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Prepare your business for a creative Valentine’s Day update with custom signs and other essentials at PlaqueMaker! Celebrating major holidays is an opportunity to engage with the community and advertise special events or deals. Browse our custom bamboo signs, metal tags, and more to create fun and effective marketing plans for Valentine’s!

It’s important to grow your brand in any business, so shop custom signs and other essentials at PlaqueMaker! Whether you’re establishing a new business, or rebranding a longtime organization, we have products for all your strategies. Create custom plaques, name plates, QR code tags and more with original text and artwork! Unique PlaqueMaker designs can help build your synergy, team spirit, and social presence for the business you always envisioned.

National Girlfriend Day is another fun opportunity to surprise best friends and romantic partners alike with custom gifts! The day arrives on August 1st, encouraging everyone to celebrate the women in their lives. Although PlaqueMaker does offer plenty of office essentials like awards plaques, we also carry personal gifts to celebrate any girlfriend. If you need gift ideas, check out our decor, drinkware, and more!

Another season for summer adventures is here, the perfect opportunity to redecorate with fresh decor and design custom gifts! There’s often ample time for new activities, from summer sports and weddings to stylish new gardens. Browse our selection of unique decor for your home or office, and personal gifts to celebrate vacations and more!

Mom and Pop Business Owners Day arrives soon, so it’s an advantageous time to update and modernize your business. New, supportive locals may turn out for the unofficial holiday, which arrives on March 29th. We offer custom products to help you add prestige to your office and staff, and décor that supports modern technology.

Spring cleaning is a longstanding tradition, and a ripe opportunity to prepare your garden for the spring 2024 season. The warm, friendly weather is convenient for organizing the backyard and planting new gardens. The spring equinox lands on March 19th this year. So, it’s an appropriate time to redecorate, tidy up the tool shed, and clean up the garden for fresh arrivals.

The first Sunday of August is National Sisters Day, so it’s time to shop gifts that celebrate sisterhood. This unofficial holiday is ideal for every sisterly relationship. Any small gesture, including a personalized gift, can be a meaningful opportunity to reconnect. We offer plenty of customizable products for their favorite hobbies, morning routines and more.

National Gardening Day, celebrated on April 14th, is a great opportunity to plant and harvest everything from flowers to peppers. Gardening is a peaceful hobby that promotes patience, growth, a strong work ethic and endless possibilities.

The scariest time of year is here, so dig up your gifts and costumes, and make the most of pumpkin season for Halloween. It’s a holiday that encourages families and kids to get creative, mischievous, and loaded up on candy. But there’s something for everyone, between ripe pumpkins, hayrides, and costume contests. We’ll help you find fresh ways to celebrate, from themed gifts to activity supplies.

The warmest season of the year is finally here, so it’s time to find some creative ways to make summer camp fun and safe for kids of all ages. There are plenty of activities to entertain and educate kids during any camp adventure. However, they also need careful guidance and supervision. As such, it’s also important to plan ahead for basic safety measures.

After a five-year process, VFW Post 5181M in Dove Creek, Colorado finally receives delivery of an Army issue, self-propelled artillery machine for display. After members decide an informative plaque is in order, Bob De Groff creates the design online.

The unofficial start to the summer season is here and that could only mean two things: cheering on your favorite little league team and trips to the cabin at the lake for fishing.

The Frost School in Rockville, Maryland is a nonpublic special education school serving children and adolescents who live in the Washington, DC metro area with emotional, behavioral and autism spectrum disorders. Founded in 1976 by the non-profit Family Foundation, The Frost School offers a variety of programs designed to integrate specialized academic instruction, counseling, transition services and behavioral modification strategies that are customized for the students themselves.

… and her uncanny ability to give just the perfect present, drawing oohs and ahhs from her family. At the time, Kori exclaimed what an easy gift idea PlaqueMaker’s LED Light-Up Signs really are, “affordable and personal, can’t get any better than that!” and how appreciated each glowing gift is by the recipient.

If you have, then you are already acquainted with the spatial problem-solving method of wayfinding. Coined by American architect and urban planner Kevin Lynch in the 1960’s, wayfinding is a traditional design principle of navigation that helps visitors make their way around an unfamiliar place, getting to a desired destination with ease. Lynch calls it the “imageability” of a space, the way people visualize it using clues that help them get from point “A” to point “B,” such as landmarks, paths, edges, intersections and the signs that help to identify them.

Besides tasty recipes that feed a hungry, appreciative crowd, what are some of the essential tools of a great home cook? Here’s a partial list:

“I ordered a custom LED sign for my fiancée’s graduation and it was delivered to a wrong house. PlaqueMaker was amazing and made me a new one in under 2 hours and had it shipped the same day so it would be here for his graduation! The sign was exactly what I expected and we cannot wait to hang it in the man cave!! Highly recommend to others!!”

“National Garden Month is an opportunity to learn more about USDA’s People’s Garden Initiative begun in 2009,” U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said recently. “Today, 2,116 People’s Gardens thrive on public and private lands across the United States and its territories and in 12 foreign countries. These People’s Gardens serve as models for uniting individuals, groups and neighborhoods in a common effort to benefit communities, promote food security, utilize sustainable practices, help mitigate pollinator habitat loss, and address environmental issues.”