Brittany Gonzalez has customized and designed clothes since she was a senior in high school. The Houston sophomore’s mother showed her the basics of the machine, and from there she experimented and taught herself. “I just do it for fun, that is really what it started off as,” she says. “Sometimes, I would go to Forever 21 and I would just see stuff that I didn’t like, or things that I thought I could do, but I could do better than what they did.” What started as a hobby turned into a small business once people started to notice her work. Brittany creates her designs on a computer and prints out the pattern. Next, she places it on a piece of clothing and uses a heat press to make it stick. “The process is pretty easy,” the nursing major says. “It usually doesn’t take me too long, depending on the design. Sometimes I can make things within 30 minutes, sometimes it can take me a few hours — it depends on what I am putting the design on.” Brittany also designs accessories, footwear and cups. She’s also done designs for LU’s Black Student Association and Sigma Gamma Rho.