This is my daughter’s ballet bag that I designed for her when she first started ballet.
At the time I didn’t know how long she or the bag would last with ballet. Twelve is a little late to start and the classes only get more intense as you get older.
I’m proud to say that at 15 she’s still dancing, taking classes and performing.
As for the bag it is still in great shape. And the drawings on it of her 12 year old feet in the five positions are a great reminder of where she started.
Thank you so much to everyone who has made purchases at my online shops. XOXO
Buying something from one of my shops gives you a chance to cyber shop, shop small and to get a unique item.
This week my Society6 shop is going to have a bunch of good deals each day for the next seven days. I’ll let you know about those through my Instagram account as they come.
Today is the first deal. Through Dec. 14, 2014 midnight PST, I have an artist promo for my shop.
Use the link below to get free shipping* plus $5 off everything in my shop.
http://society6.com/atlanticmo?promo=7P923WR7PF86
*Offer excludes Framed Art Prints, Stretched Canvases and Rugs
Don’t forget about my other shops and thanks again,
Moira
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Not that long ago I learned how to make a repeat pattern using Photoshop.
I wanted to use pattern for some of my products in my Society6 shop. I love the way some of the other artists at Society6 us pattern on the pillows, duvet covers, shower curtains and tote bags. I’m always up for learning new things so I thought I’d try it out with some images I already had.
Pattern making was so much fun, once I got the hang of it. I just wanted to make everything into a pattern and now I want to learn more techniques other than a basic repeat.
Once I got going I remembered some friends that had made some patterns into fabric at the Spoonflower website. I thought that could be fun and I opened a shop there.
As I was exploring the Spoonflower website I saw that they have a weekly themed contest. As I clicked on the contest page I hoped that this week’s theme would be “Birds”. Ha, ha that would be too easy. It wasn’t “Birds”. It was, “Ballet” and the deadline to enter was that night at midnight.
Thanks to my ballet dancing daughter, I was already planning a ballet design. And It just so happened that earlier that day I had taken pictures of my daughter’s feet in the five basic ballet positions.
My daughter who sometimes acts as my art director needed a new bag for ballet and she had the great idea of a pattern with the five positions.
So, once dinner and homework was done I went up in the studio and drew my daughter’s feet.
I used the internet to make sure I had the positions correct and in my research I learned the french names for the different positions. So, I added some hand lettered text to the pattern with the french names bellow each foot position. I added a touch of ballet pink and a few transparent butterflies.
As the French say, “Voila”.
I got the pattern done in time for that midnight deadline with five minutes to spare.
I didn’t win the contest that week, but I did have one very happy client.
