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Griffi es dress and embellished it with her own touches, most notably 1,500 rhinestones. “I stoned it myself,” Revor said. “I bet I put
20 hours of work into it.” Revor, a 28-year-old e-marketing specialist,
debuted the dress last season but added hun- dreds of stones to give the dress an even more elegant look.
“I looked at a lot of elite skater dresses for
ideas,” she said. “I literally Googled designs and then made my own.” Will the dress receive another update for
next season? “I’m afraid if I put any more on there, it might topple,” she said with a laugh.
KEN’S FLOWERS ARE BLOSSOMING
Ken Ho is one busy adult skater. When
he’s not training at the Robert Morris Universi- ty Inland Sports Center or working as an HIV/ infectious disease specialist, he devotes much of his free time creating paper fl owers to give to competitors. Ho started his fl ower tradition at his fi rst U.S. Adult Championships in 2008. “I started off buying fresh fl owers for every-
one my fi rst year,” the Pittsburgh FSC member said. “T e problem was that the fl owers didn’t last. T ey sometimes didn’t survive being tossed on the ice and they were, frankly, a little bit ex-
pensive to get for everyone.” One day he saw a paper fl ower kit in a
store. “T ey were essentially packets — paper,
wire, tape and glue. So I bought a few, learned to make them and realized I didn’t need to buy the kits at all. You can get everything at a local craft store,” Ho said. “Ken’s Flowers” were born. Each unique
fl ower features a rainbow of colors and takes about 10 minutes to make. T is year, he start- ed his labor of love before Christmas and kept making them right up until the event. He came to Hyannis with 70 beautiful fl owers. “It’s sort of my token of thanks for going
out there, competing, performing and for every- thing that comes before that moment,” Ho said. “Next year my goal will be to have one
for every person competing at adult nationals. T at’s 1½ fl owers I have to make every day for the next year.”
— Joanne Vassallo Jamrosz
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