You have got to read this article if you love to embellish things. So many techniques of embellishment and decoration are well suited to enhancing your mailbox. Your good taste and decorating sense will be right out there in front of your house.
By embellishing your mail receptacle, you are giving a visual representation of your inner personality and your emotions in a very unique and very visible way.
Of course, you can embellish your mailbox with the materials of the season, but that is really only the beginning. A smiley face on your box will advertise your unfailing good nature. Celebrate your Mediterranean heritage with a portrait of Zeus or Aphrodite.
The need to actually have your name on your box so that the mail delivery person doesn't give your checks to your neighbor and his bills to you is pretty boring, but there's nothing that says it has to look boring. Enhance your last name with a fanciful (but always legible) font in wild and subversive colors -- pink and green, orange and purple, electric blue and gold; the choice is yours! Your mailbox will always get noticed, and you can decide for yourself if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
People can often love making decorative mailboxes to the point where there are groups and magazines out there for just decorating mailboxes. The "Decorating Grannies" are a Kansas City group of mailbox decorators that has existed for the past three years.
Yes, this is precisely what it sounds like. It is a group of elderly women who reside in a retirement home. They made the decision to hang flyers up in public and place an ad in the local newspaper, so as to make people aware of their inexpensive service. This awesome group of women offered to totally redecorate people's mailboxes for a very reasonable price. All of the money they raised from this project was given directly to the retirement home so that the elderly residents there would be able to have more of their favorite activities sponsored for them.
You could do worse than to imitate these fun ladies if you have a fondness for embellished mailboxes and if you are feeling inspired by this article. If you were to donate your decorating proceeds back to the community, say to finance some new plantings in the neighborhood or purchase playground equipment, your love of creating fun objects could turn you into a grassroots hero. You and your decorating friends will feel justly proud of yourself, and you will have the gratitude of your entire neighborhood. - 30228
By embellishing your mail receptacle, you are giving a visual representation of your inner personality and your emotions in a very unique and very visible way.
Of course, you can embellish your mailbox with the materials of the season, but that is really only the beginning. A smiley face on your box will advertise your unfailing good nature. Celebrate your Mediterranean heritage with a portrait of Zeus or Aphrodite.
The need to actually have your name on your box so that the mail delivery person doesn't give your checks to your neighbor and his bills to you is pretty boring, but there's nothing that says it has to look boring. Enhance your last name with a fanciful (but always legible) font in wild and subversive colors -- pink and green, orange and purple, electric blue and gold; the choice is yours! Your mailbox will always get noticed, and you can decide for yourself if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
People can often love making decorative mailboxes to the point where there are groups and magazines out there for just decorating mailboxes. The "Decorating Grannies" are a Kansas City group of mailbox decorators that has existed for the past three years.
Yes, this is precisely what it sounds like. It is a group of elderly women who reside in a retirement home. They made the decision to hang flyers up in public and place an ad in the local newspaper, so as to make people aware of their inexpensive service. This awesome group of women offered to totally redecorate people's mailboxes for a very reasonable price. All of the money they raised from this project was given directly to the retirement home so that the elderly residents there would be able to have more of their favorite activities sponsored for them.
You could do worse than to imitate these fun ladies if you have a fondness for embellished mailboxes and if you are feeling inspired by this article. If you were to donate your decorating proceeds back to the community, say to finance some new plantings in the neighborhood or purchase playground equipment, your love of creating fun objects could turn you into a grassroots hero. You and your decorating friends will feel justly proud of yourself, and you will have the gratitude of your entire neighborhood. - 30228
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