Family Home Sign Post #1

My Sister in-law and the some of her coworkers have asked me to make a Famly Home sign for their boss for Christmas.  So I google mapped their house and did the streetview thing and got a pretty good picture of the front of their house.  Pretty scarry how easy that was.  So I did a screen print into MS Paint, drew around all the edges with black and erased all the other colors and this is what I ended up with.  The fonts were done in MS Power Point using the Word Art function and I put it all together in MS Visio, grouped them into one object and saved them as a bitmap.  About an hour to do the whole image.  Someday I'll have to step up my game and get Photo Shop.  But for now, I use the tools I have and do my best.  Today, I'll pick up the wood to make the sign, I'm not very impressed with the board stock at either Lowes or Home Depot, so I'll probably go to Michaels and see what they have in basswood.  Their prices are a bit high, but I have a 40% off coupon and I don't have enough time to order online from Heineke.  And so It begins.  Stay tuned for more updates as this project progresses.  Please, If you by any chance know the family who's name is going to be on this carving, keep this a secret until after Christmas.  OK?