Mei-Lin and her mama
I’m definitely one for making gifts rather than buying them, but sometimes the time and energy is just a bit much. Still, I enjoy the satisfaction of giving something of my own design and creativity.
For Mother’s day this year, I designed a t-shirt for my sister on Zazzle.com. I didn’t want to make the typical picture on a shirt design, so I “rocked” it up a bit by choosing a baseball style shirt, used a black & white version of a picture I took of my niece and added “Mum says I ROCK!” for more of that Brit flair.
I was very happy with the result! I have one that I made of my son as well (I’ll post it later). I took a picture and submitted it to Zazzle’s blog to get a coupon on my next purchase (my mom wants one, too), and I received an email that they would post it to their site at some point. Click on the picture on the left to be taken to their blog and you’ll see my sister and her daughter on Zazzle’s website (you have to scroll down a bit to the July 2 entry, under “Foto Friday”).
(Isn’t my niece cute? She definitely knows how to pose for the camera. Believe it or not, I didn’t teach her that.)
Photo by Cyrillynn Chen