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A door can be decorated for Halloween and still say hello. WELCOME runs in bold letters across this board, with a black cat, a ghost that is smiling rather than wailing, a grinning pumpkin and spider webs filling the corners. The layered construction gives the shapes a little relief, so the artwork is not flat against the wood.
Webs do the atmospheric work while the rest of the artwork stays friendly. Printed into the corners of the board they frame the cat, the ghost and the pumpkin without anything on the sign looking frightening, which is the balance a house that gets toddlers at the door wants. Real cobweb stretched around the frame picks the theme up.
The word is set large enough to be the first thing read, which keeps the sign useful outside the last week of October. Neighbors dropping by in early autumn see a greeting; children on the thirty-first see the cat and the pumpkin. One board covering both is why it can go up in September and stay until the leaves are cleared.
The layered build is the difference between this and a flat printed plaque. Raised shapes throw a small shadow, so in afternoon light or under a porch bulb the cat and the ghost stand away from the background. Detailed printing on sturdy wood holds that effect for season after season instead of lifting at a corner. Nothing about it needs a nail through the artwork.
Signs like this travel well as a gift, since there is nothing to assemble and nothing that spoils. It suits a neighbor who decorates the whole porch, a housewarming in early autumn, or a teacher whose classroom door needs something. The rope hanger means the person opening the parcel can have it up before the paper is in the trash.
Turkeys, pumpkins and fall leaves on plastic wide enough for the dining table, with a second cover for wherever the children eat.
Printed covers at 52 by 87 inches, two in the pack, that fit a standard eight-foot table and later tape to the wall as a photo backdrop.
