A Sign for The Roost

Here is a great shot of our new logo for The Roost.  We have used it for the first time officially in our banner.  This picture shows it gracing our table at the Spring Wedding Expo in Cornerbrook NL on March 15, 2014.  We are really happy with our logo that we had designed at Speedpro Signs in Cornerbrook.  Getting the logo printed on a banner was an easy process.  Of course a banner like this one is hardly big enough to replace the convenience store sign on our building and the cost of a new lighted sign doesn't fit into our rather tight start-up budget for the opening of our gift shop.  The solution was inspired by my friend Amy Blair, whom I watched make a large outdoor sign for a business in Smiths Falls ON.  With this in mind, Blake and I undertook the task of making our own sign and so far so good!

 

Our first step was to purchase an eight foot long piece of plywood, good on one side and have our carpenter friend Jerome cut it into two eight foot pieces.  We purchased marine paint in the basic colours of yellow, white, red and black and found a can of Mediterranean blue at our cottage!  This gave us lots of options for mixing colours.  Next we printed off the letters and rooster picture from the logo in colour and had copies made as large as possible  at our local Staples copy centre.  The plan was to trace the letters directly on to the board, however, even the large copy size was not big enough and I ended up enlarging all of the letters and "free handing" the rooster and anchor!

Blake gave both halves of the sign a few coats of white marine paint and then we cut our the letters and traced around them with pencil and marking pen.  Here we are painting the letters on in red. The rooster and anchor required other colours that we were able to mix with our selection of marine paint.

Here is the rooster and anchor nearly finished.

Maybe next week we will be able to show off the whole sign on our building in York Harbour.  If you live in the York Harbour area you will soon see it appear where the Child's Convenience Store sign is now, on our roof. 

Or stayed tuned here to see the results of our first sign project!  Yes I did say first because we have two more to go!

Waiting to Roost

Yes it has been a long time since I have posted an update on our move to Newfoundland and I am sure that our followers are wondering what has become of us.  Well we are in waiting mode as you can see, that is waiting for our house to sell in Ontario, waiting for Roy to come to Newfoundland and waiting to get on with our plans to open our cafe/gallery at The Roost this spring.

Our move to York Harbour Newfoundland in September of 2013 went very well considering the distance involved.  My mother's home in Lark Harbour was ready for her to move in on September 20th and she is well settled in now.  The Roost is another story, however, as we have not been able to proceed with our renovations as planned.  It still looks pretty much as it did when we bought it, perhaps with a bit more snow!

Our business partner Blake and I have not been idle over the past few months though.  I have  continued to work on jewellery and promote our online store JaJeJems.  In November we drove to Moncton to join Jessica at the Christmas in the Coliseum show.  December saw us taking part in two Christmas shows at the Wonderful Fine Market in Cornerbrook NL, a showcase for locally made arts and crafts and locally grown food.  Here we are at our table at one of the shows.

In addition to our jewellery, we were also able to offer art cards of some of my paintings and were really pleased at the second show to have Blake's sea glass sculptures on display.  He was especially excited about selling several of them!  Blake became intrigued with working with sea glass after our first show at the market and we haven't been able to slow him down since!

While Blake has been working at his sculptures and sea glass floral arrangements,  I have been making glass beads, jewellery and doing some painting in preparation for some upcoming craft shows and our tentative store opening in May.  The plan is to open the gift shop first, with the cafe to follow, hopefully before the end of 2014.  Looks like a busy time ahead!



Sea glass bouquet with brown rose



Bracelet with handmade glass bead