button at the bottom to see what your page looks like and then the edit button to go back and make changes. I managed to use up about 30 minutes of my day playing with this just so I could share with you.
Now you know how much I love you.
After you are done making changes, you can either upload to your flickr account-if you have one- or right click on the image and save it to your computer.
Then you can use it for blackmail purposes or to embarrass someone who's been a bit uppity lately. Enjoy!

I'll be making a list of links like this one and the make-your-own-font place over there >>>>> on the side of this blog so that I can share my geeky discoveries with y'all.

The view from my window

Lest I sound ungrateful with all my whining about winter and being cold...

It was a beautiful sunny but chilly day yesterday.
I stepped outside for a few minutes to get some fresh air and to grab a shot or two of the landscape from my back step.

What can I possibly have to complain about when I have this just outside my door?
This morning the sun is shining again just for me, I think. Well, there are a few other people who might also be enjoying some rays. Like the dude in the photo below.
Quincy Magoo refuses to go outside and risk getting his paws wet and cold. I had to sneak up on him while he was napping because he finds it tedious to pose for the camera.