Home Sweet Home wooden sign

I am totally obsessed with wood signs.  Pretty sure my house is going to be plastered with them at some point.  Maybe I'll dedicate a whole wall for them.  :)  Ok, probably not but I do enjoy making them! 

 

For this sign I decided to go with the good ol' "Home Sweet Home".  I swear, figuring out which font to use is the hardest part!  I chose a few different ones and then took a vote from my Facebook friends on which one they liked the best:

 

 

 

Forgive the poor picture quality, most of these are taken with my cell phone.

Most people liked the 2nd set.

While I was still figuring out which one I wanted, I decided to start painting the base coats.  I went with cream and a red color.

 

 

Decision time!  Which font do I go with??? 

Most voters liked the swirly fonts the best but for me, it was a little TOO much of swirly so I decided to actually go with the font in the 2nd picture for the words "Home" and the font from the 1st picture for "Sweet".

 

 

I thought it was a good compromise!  :)

This was after one coat of black.  After it had dried I went back over it to make it smoother.

Painting words is hard for me because I'm naturally a shaky person so I get a lot of squiggles where I don't want squiggles so I have to try to go very

S L O W L Y.

 

I then used my trusty antique glaze after I sanded down the edges and scratched up the words a little bit, to give it a more distressed look (my favorite).

It was hard deciding what exactly to use to hang the sign but I ended up using twine.  I then added a burlap flower and some cute bakers twine to give it more personality. 

 

 

I think it turned out SUPER CUTE! 

I'm hoping the flower stays on good!  It sticks out a little ways but hopefully it's hung in a spot in my hallway that won't get bumped or rubbed against too much to knock it off.