Archive for November, 2009

The Little Shop Around the Corner….

Posted by Bernard | Filed under: B-Life, Shopping

Nov 29

Now that another thanksgiving (my favorite) holiday has come and gone (sob) we will all be turning towards Christmas and all that goes with that Holiday Season and it’s traditions.

I’m not going to try and list what it does or doesn’t mean to me here but whenever and wherever Christmas is celebrated, shopping is surely on the list of traditions for most of us.

And, it is with that thought that I wanted to share and awesome little shopping experience you just gotta be sure and try this Christmas Season…

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…It’s called "The Painted Cupboard". A quaint & cozy little hand-crafted, sign/gift/candle & furniture shop located, "just around the corner" in the heart of Oakland, Maryland. It’s open year round so Peggy and I try and stop there when we decide to go a lttle beyond Deep Creek and into this little village to window shop.

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Goodbye Wilbert Coffman

Posted by Bernard | Filed under: B-Life, Friends

Nov 8

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Sorry that this is the second post about losing a friend or family member in as many weeks but the heading of my blog does have the word "Life" in it.

And, both of these posts deal with losing people that played a significant role in my life.

In this case it is someone I have known nearly my entire Professional career as a sign painter.

Thursday night, Karen Coffman called to tell me…

…the sad news that her brother and my longtime friend and fellow sign painter, Wilbert G. Coffman had passed away.

From the time I first met Wilbert, somewhere around 1980-82 he was nothing but generous and kind to me both as a friend and as an aspiring sign painter of which I was at that time.

While it was my wife’s Uncle, who had initially encouraged me to consider the sign painting trade by introducing me to a lifelong sign painter from Uniontown, George Schlifitt, it was Wilbert that helped shaped my brush fundamentals and layouts for lettering signs and more that I still use today.

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