Pella Swim Club - Team Poster

Our local USA Swim Club wanted to have team posters made.  The cost to have them printed locally was going to cost us $10/poster - cost prohibited.  I began searching for on-line resources.  Vistaprint was discovered.  

Wow what a great job they did - 50 posters for $56.  

I used MSPublisher to do the layout - uploaded the design and with-in 2 weeks we had posters to distribute to local businesses that supported our Club.  

Greater Iowa Swim League State T-shirts

This year Pella Swim Team will be hosting the Greater Iowa Swim League State Swim meet with Grinnell.  I have been asked to create the event t-shirts.  I recently discovered Wordle.  A super fun creative way to use words with color.  The design below was used using the Wordle.Net website.  Hope to use it again when creating shirts for our local team.

Our shirts are being printed by Graphx2atee owned by Sportspage.

Pella Swim Club - Team Logo

Pella Swim Club received their USA Swimming Charter in March of 2011.  This fall I began working on a logo for the club.  Below is the final rendition.  We will be using it on our caps and shirts.  

2 color logo on red caps

2 color logo on white

Single color logo on white

Step Stool

My husband and I made step stools for all the nieces and nephews one year for Christmas.  Each one was individually painted with something unique.  He cut out and assembled the stools and I painted them.

* I am hoping to find the original blue prints my husband created so we can upload the plans for others to use.  The inspiration for the painting was taken from a piece of wrapping paper.

A matching pillowcase

Over the last few years I have taught a number of 4-H youth and my art students how to make their own pillowcases using this pattern I found on the internet.

http://www.mormonchic.com/crafty/pillowcases.asp

Most recently I made a pillowcase to match one of the Graduation T-shirt quilts.

Graduation T-shirt Quilt

A Graduation T-shirt quilt made for a young man from 18 t-shirt pieces.

Graduation T-shirt Quilt

Another Graduation Quilt made from 18 t-shirt pieces.

Homemade rosettes for a strap

This bride wanted a single shoulder strap added to her strapless wedding gown.  She wanted it made of rosettes.    I used left over fabric from the dress that was altered and a sash that she was not going to use.  The end result.

1 Wedding Gown = A 1st Eucharist Dress

Our daughter Callista celebrated her 1st Eucharist this April.  Three years ago I approached our oldest daughter to see if she would like me to create a First Communion dress for her from my wedding gown.  She did not want any lace and so I waited till this year when our youngest celebrated her Sacrament and embraced the idea.

I started with sketches and then disassembled the original wedding gown that I designed and created 19 years ago.  I found a basic dress pattern and then sloped my design from the basic pattern.  I made the sleeves fuller, added darts and ribbon accents to the bodice, pleated the skirt and lined it.

The finished dress is more beautiful then I could have imagined.  If you attend the Iowa State Fair visit the Fabric and Threads exhibits to see the dress on display.

Homemade Tatoo Paint

As a coordinator to help with crafts at our local Mom's group one year we decide the ladies would make children friendly recipe scrapbooks.  Each meeting the Mom's came together and created 2-3  4"x6" pages that would be placed in a small photo-album.  Once the year was over I continued to add more pages and create books for gifts.