MOSAIC MOMENTS

It is amazing how things for IMDSA begin to just flow and continue to move forward so rapidly that we sometimes don’t have time to blink!

Last month, one of our members, Becky, wanted for us to work with a temporary tattoo company who makes tattoos for children. These tattoos allow you to write information on them and if the child gets lost, the “finder” can return the child.

It was a simple request…. Or at least it seemed to be….

In order to make these tattoos, we needed to make an awareness ribbon that would be specific to mosaic Down syndrome. This is something that we had been talking about for quite a while, but never really had the time or know-how to do it.

So, we ask another member, Judie,  if she could make the ribbon for us. Judie and her granddaughter had made our Genes Day logo back at the beginning of the year and everyone loved it so much that we wanted to incorporate that design with our ribbon.

With a lot of hard work and some extra learning on graphic design Judie and her granddaughter, Therese, were able to make us a wonderful awareness ribbon that represented mosaic Down syndrome and IMDSA.

We were thrilled! The ribbon was beautiful and represented all of our colors of IMDSA! It represents DNA and has the “mosaic” pattern that we were looking for!

Now that we had our ribbon, I decided that we could use it in our new logo design. We have been wanting to change our logo for some time now, but have never found something that quite fit for us. So, I worked for days trying to learn all about graphic design (I am not as computer savvy as I would like to be) and finally I came to something that I was happy with. I sent it to our Board of Directors and they all agreed that this was the logo for us!

Now that we had our new logo that meant that we had to change all of our letterheads and our info packets. In the process of all of these changes, we decided to update our family brochure with some slight information changes along with our new logo.

Now, that we had our new logo we decided to make a new website since these past seven years we have been .com and we wanted to get a .org. And, with that new site we decided to change up the look of our site.

IMDSA’s web designer/secretary, Lisa, lives in Australia. I live in America. There is a big time difference between the two of us. So, in order for us to work together to make changes to the site, we each had to stay up well past midnight for several days in a row.

Finally, this morning around 5am my time Lisa and I were able to get our web site up and running!!

WWW.IMDSA.ORG

We are very excited to have our new site and our new look!

Of course, now that our website address has changed, Judie and her granddaughter will have to change the awareness ribbon to imdsa.org instead of imdsa.com! So, we are back to the beginning of why all this began in the first place….

WE HAVE TO MAKE TATTOOS!!!

 Thanks a lot Becky!  

Your request wasn’t as simple as you first thought!

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