Post #285411 by pariartspaul on Tue, Feb 13, 2007 2:47 PM

Freddiefreelance, you have quite the imagination! The photo above is something we did some years ago... a cartoon version of LAX, complete with little people and cars, all hand cut out and painted. It's almost three feet wide. I'm going to do a laser version of this soon. The handmade version was just too crazy to try to reproduce over and over. The picture is too teeny to see, but it's loaded with hand painted details.

Another idea I have is mobiles. Mobiles in plastic with flowers and tikis. I did a small one already, but it's not quite right yet. The plastic is expensive to play around with, but one of these days I'll get it done.

I have one of those backlit Lounge signs Target was selling a few years back. I'd love to do the lit motel signs, but I don't want to get into playing with lights and electrical things here... ha! and this coming from a guy with a 45watt laser in the shop.....

Anyway, I already do fake bamboo on some our signs. I use redwood and route the sides with a quarter round. When they're painted, you can't tell it from real bamboo. And dimensional mugs??! I make Tiki Farms 'Mugoomba' sign and it features a group of hand turned bamboo tiki mugs that spell out 'Welcome to'. That was a fun one.

But here's a really cool idea. The picture below is our TV room. I made the 'flower power' wall hangings out of fiberboard about three years ago. We're going to offer these on our site for sure - laser cut of mdf and hand painted. Looks like something out of Austin Power's pad huh? Yeah baby!

PS... yes, I love our TV room. You won't believe where we got those plush flower power pillows.... at the 99 cent store! You have to keep your eyes open, you never know what will show up there. On the other side of the room are some flourescent bean bag chairs, 2 giant Ikea paper lanterns and a black 80" TV. Yes 80". And I hate TV for the most part.

[ Edited by: pariartspaul 2007-02-13 15:07 ]