Friday, May 2, 2025

Products

Spring 2025
Here are some of the products I have been working on the past few months.
Sodarrific shirts. I think the soda shop is hoping to sell some to customers as well as use them for their employees. The shop is really small so I played around with packaging so they could: know what was on the back of each shirt w/o unwrapping, store in an organized manner and be packaged nicely for the customers.  

I had high hopes for these bracelets. They have "Look unto Christ" engraved on them which is the youth theme this year. I ordered them through a supplier in China for a stake Relief Society conference this year. Because I already had the bulk pricing, I ordered an extra 100 to list on my ETSY. 
I listed them on my ETSY after the new year so I think wards/stakes had already purchased gifts for their young women. When I didn't have many bites, I designed stickers to go with the theme and listed the bracelets to include a free sticker with each order. They still didn't move.
Looking back, I am really grateful they didn't sell because when our RS conference rolled around in April, we found out that the bracelets were not made well. Most of the bracelets wouldn't stay tightened. Because I had extra from my ETSY shop, I was able to weed out and replace some of the worst ones. The sisters were so excited for this beautiful gift...that I'm sure ended up being thrown in the trash. A definite fail.


I love this Texas shirt. I have gifted and sold a few but I think they would be a big hit. (But I haven't listed them anywhere so there's that...) I have another one that has lots of cities of Texas listed in the shape of Texas.  
Cute holiday merch
I think these Grandma shirts are so pretty and fun.


Roomies! This was a fun reunion that I got to crash. Angelique has kept in touch with her freshman and sophomore BYU roommates over the years, and they planned a reunion in the "Big O" this spring. Well, three of the five of the group were also my roommates so they invited me to join in as often as I would like over the weekend. 

I joined in for a lunch, an evening visit and then we had a quick shirt making activity at my house. It was wonderful to catch up, laugh about old memories, share hard things and rejoice that we were still sisters in the Lord.
Jenn Gillens Chapman, me, Beth Payne Harrison, Angelique Vore
I lived with these three for Spring semester of my freshman year. Then, after my mission, I roomed with Beth again. Jenn was in the same ward and hung out all of the time at our apartment. We also hung out with the same group of guys across the street in The Brittany apartments.

These two were able to meet Brian and watch our dating turn into love. I remember Beth telling me, "he has good eyes." She went on to explain what she meant: you can tell he is a really good guy- you can see his goodness through his eyes. It's true. He is still a good, good man!

The true reunion group at my house making shirts. 
Cheryl, Ang, Charlene, Beth & Jenn

There is a sweet Catholic lady who orders custom designs from me. Here are a couple she recently requested. (She told me her idea and I purchased the designs from Etsy.)

Tiny onesies for a local church. They give them as a gift to the families when they have a baby.

And lastly, I have done a few versions of these cancer shirts. I appreciate how something as small as a shirt can feel so unifying and supportive.




 

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