Welcome to Barn House Homestead!

I have been working with my cousin, Kalynda Haaf, on a logo to market the food products we will be producing at the Barn House Homestead. (Hey, how do you like the name?) We are already producing honey, though our volume should jump next year with more attention paid to the bees, and less, say, to replacing crushed water pipes. Next up will be eggs, laid by small flock of hens, followed by  milk and cheese, produced by Nigerian Dwarf goats.

The image you see above is a work in progress --pretty close to completion. We are working on a version for dairy and eggs, as well. I really love the work Kalynda has done on this project, especially since the two of us have not actually met.

Kalynda based the design on the actual front of our barn-shaped house, which looks like this:

Kalynda is the bilingual grandaughter of my father's sister, and she lives in the Netherlands, while I live in central Arkansas. She has been a Facebook friend of mine for years, and we hope to meet in the next few years, Kalynda is a talented designer and has her own business in the Netherlands.She is multinational, with both of her parents having spent time in the US and The Netherlands.

She speaks both Dutch and English, is delightful to chat with, and does really nice visual work.

Here is Kalynda's site: Haaf Visual and while you are there, check out that beautiful owl logo she made by my I am an Arkansas Public School Teacher FB page. Nice!

Here is another treatment of the logo that we plan to use to promote our eggs:

If you need some graphic design work, contact Kalynda throuugh her website, or find her on my Facebook friend list.  She is hoping to come back to the states for a visit and, last I heard, even contemplating an internship here in video production. Perhaps your design job could help her accomplish that goal!