Do you decorate your skating bags?

[Sessy]

I decorated mine.
The first picture is for my small skating bag, it's an application I made out of cotton material with the zigzag on the sewing machine. I broke the pedal of the sewing machine (well, it had to go sometime, seeing as the thing is over 50 years old) and for my larger skating bag, I painted on it with acryl paint. The cotton cloth which I wipe my brushes with after using didn't come clean at all even after boil-washing it, so I'm hoping the acryl paint can handle rain as well.

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Especially the right skate didn't come out too nicely on the photo, it's all a bit sharper than my camera lets me photograph.


So, did you decorate your bag? If you have, post pictures!

[Rusty Blades]

Nice socks ;)

[Sessy]

They're nice and warm, thank you very much, and those are my home slippers. :lol:

[blackmanskating]

I have a zuca bag and the only decoration I put on it is a bumper sticker that says, "I love to ice skate." I don't think I'll be doing much else to it either.:giveup:

BlackManSkating

[Skittl1321]

Looks good!

Nope- I don't decorate mine. I actually have two a "rink" bag and a "traveling" bag. And they also both double as stamping bags (for when I travel with my stamps). They are Lands End totes- and the medium one (rink bag) is monogrammed with my initials and the large one (travel tote- fits snacks, costumes, tights, makeup) has my name monogrammed on it.

Large Bag: http://www.landsend.com/pp/ZipTopTotes-66223_123835_1343.html?CM_MERCH=SRCH (In blue, IMO a bit too big)
Medium bag: http://www.landsend.com/pp/OpenTopTotes-76275_118740_1342.html?CM_MERCH=SRCH (In red, I want more this bag is fantastic!)

[SynchroSk8r114]

Sorry, I don't have any pics to post, but my mom embroiders and she has embroidered my initials and a figure skate in my favorite colors on all of my skating bags over the years. Thirteen years later, she still does it. It's very sweet!

[TreSk8sAZ]

I don't decorate them, usually. I have a "practice" bag that is a plain purple color, but my "competition" bag was given to us by our club as gifts for Sectionals/Nationals, and that is in the club colors (red, black and white) with the club name and my name embroidered on it.

[Bill_S]

Being a male skater, I bought mine pre-decorated... ;)

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~schneidw/skating/images/skate_bag.jpg

Hey, was Eddie Bauer a former figure skater and is now selling these ultra-hip designer bags...? :twisted:

[Morgail]

Those look great Sessy!
I'm not that crafty. My bag is plain and boring. I have this bag in blue: http://www.transpack.net/Skate/ICE2.htm

[airyfairy76]

They look fab Sessy!

As my bag is covered with flowery bits, there's not much room for decoration! Maybe I can find some dangly bits somewhere . . . :lol:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1225/1251946940_ae16af9b04_o.jpg

[flo]

I have a Zuca with two inserts - light blue and presently purple. I have a skater frog I got in France hanging on the frame and a Yukon Bold bear coffee sticker on the bag. It was from starbucks and on my skating sweater and fell off.

[Sessy]

Looks good!

Nope- I don't decorate mine. I actually have two a "rink" bag and a "traveling" bag. And they also both double as stamping bags (for when I travel with my stamps).

Stamping bags? Travel with stamps? *puzzled look* You mean like stamps on envelopes?

Being a male skater, I bought mine pre-decorated... ;)

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~schneidw/skating/images/skate_bag.jpg

Hey, was Eddie Bauer a former figure skater and is now selling these ultra-hip designer bags...? :twisted:

I have almost the exact same bag in dark red and grey, mine only doesn't have the extra handle on top, that's the smaller bag I talked of that I made the first application for :)
Bauer is most famous for making hockey skates here, so everybody keeps asking if I play hockey when I have that bag, so I wanted to clarify. And then I decided to decorate the other bag too...
It's funny at the other end of the world they have the same bags! Or are you from UK?

:twisted:

As my bag is covered with flowery bits, there's not much room for decoration! Maybe I can find some dangly bits somewhere . . . :lol:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1225/1251946940_ae16af9b04_o.jpg

Those transpacks are really smart, they ventilate! Hey! That's really smart!

[Sessy]

Those look great Sessy!
I'm not that crafty. My bag is plain and boring. I have this bag in blue: http://www.transpack.net/Skate/ICE2.htm

But it ventilates! And it's multifunctional! :bow:

[airyfairy76]

Those transpacks are really smart, they ventilate! Hey! That's really smart!

The ventilation is a fantastic feature - it does mean I don't have to worry about unpacking my whole bag when I get home to let my skates breathe!

It's great as a backpack too - on lesson days, I have to take absolutely everything in it - full change of clothes, skates, guards and other skating accoutrements, diary, purse etc. etc. and it all fits! Bit heavy on those days though :lol:

[Morgail]

But it ventilates! And it's multifunctional! :bow:

Yup - I really do like it. I only meant that it wasn't decorated like yours:) I wanted it in pink, but it was sold out in pink (and every other color except blue) at Christmas-time. It is a great bag though. It holds everything I drag to the rink.

[Skittl1321]

Stamping bags? Travel with stamps? *puzzled look* You mean like stamps on envelopes?



Nope- I mean rubber stamps. I do card making
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=69416

You would be absolutely amazed at how much stuff I have, and carry with me when I go to friends to stamp.

[miraclegro]

My bag i got at a yard sale, and it is very plain. Maybe i should do something fancy....

[Clarice]

I have a blue Transpack, and I love it. I guess I've decorated it, if you count hanging stuff on it. At the moment, there's a name/address tag, a keychain thing that holds a tube of lip balm, a little stuffed penguin (because my program last year was to March of the Penguins), a Jackson Ultima keychain, and a keychain from Buffet Crampon/Boosey & Hawkes (who made my clarinets).

[Mrs Redboots]

Mine is a canvas laptop bag I bought in a closing-down sale for half nothing - bought Husband an identical one, but his new skates don't fit. Mine did have my initial on it in fabric paint, but it didn't really show; just enough to distinguish it from Husband's. And it sometimes has a pretty zip-pull, but doesn't at the moment.

[Sessy]

Hmm more creativity for now (hey, with that ankle, I still can't skate so... well)

Leather soles, lycra shoes and dress, cardboard gold-spray-painted blades.

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[littlekateskate]

My daughter has the backpack with ventilation on the sides for the skates. I know a 4 year old wont be taking them out and making sure they get aired out. And i normally carry it. I do love her bag and have considered getting one for myself. We just sew her patches on her bag. That is all the decoration she has other then a skate zipper pull on the zipper!