This is the paddle my big made for me, even though traditional paddles were discouraged.
This is the back, she wrote some wonderfully significant stuff on the back. I still love my paddle to this day.
I made a paddle for my big, but for my little and my pseudo-little (my twin took a little, and then dropped out of school the following quarter, so I adopted her little), I made wooden kites. Similar to the ADPi diamonds above. I wish I had taken pictures of them. I'm not very creative, but my Theta roomate that year was an art major, and she showed me some kick-ass techniques and they made the kites look amazing. On the back of each kite I painted our family tree, which was easy at the time because our chapter was only 6 years old at the time.