The Sherman Family

Regular readers of my blog may well remember the birthday card I made for 9 year old Keshet and how she was so thrilled with it that she decided to use it as a door sign for her newly decorated bedroom. Well, her parents recently celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary and mum decided that to mark the occasion the whole family were going to have door signs made by me!

Warning! Lots of photos to follow.

Their eldest daughter, teenager Eden, likes Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and, um, is rather into her phone! She goes to the NOAM Zionist youth movement (NOAM is an acronym for No'ar Masorti, Masorti Youth) and enjoys reading. Mum asked me to make the background colour of her door sign turquoise. (Apparently the background colours for all the signs correspond to the mezzuzot on their bedroom doors.)

Meital likes the chocolate bar Twix. She loves to dance, collects LOL dolls (they were a new one to me!) and likes hearts and glitter. The background colour for her door sign should be pink, mum said.

Aharon and Nadav share a bedroom. Aharon, on the right, supports Leeds United and is a big football fan in general. He is also very musical, so mum asked me to include some music notes and his keyboard on the door sign. I was also asked to show Aharon's robot Mechanoid, which is very cool!

Nadav is currently into DUPLO, the big LEGO blocks, though his interests will likely change!

The background colour for their sign is orange.

Now it was mum and dad's turn! Like his son, Dan is also rather passionate about Leeds United, so Jacky asked me to include the club badge on their door sign and to use the team colours of blue, yellow and white for it. The couple are both runners, so I added a pair of running shoes as well. A big yellow number 20 marks their special anniversary. Finally, Dan loves the slogan "Enjoy the chaos" and on a good day it does kind of suit us, mum said. I included that on their sign too. 

Keshet's door sign, posted once again at the bottom of this post, completes the set.

Mum was thrilled with all the door signs. "I find it amazing that you captured our family in such a special way" she wrote to me. I was delighted to receive some lovely photos too. "Earlier today I put up the door signs" she messaged me, "they look AMAZING!!!!" Then everyone came home and agreed to pose for a photo, copying the exact pose I had crafted them in as well!

Something tells me that they were very happy with their new signs. What a lovely project this was to work on!

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Marjorie

It's always fun to try new things so, when a customer wrote to me and told me that she was looking for a poster for her friends 50th birthday that could be signed by all her friends, I was happy to put my thinking cap on and come up with something creative.
My customer needed something big enough for 25 to 30 people to sign. She wanted something like my greeting cards - a picture of the birthday girl, along with her name, some interests and something about it being her 50th - but with lots of white space around it for signing.

Marjorie likes baking cupcakes, cookies, brownies and more, my customer told me. She has a dog, Chloe. She is Canadian. She is very close to her family and their little group of 10 close friends. Oh, and she's a big reader too. It was also suggested that I add a bottle of wine and some chocolate!

I created a 50x60cm poster of Marjorie using her favourite colours - pink, yellow and red. I have shown her with one arm round Chloe the dog and the other holding up a plate of cupcakes. A bottle of red wine and some chocolate, along with a small pile of books, can be seen on her right, while on her left a big number 50 marks her age and the Canadian flag her birthplace. Finally I added some little red hearts with the words SISTERS, FRIENDS and FAMILY on them to represent how Marjorie's family and friends are very important to her.
"The sign in board was a HUGE success, thank you so much!" my customer wrote to me. "Both Marjorie and her husband couldn't get over how well you rendered Chloe - right down to the tag on her collar!"

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