I started my Etsy journey in 2013. I had just had my middle child who was my rainbow baby after 2 years of trying to have another baby and several heart breaks. I had been on sick leave for months. Because I had just had a baby I needed a way to bring in a little income to help the family out with out having to go back to my old job with a 1.5 hour commute each way. So I started my first shop. SugarPickle Designs https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/SugarPickleDesigns

As a photographer I had purchased from Etsy a lot. Templates, newborn props, backdrops etc. I had noticed that there was one template missing in all the template shops that I had made my own of but no one else was selling. So my first product and my first listing was the cake smash template for photographers - SugarPickle Designs is the home of the ORIGINAL Cake Smash template - a template which has now been copied by other template shops out there.
www.etsy.com/ca/listing/126280663/cake-smash-template-story-board-template

After a while I wanted to design other things beside templates and having a graphic design back ground I just let my creativity fly. SugarPickle Design started to have more custom and personalization listings then templates and the photographers who had come to know my shop as a template shop were getting lost in the personalized designs, custom listing and so I opened SugarPickle Templates https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/SugarPickleTemplates that was strictly for photographer templates.

Shortly after I opened my template shop I decided I really wanted to make party printables cause I LOVE overly cute things. So SugarPickle Party https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/SugarPickleParty was started. I am still working on SugarPickle Party as there are so many party ideas out there and it gives me such a creative outlet to just zone out of the chaos of three kids, messy house and busy life and just zone out into my imagination. I thought when I opened this shop that it would be my last shop to open. Only This January I started to get flooded with the idea of editable PDF's. I had downloaded a few free gift tags at Christmas that I was easily able to edit in Adobe Reader and thought what an awesome idea. Instantly download the design you want edit it yourself and send it to print all with in minutes. I knew I had wanted to start designing some pregnancy announcements but so many came to mind I decided instead of adding them to SugarPickle Designs and clogging up this shop I would start a new one again. Only ALL the designs that can be edited are instant downloads customers can do in their own homes and thus Chalkboard Printables by SugarPickle was born March 2015! You can visit that shop ---> https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChalkboardPrintables

I want to thank each and every person who has ever bought something from me from any of my shops. Your purchases make it possible for me to sill be home with my children. It makes it possible for me to be able to volunteer once a week at my sons school, for my kids to be enrolled in swimming lessons, for them to have clothes on their backs and food in their bellies home cooked by me. My designs take up a lot of time to make and customize, so I do work full time at home roughly 10 hours a day Monday to Friday. BUT at least I am at home. I have an awesome mother who watches my 2 younger kids during the day in my house while I sit at the computer and complete your orders. Shopping from small businesses on Etsy makes a big difference to the shop owner behind the scenes and for that we are all grateful you choose to shop here!