Articles tagged #SIGNS
Articles tagged
#SIGNS
Feeling Festive? Be prepared for every Holiday this season!
Happy holidays are rarely possible if you wing it, so you’ll need to be prepared early on for every holiday and finish off this season with something special for all your friends and family. The holiday rush is brimming with gift exchanges, but our customizable presents will allow you to add a personal touch for a lasting impression.
Get spooky for Halloween with Pumpkin, Gifts, and Costumes
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.
Keep Summer Camp Fun, Fresh and Safe for Kids
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.
PlaqueMaker is My Go-To Place Now!
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.
Friends and Family Are Forever!
A few years ago, one of Kristen Case‘s good friends was diagnosed with breast cancer. She survived a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. “She thought she had it beat, but this past year the cancer came back,” Kristen tells us. “She fought really hard, but in July, Barb passed away.” Barb’s husband, her sons and many of her friends were by her side through the good and the bad. “It was one of the hardest things I have ever had to go through with someone.”
Lost? There’s a Sign for That!
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.
LED Light-Up Signs
… 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.
Create a Reusable Label System for Your Garden
you’re likely sitting by the fire this winter planning your spring plantings. With the Vernal Equinox more than a month away (the first day of spring is March 20 this year), there’s plenty of time indoors to pore over seed catalogs and log on to interactive garden design tools, dreaming up ways to attract more song birds, grow heirloom vegetables, add fresh herbs to borders or feature that Japanese Maple that’s attained specimen status.
For the Person Who Has Everything: Lighted Signs
We are a military family and it is hard to find cool gifts that show someone how proud we are of them,” says Kori Cioca, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard. “There aren’t many military gifts we don’t have or haven’t seen.”
Wayfinding Your Way Around
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.
Add Curb Appeal to Your Home
Nothing helps make you fall in love with your home faster than a little sprucing. Just-planted containers full of flowers, a fresh coat of paint, even new house numbers can keep that visual interest exciting. Just think what personalized signs can do! Here are a few ideas to get you started.
Huge Custom Signs
Looking for extra-large signs? PlaqueMaker can help you with that.
Personalized LED Signs Light it Up!
“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!!”
Keeping the Faith
In a world of stress, sometimes it just feels comforting to be reminded of the serenity, courage and wisdom we use to get through the dark times. Share these values in your home with our beautiful bamboo Serenity Prayer sign. It’s easy to personalize, too. Just type your family name into our online design form and you’re done. Makes a fabulous gift for the New Year, or any time.
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Experienced horticulturists urge home gardeners to first plan a design for their planting areas on a computer. They also recommend the use of signs to identify individual plants and groupings, especially when it comes to vegetables.
Identify Plants With Eco-Friendly Garden Sign Markers
“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.”