Summary

I wanted to mix up the Christmas spirit with a new artistic style to get away from the traditional but still keep the Spirit alive.  I researched Art Deco and than landed on Mid-century modern with it's funky sign letters, earthy colors schemes, and wonky shapes.  The stars and other rayed shapes from mid-century mod work well for connoting Christmas so I used that element in the design.  The sign is built from a trapezoidal cut of sapele plywood I purchased from Amazon but happened to be an xtool selection of wood, than I cut the outward or top layer of the letters for NOEL from bassword, than two layers of clear arcylic, one for the frosted letter look, and the layer closest to the wood to house the fairy lights in.  It turned out pretty well.  I tried using EL string light to have a more uniform glow but the EL lights in white are not bright enough.  So I went back with my budget friendly battery based Fairy lights.  I have an alternative battery based string light I found at Hobby Lobby which has a built in 6 hour on, 18 hour off timer but the battery pack was quite large and for this I didn't want that hanging off the back of the sign.