Cozy Cap Creations

When I was pregnant with the twins, I use to wonder what little hobby I could do. I tried a few things but it was a mess and our home isn't the largest to create my own personal space to contain my junk in one room. The extra room and spaces we had were mainly for toys. Many parents can relate to that. What's mine is there's and what's there's is...there's. The fall temps started to come in the end of September and I jumped on etsy.com. etsy.com is a handmade website where you can find anything and everything exactly the way you want it. Literally anything. It's mainly little shop artists willing to create whatever you want. So I started searching for matching hats for my three. After filling up my shopping cart on the website my total was $101.73. First thought was, how do I justify this and tell my husband the total. Then I started to think this is only THREE hats. I realized this was someone else's time and money into yarn but financially we couldn't swing it with twice the formula and twice the diapers and honestly it wasn't worth stressing my husband out. So I sadly cleared my shopping card.

That weekend I went to visit my parents with the kids. My parents live in Lake Orion, a town 45 minutes north of Detroit. I went to JoAnn fabrics with my little 40% off one non sale item and grabbed a ball or two of yarn. I sat down with my mother who taught me how to begin a hat. From there, I did it on my own. I began having friends and family asking for hats and my husband encouraged me to start up an etsy shop. THERE IT WAS!!! MY LITTLE NOOK! My craft. My hobby outside of changing diapers, filling and refilling sippies all day and cleaning up toys. Finally something for me. Last year I did 4 craft shows and it was seriously some of the most fun I've ever had! I love seeing everyone else's table and the response to my work, well, it just made me feel pretty good. It's definitely what I needed after being cooped up in the house while pregnant and especially after they were born.

My goal in my etsy shop was to create a price point reasonable for customers and to give people something unique that you couldn't find anywhere else!

A special thank you to Finn Photography (http://finnphotography.blogspot.com/) for all of her work and time she has help me put into my little business!