Baby JJ

Of course it didn't take long before we started work on our next sign, but this time it was personal. On December 15, 2010 Joseph James was born. He made us aunts for the first time!! Needless to say we were beyond excited to take on this new role of Aunt! We didn't initially make him a sign since his parents had already bought him name letters for his nursery. After seeing Christian's name sign, his mom asked that we make him a sign too! Of course the first thing we asked was what she wanted on it. She said a monkey since he had a monkey bouncer. The colors on the bounce were green and white, so we decided to paint the base a sage green and the border brown. We tried to give it a unique junglesque appearance by leaving rugged edges and using vine lettering. We then applied the monkey and little grass pieces we cut out from scrapbook paper that we had on hand. The monkey we used is actually the very same monkey that was featured on his bouncer. A finishing touch that we added to this one that we did not do on the previous one was a ribbon tie so that the sign could be hung up on the wall. Finished product below:

Aunties love our sweet little JJ!!

~Amy and Christina~