Typography fun

What I miss most about school is just doing designs for me, especially typography projects. For a long time I have wanted to convert little sayings or even nursery rhymes into little typographic treatment. Just something fun to do and explore. 

I started with 'A watched pot never boils'. Above are a couple different quick sketches. I like the ones that have 'A watched pot' lots of time, implying that there are many eyes or glances, but I think all in all, I like the simple one with just the focused 'stare'.

Needs to be hammered out a little more. Some fiddling will be done until I get it to look how I want. Not sure if I like the 'boils' so obviously spelled out. Maybe some more letters in there would give the design more texture and layers. Who knows, I'll keep trying until I figure it out.