Oakley

I have a new little nephew. This is my little brother’s first (and perhaps only?) child. This brother is the youngest of my siblings and he didn’t have any of his own children until Oakley was born…and daddy is 42 years old. So I wanted to make something extra-special and unique. I knew they would be receiving plenty of handcrafted blankets, booties, hats, and outfits. So, I decided to make a wood-burning of Oakley’s newborn photo and add all of his birth stats for them.

Here is the completed (pyrography) piece I made for them next to the original photo I was working from. I guess I really should have rotated the completed piece a little to the left so that you can better compare for resemblance. I wasn’t sure how to frame the circle of wood so decided to create a hand-tooled leather background for it. Hearts are stamped around the edge of the picture and there is a hole punched at the top for hanging.