Hey everyone, I'm really new here and this will be my first post :)
My husband and I are almost done with our first deployment. We got married, came to our new duty command station and then a month later he was shipped off. He will be home in about 2 weeks and I am having some problems trying to figure out what to do for a welcome home sign! I want to be able to put one up in front of the Garage door so everyone will see that my beloved sailor is home. Anyone have any tips?!?! Any would be so greatly appreciate! Thank you!!

Go to the local newspaper and buy a roll or a half rool of paper! If the weather's going to be bad though, you can always go to a party store and have a banner made and they are reasonably cheap. I also have baloons in the house and everything too:P If I can find a place, I'll also get a T shirt made and wear it to pick him up-he always likes it and it's fun for me. It's also easier then a sign or baloons if you have to pick him up in the airport-I always end up helping carry his bags:P

I am trying to think of ideas too. :) Goodluck honey


oo and :welcome to SOS

For last homecoming I got a white sheet and hanged it on a wall (since we were living in an apartment) I got balloms and some decoration to go around it in the wall. I wrote Welcome home, the squadrom he's in and his rate and name and a we missed you. I used acrylic paints and some stencils. It was fun.

When DH came home last time I made a sign on posterboard to hold at the pier that said "Welcome Home Daddy, We MISSED YOU!" DD and I also had welcome home T shirts.. Then at home I had a big posterboard on the door with "welcome back" and up on the stair railing I had one that said "our hero is home" ... Yellow ribbons and streamers everywhere!!

along the lines of newspaper, you can go to any grocery store & get freezer paper. it's used for wrapping meat to put in the freezer, & should be white paper on one side & kinda waxy on the other. when i was a kid we often used it to make bookcovers for school books. it's about 2 feet wid and as long as you want. it'll be a little more sturdy in case of rain because of the wax on the backside.

here is a web site i have use www.bannerbystats.com

Big white sheet on the garage door.

Posterboard signs on the front door(s).

Oriental Trading has blank banners you can use.

Use the auto-markers that you can write on your car with and write on your front windows.

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what did you all put on the T-shirts you had made?