Surprise! Floral Alphabet - Hard Enamel Pins

I started designing this pin set in December of 2024 with the help of my 5 year old son.  I didn't intend these to be pins, but here is what happend.

He was hanging out with me in the studio and I asked him what I should draw.  I expected him to request an animal or a car or something like that but to my surprise he said the alphabet.  After a few follow up questions it seemed he really did mean exactly what he had said.  So we set about a multi-week project of designing our own font, creating each letter line by line, not just typed text.  

When we were finished he was quite pleased.  I asked him if he wanted to do anything else with this project.  He suggested we should decorate the letters!  I suggested several boyish themes that I thought he might like, but he shot them all down.  

"Mommy like flowers.", he said.  It seemed that he had a different audience in mind than himself.  ♥

And so we decorated each letter with vines, leaves and flowers and had a wonderful time doing it!

When we finished up the designs in late January he told me that he couldn't wait to give Mommy her letter M pin...

I hadn't intended these to be pins, it was just something fun we were doing together, but after mulling it over I think he was right.   I believe that these should indeed be made as pins.

I can't help but smile and think of these as 'love letters' from a little boy to his mother.