TickleTastic

[David Rowland]

look at that… looks good.

[Marekdlux]

More pics!!!!
Thanks for posting those Andrew. Looks like fun!
-Marek

[Andrew Boyle]

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Marek,

Never took that many pics…………

No vinyl in sight………..
Not very easy that handpainting……….
Jill was doing some lovely quick and quirky work.

Cheers

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[Marcella Ross]

Hi Andrew … hope your Trossachs were tickled! 😉 Shame your missing the ceilidh tho 🙁 looks like you’ve had a blast up there too.

As for SignUK… sensible… you’re right, we should let our hair down next time :lol1:

…. hope you kept to your 2-3 units per day. 😮

Marcella

edit to say …. the ‘boattrip’ picture is wonderful!

[Marekdlux]

Thanks for the pics.
Is that Mike Meyer in the second pic? I’ve seen his work, really good stuff.
-Marek

[Andy Gorman]

Great pics. Jill’s certainly been doing some travelling this week!

[Nicola McIntosh]

great pictures andrew…..rob looks very into it eh!! :lol1: :lol1:

nik

[Martin Cole]

Andrew great pics sir! Really nice to have met you at the show 🙂

Mr Andy Gorman above me it’s a shame you missed the show a lot of people were looking forward to meeting you inc myself.

Think they wanted to stand at the bar and listen to some of your German jokes. Heard the saying ”punch em in the face” mentioned on more than one occasion :lol1:

Hopefully next year.

[Andrew Boyle]

Had to give up on my blobby mess [helped by Dave Smith]…….it made my head hurt….and my hand suffers from some uncontrolled spasm syndrome….

I know Mike Meyers was there I think that’s him 😕 [oops]

It took me half an hour to find Rob behind that 3′ board [oops02]

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[Marekdlux]

That looks good Andrew. Do you plan on finishing it?
-Marek

[Andrew Boyle]

I was so disgruntled I left it…………

🙄

[Marekdlux]

One shot paints? What was it painted on?
I really need to get some brushes and give it a go. I’ve done a few paintings, but no lettering.
-Marek

[David Rowland]

Andrew.. looks good. is this ur first attempt?

[Andrew Boyle]

quote Marekdlux:

One shot paints? What was it painted on?
I really need to get some brushes and give it a go. I’ve done a few paintings, but no lettering.
-Marek

They leave painted aluminium offcuts lying about and you just pick one up….. put some OneShot in one of the wee paper cups and give it a try.
Enjoyed the day…
First time painting letters…….

Cheers

[John Singh]

Looks like you were having a great time working with the masters

Did they get you to clean up properly after you finished

[Shane Drew]

Thanks for the pics mate. Would have been great just being amongst them. I am sure the banter would have been entertaining.

What is a ceilidh. Is that your version of a BBQ? or a Pie & Peas 😕

Looks like a lot of fun..

[Marcella Ross]

quote Shane Drew:

What is a ceilidh. Is that your version of a BBQ? or a Pie & Peas 😕

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:lol1: … just imagine lots of whisky and everyone in kilts throwing each other around the floor doing some scottish country dancing to music of fiddles and accordians! Ceilidhs are great fun, leave you exhausted!

[Shane Drew]

quote Marcella:

quote Shane Drew:

What is a ceilidh. Is that your version of a BBQ? or a Pie & Peas 😕

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:lol1: … just imagine lots of whisky and everyone in kilts throwing each other around the floor doing some scottish country dancing to music of fiddles and accordians! Ceilidhs are great fun, leave you exhausted!

replace the whisky for a xxxx, the kilts for jeans, and it sounds just like a good ol aussie square dance then. 😛

[signworxs]

just got back after a 5 hour drive home, nice to meet you andrew, you cirtainly missed a good night last night. Marek that is the man himself, Mike that is.

[Jill Marie Welsh]

It was great.
Especially getting to hang out with my UK homies!
love….jill

[Marcella Ross]

Hi jill!

It was great to meet you … you look exactly the same in the flesh and every bit as cheery!
Hope you had a great time in the trossachs and I hope my fellow countrymen looked after you! 😀

[Hugh Potter]

i think that given the choice (and the spare time) that this would have been more my cup of tea than signuk show, looks like ya’ll had a great time, i’d love to do work like this, i’d quite happily take on an apprenticeship with paint, and earn via vinyl in the mean time, maybe in another lifetime !

this past week’s quite ironic really, i’ve always got too much time on my hands, then when i need a little, i dont know which job to be doing next, still mad this week, and long may it cotinue ! !!

Nice new piccy marcella !

[Peter Normington]

Just got back, thought you might like to see these we had a brilliant time,

Will post more after we have caught up with work.

I didnt notice till just now, but Henry and his lady are the couple in the background

Peter

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[David Rowland]

Hey… wow… you all look great

[Marcella Ross]

FANTASTIC Peter!!!! you two look great!!! 😀

…tell me…. did you go the whole hog and be a scotsman under your kilt? 😉

[Nicola McIntosh]

wow…nice one you two………great to see you were good sports with the traditional scottish dress………you both look fantastic!!! 😉

nik

[Marcella Ross]

Peter…. you do look comfortable in a skirt! 😉 …seriously tho … you carry it well!

ooohhh…. love a man in a kilt! 😀

[John Singh]

You all look great
Fantastic outfits

I can see Henry in the background

Glad you all had fun

[Debbie Astle]

You really look the part guys, very smart. Glad you had a good time up there. 😀

[Simon Kay]

Hoots man dontcha all look grand. You 🙂 make me feel homesick.

[Shane Drew]

Strewth! 😮 I couldn’t do that… If the boys back home had evidence I was seen in a dress, they’d never let me forget it 😳

[Robert Lambie]

well i got home yesterday around 11am… crashed out… what a f*%^*n week!!!! :lol1: :lol1:
Met loads of brilliant people at the show and in the stirling letterheads meet. i dont know the exact figure of people attending the letterheads meet but there was over 100 rooms booked out in the main hotel to letterhead people and about another 20 rooms at the hotel i was staying in round the corner. obviously not one to a room so the total head count must have been pretty high!

ill post again later, have loads of pictures and video footage. and i mean loads :lol1: just need to sift through the lot to see what i will be "allowed" to show :lol1: :lol1:

andrew, i am in "heebie jeebie" mode right now :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

catch you lot later…. but thank you for a briliant time. the company was the best!

[Carrie Brown]

Great pics and great work.

Peter you look fab!!!!

😀

[Peter Normington]

quote Marcella:

FANTASTIC Peter!!!! you two look great!!! 😀

…tell me…. did you go the whole hog and be a scotsman under your kilt? 😉

Now that would be telling. 😉
but put it this way it was awfy drafty 😀
And me botty kept stickin to the chairs, dont know how you lassies remember to tuck your frocks under every time?

Peter

[Marcella Ross]

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

well done Peter!!! Och aye…. nothing better than getting air aboot yer bits! 😉

[John & Dawn Roddick]

quote Marcella:

And me botty kept stickin to the chairs, dont know how you lassies remember to tuck your frocks under every time?

Peter

Usually I wear drawers so don’t have that problem!

Dawn

[Henry Barker]

Just add a link to some of my pics and a post I made at Steves site, we had a great time! It always goes so quickly!

Met Rob there, seemed to just get a picture of him from behind, it was a fantastic week for us we really enjoyed ourselves with everybody we met both old and new faces, I met Peter, and Andrew from here I think.

I don’t know where to start really, I guess the first thing is to thank Stewart,Avril, and everybody in Stirlingshire that made us all so welcome and made it such a great meet.

I decided to take Åsa with me and spend a few extra days showing her places we visited as kids when we visited relatives up in that area, the views and scenery are beautiful and we arrived with sunshine which made it all the more enjoyable, I met Stewart on the monday who was putting together the final touches and you could see that it had been a mammoth task, and at times an uphill struggle with the local council.

People started arriving tuesday onwards and it was great to strat bumping into old friends and meeting people off here for the first time. Funny that the written word often fails to show a fraction of the person behind those words….no surprise that there is friction and misunderstanding at times.

The meet got underway and as always there, is so much going on and so many people you want to talk to, and ask questions, and it all seems to go so fast. John Jordan, Dave Smith, and John Studdan wére doing some glass gilding so we started there, was blown away by pictures of their work, such a great priviledge to be around them and get so much help.

Noel Weber and Cam Bortz where gilding Screw-Its letters, Mike Meyer was busy blending, Dave Kynaston was showing scripts and graining techniques, Alan Brindle was showing his skills with transparent paintover aluminium leaf, for fairground art, Tramp Warner and others, Art Shilling, Mark and others were pinstriping, Paul was doing his Heraldry, Doug was carving, there was sandblasting going on, loads of new faces to me from both sides of the pond, tattooing, plus loads more, Stewarts mum keeping us all fed, with her gang, great location great centre, nice little town, unusual hotel

I for one didn’t want to leave, we got back here late last night, and straight into a load of work today.

Made some new great friends and rekindled some old friendships, it was great to see Marcus and Manfred again, meet Jill, Jeff Lang, Tim,Ash, Leeson, and the river/barge painting, and more.

Meeting Duncan from Montana was great too, as was Jack Keith and his wife, Judy, and Jonathan Gough, and more that I can’t put names too just now James Kelly, Wayne Osborne.

Really good to meet up with Scott, and Damian again after Greece, I never got a picture of your trossachs panel Damian , I meant to ask if I could take it outside, but never got around to it.

I’m sure I’ve forgotten other names….but not faces

I have some pics here, alot of shots from inside the hall are yellow and some are blurred, as the lighting was abit like that, haven’t edited so much so there are pics of surrounding area, and us on a greát but killer walk on the last day, which I ended up doing twice, as Åsa lost an earring she got from Sonny, which we found pretty close to the top, talking of Sonny it was great to seehim and Peggy again, and he left his mark on the local bookshop, which they talked about in a very warm way both on the sunday and monday after the meet.

Thanks to everybody, and thanks Dave for a great t shirt design, we had a time I wont forget for along time, it was so nice for us to get away as a couple too no kids just time for each other something that gets overlooked at times with 4 kids and a company to run.

Hope we all meet up again soon!

http://www.signcraft.se/scotland/scotland.htm

[Marcella Ross]

quote Henry:

Funny that the written word often fails to show a fraction of the person behind those words….no surprise that there is friction and misunderstanding at times.

… very eloquently put and very true!

[Marcella Ross]

I’ve just had a look at the great photos there.
Did I recognise the mad Irishman from Caledonian Sun Tattoos in Stirling among those?
I did the windows in his shop and I thought I recognised the face! If so I’m not surprised he’s there…. great artist, his freehand work is superb!

[Nicola McIntosh]

love the photos henry….that looked one fab meet 😀

nik

[Robert Lambie]

thanks a million for the post henry, was great to meet you again mate.
i had a great time too… i have pictures as well as video footage to load.
once i have it chopped up and sorted ill post it. should be a couple of days though, upto my eyes in catching up here. 😕

marcella that probably was the guy yeh… he was excellent! he was at the meet tattooing people while others painted and done their bit, music playing loud in background, tons of folk gabbing… continuing drinking into the small hours each day!

[Lynn Normington]

yes you did Marcella he was doing tattoo’s there his work is amazing, don’t know how he applies his tattoos but saw some just a couple of hour’s after and no redness or sore looking and his designs are brilliant.

Lynn

[John Singh]

You must have spent all your time taking photo’s Henry
Gives a real idea of the fun you guys were having 😀

Who’s looking after the dogs back home Henry?

[Marcella Ross]

quote Robert Lambie:

music playing loud in background, tons of folk gabbing… continuing drinking into the small hours each day!

…. sounds hell …. you wouldn’t have enjoyed yourself then Robert? 😉

I’m sure his name is Dave from memory …. he always has a HUGE waiting list… always in demand, a talented guy.

[Carrie Brown]

Great pics Henry, thanks for sharing them. Some great work there!!

😀

[Judy]

The meet was great and I enjoyed meeting old friends and making new ones. Perhaps Robert has a more recent picture to put up for me. I got home late last night..weary but still glowing from a great meet! I’ll post pictures later.
Judy Pate

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Here are a few of mine…..

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[signworxs]

Fantastic pic’s Henry thanks for sharing. I think everyone enjoyed themselves despite Fawlty Towers and the huge hearty breakfast! Did the job though even if we did only use the beds for four hours each night, I think the barman was still serving drinks at 4:30am on sunday morning.

I echo your thankyous to stuart and his family for once again puting on a right good meet and looking after everyone.

[John Simpson]

don’t you 3 look smart, thought you were off to a wedding.

Henry, thanks for showing us the photo’s.

L J

[Lynn Normington]

now Jill is back in the land of the living just want to say a huge thanks for the sign she painted for us, it is displayed very proudly in a place of prominance, also thanks to all who made this a brilliant time for us, Stuart for hosting it of course, and all the people who gave advice and help, Paul (signworks) James Kelly, the wonderfull Jill, we had the best time.

Lynn & Peter

[Shane Drew]

thanks for the photos people. I wish I was there

[Lynn Normington]

Shane it’s a good job your not there every one left on Sunday 🙄

Lynn

[David Rowland]

That was good answer Lynn… :lol1:

nice pics Jill