Over-sized Produce Sign...

Hi Everyone!  I had a request from a client to create my Fresh Produce sign that is normally 5 1/2" x 24" on a much larger scale....

It is 7 1/4" x 60".   I'm really liking it on the large scale.  I just might have to add one this size to my Etsy Shop!  And maybe make some of my other signs on the larger size (maybe not quite this large).

Here's what it normally looks like, only not in red (this was a custom order).  It's usually more like this....

I'll have to see what the other signs look like on a larger scale.  Do you have any signs in your house that are over-sized?  Thanks for stopping by!

Enjoy the little things....

Hi Everyone!  Just a quick look at one of the little signs I made for my Fall Open House.....

..... It's simple but one of my very favorite sayings.....

 ....Words to live by....

Thanks for stopping by.

Custom hand painted signs.....

Hi Everyone!  While I've been busy working on the remodel of my kitchen, bath and laundry room, I've also been busy with orders.  Almost a dozen signs along with some other larger orders.  A few are signs I've made repeatedly and several are new, custom orders.

I was asked to make this sign based on the sign I usually make that says Faith, Family, Farming.

The same gal that bought the Faith, Family, Friends sign also requested this Get After It sign.  Both of these signs are painted on 24" long boards.


The next two signs were ordered by my boss's niece.  And I really like the way they turned out.

The family rules sign is painted on a wooden canvas that I built and is 12" x 36".  I painted the base dark brown then a top coat of tan.  Then lightly sanded it to reveal the brown.  Then the fun began.  I hand painted the words on.  I began with the Aust Family Rules and then the Love and worked my way up the sign so that I could get the spacing right.  That way if I ended up with a bunch of space it wouldn't look odd separating the Family Rules from the list of rules.  Then I lightly sanded the words.  Which is always difficult for me to do after hand painting all of those letters.  But it turned out looking pretty good.

And the second sign she ordered was this one.  She saw it in the Pottery Barn Kids catalog and asked me to recreate it.  I built the wooden canvas, it's 22" x 24" (it's not really pallet wood, just made to look like it), then mixed a custom blue/gray paint (it looks more blue in this picture) and hand painted the letters in white.  I think it turned out pretty well.  And best of all, my client was happy with them.

I have a couple of other signs to finish up that were ordered this past week, a couple of pieces of furniture to paint for one of favorite clients, a headboard bench to build for another client and lots of work to do on the house.  I'm making progress on the house.  I spent this week working on a plaster wall in the kitchen and finished that on Sunday morning.  Then started working on the built-in upper kitchen cabinets that my grandpa built and I'm keeping.  I'll share all the details soon.  Thanks for stopping by.

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A couple of custom signs...

Hi Everyone!  I hope your weekend was great.  Mine was very productive.  I've only got a few more things to finish up for the fair this weekend.  And then of course I need to take pictures of everything I've been working on.  Since I didn't get that accomplished this weekend I don't have anything new to share with you except for a couple of custom order hand painted signs.

Normally my produce sign says Fresh Produce but this time I received an order for N. H. (New Hampshire) Produce.  I think it turned out well but most importantly, so did my client.

I also received an order for a brown and cream Faith, Family, Farming sign.  Normally I make this with a white and black aged background and black writing.  This is a custom mixed stain that I've used before on my painted dresser with the vines.  I really like how it almost looks like paint.

Hopefully by tomorrow I will have some new things to share with you.  Thanks for stopping by.

A sign...

Hi Everyone!   Thank goodness it's the weekend!  I have tons of work and some mowing to do.  But today I thought I'd show one of the custom signs I made last weekend for a client.  I've made this sign several times before but each time it was a white background with black writing...

....Like this one...

.....But this time, it's the reverse.

And I think I like it better this way.  What do you think?  Thanks for stopping by.

Thousand year sign...

Hi Everyone!  I just wanted to show you one of the custom order signs I made recently.  It was ordered for a wedding.

It was painted with a blue undercoat and a cream top coat.....

 ....then it was sanded lightly to show the blue through the cream....

 ...and the saying was hand painted in red....

..I love this saying...and I hope the bride was happy with it...and best wishes to the happy couple.  I hope their wedding day and life together is wonderful.  Thank you for letting my sign (and therefore me) be apart of it.   Thanks for stopping by.

Seeing red....

Hi Everyone!  It was a good building weekend.  I was busy working on inventory for the Arbor Fair in a couple of weeks.  Sunday I built two benches and a couple of storage boxes and tonight I made all the cuts for a third bench which I plan on putting together tomorrow night.  But tonight, I thought I'd show you one of the signs I made recently for a client.  I've made a couple of these Fresh Produce signs in green.

 I like it in the green.....

 ...but I think I like it even better in the red.

I created a special mix of red for this sign and I'm really happy with how the red turned out.  It took me three coats of red to get the coverage I wanted and I careful scraped away the red to reveal the white and black layers that were beneath the red.  If I had sanded it, it would have given the white a pink tint, which I really didn't want.  I wanted it to look like it had chipped off and I think it turned out well.  So that's just one of the things I made recently.  Thanks for stopping by.

A custom hand painted sign...

Hi Everyone!  Merry Christmas Eve!  I'm sure you're all running around trying to get last minute things accomplished, I worked until noon today, now I'm working on a couple of orders that came in this weekend and waiting until it's time to head over to my parents for Christmas Eve.  I'm making chicken stir-fry at my parents house tonight.  It's just the three of us for Christmas this year....my brother's family couldn't make it.

Today, I thought I'd show you one of the custom orders I received this holiday season. 

 I was asked to make this as a Christmas gift for a wife to her husband.  I doubt he reads my blog, so I think it's safe to show it before he opens it tomorrow.

 I made this on a piece of scrap wood that has some gouges in it...which I think adds to the look of it (they don't really show up in the pictures).

 I was a little nervous about painting a deer (I had never done it before).  But I'm really happy with the way it turned out.

I hand painted the lettering and the scrolls and decorative lines.  If you look closely, you can see that the right and left sides of the decorative edges aren't exactly identical.  I just couldn't make them match.  So now I need to get back to work on the two orders I received this weekend.  Funny thing is, they are both for my trio of dandelion paintings.

Which seem so strange to be painting at this time of year, but I love making these and it gets me thinking of spring/summer, especially since it's cold here and the wind is blowing.  I hope you are ready for Christmas and enjoy this time with your family and friends.  Merry Christmas Friends!  And thanks for stopping by!

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