I volunteered to make trophies for a cardboard boat regatta - I had no idea at the time what I would do, but felt confident I could figure something out. I did some googling and found a couple of examples that sparked my creativity. With the help of my handy husband to cut plywood ...

A group of us at church worked together to create some carnival games for the Society for Handicapped Citizens in Medina. There were quite a few we made, but I only photographed one. I'm impressed at the creativity of people, I'd have never come up with the idea for the game, but I was ...

A simple and quick sign for a garage sale. I had some giant googly eyes that lent themselves well to being o's and the rest just kind of happened. I got lots of folks coming up commenting on what an eye-catching and unique sign I had. Mission accomplished, right?

Many communities have something they do big each year. In Chippewa Lake, the community that CrossPointe Community Church is a part of, it's the 4th of July parade. Each year has a theme, and the theme in 2013 was Patriotic 4th. We chose to represent iconic parts of our country's history. I jumped at ...

I found a cute (if plain looking) kid-sized desk at a secondhand store and it was the perfect opportunity to turn it into something special. A coat of bright blue spraypaint was the perfect base for a line of green grass at the bottom for a menagerie of fun summer flowers to bloom out ...