I’ve always wanted to write in wet cement, which is why it was on my official Bucket List. They’ve been doing a lot of construction near Joe’s house lately, and it seemed like we always just missed the stage where it was wet! One day, Joe left the house to run an errand and I immediately got a call from him on my phone. I thought he had forgotten his keys, but he was letting me know they just finished laying down some cement around the block, but to be careful because the construction workers were still around.
I grabbed my keys and camera and ran to find it. I used the blunt side of a pen to draw in the cement. It was more difficult than I thought it would be! Very gritty.
One day in college, I wasn’t paying attention in class and wrote a letter to my friend, Janice. It was about how I had always admired bathroom graffiti. I never thought any type of graffiti was inherently “bad”, like they taught us in school, but I had never written on the wall of any bathroom for myself. I always wanted the thing I wrote on a bathroom wall to be really important because of its permanence. (Even as an adult who does street art, I always gravitate more towards temporary installations.)
Wet cement is probably even more permanent than a bathroom stall, but I finally found a phrase and concept I can get behind leaving my mark with: “You Are Beautiful”, because you are and so am I.
I also turned these into stickers you can buy!
Have you ever written in wet cement? What would you write if you could?
We break ground next month to build our first home. We plan to write something in the wet cement in the foundation and somewhere more visible. I was thinking something simple – our initials or our anniversary perhaps. But I like the idea of a short little something like this!
That’s so cool!!!! I love it.
I’m so happy you marked something else off your bucket list! That is so much fun. I haven’t written in wet cement either and I should one day!
Thanks Ashley! Yeah you should, it was pretty exciting!
So cool, I love what you wrote. Someday I’m going to have to do something like this in the future, likely on my own property though so I can always see it 🙂
That would be amazing.
At the place I’m at now, someone did that, wrote their kids’ names in the cement but it’s so worn away. It could have been done close to the time the house was built back in the early 1900’s or only fifty years ago but that proves that if nobody destroys the cement, it ends up lasting for ages.
So neat!
This gave me the biggest dose of warm fuzzies! What a fantastic message – and photo. I’ve added your sticker to my Etsy favorites so that I can come back and buy some when I’ve got a few dollars to spare!
Thank you for sharing this awesomeness.
Great, thanks Brittany! You’re so welcome. 🙂 Happy Thursday!
so fun and love the positive message you decided to share!!
Thanks Jackie!
Your question inspired me to write a blog post about my answer. I would write: “Carve your dreams on the moon.” Explanation at http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/5981_0_3_0_C/