as you know, mrs. jones loves babies, and had the pleasure of receiving a visit from three exquisite little ones today:

grace, mary claire, and hampton.

grace’s mom had requested a couple of things for her walls, including something with a trad monogram and a bird, in pinks, greens and browns.  i hope grace will enjoy these.

(for the background on the monogram: a good old rocker-grainer tool.  the bird is from stencil 1.  the branches and leaves are bits of the stencil library’s cherry blossom # dr.2)(and of course it had to fancied up just a little, with some distressed gilding the edges of the board.)