05/21/2026
I want to make a post that really explains who I am, what matters to me, and what kind of business I’ve tried to build over time.
This post isn’t meant to throw shade at anybody or how they run their business. I truly support other creators and small businesses. I love recommending people, sharing their work, bragging on them, and genuinely seeing others succeed. There’s room for everybody to create differently, and I think that’s a good thing.
Truthfully, I’ve always been more comfortable creating behind the scenes than putting myself in front of a camera or constantly trying to market myself online. I’m naturally more of a hermit than a social media personality, so promoting myself has never come easy to me.
That’s why the support people have shown over time has meant more to me than I could probably explain, especially as someone who struggles putting themselves out there.
A lot of customers come to me with just an idea, a memory, a theme, or a simple description and trust me to bring it to life. That creative process is one of my favorite parts of all of this. The actual work itself is done hands-on from start to finish. Sure if you come to me to recreate something I will. But my heart is creating something from the ground up; just like I have done with UKK and even myself. Everything I make is handmade, designed, edited, pressed, assembled, and completed by me — usually while cooking dinner, helping with homework, running kids to basketball, answering messages, and juggling everyday life right alongside it. This isn’t some giant operation. It’s creativity squeezed in between real life moments
Everything was self-taught through trial and error, experimenting, fixing mistakes, and simply figuring things out along the way. Because of that, I’ll always help others learn too. I don’t believe in gatekeeping information, and I even offer prints like sublimation transfers for people wanting to create their own items as well. This business was built slowly over time. No business loans. No credit cards funding everything behind the scenes. Just saving, reinvesting, upgrading when possible, and growing piece by piece. I also have to give credit to my mom and husband because they’ve stepped in more than once to help with expensive equipment when it was needed, and I’ll always appreciate that support. Keeping products affordable while still using quality materials has always mattered to me. Working from home allows me to keep things personal instead of turning it into some huge production. The only thing outsourced is DTF printing, whether UV or film, and those are charged at cost with no middle-man markup. To me, that’s another way to support other small businesses too. The same goes for selling prints at cost or offering affordable merch for other businesses. I genuinely enjoy helping other people grow and profit too.
Most importantly, I stand behind my work. If something isn’t right, I’ll remake it until it is. My name is attached to every order, and that matters to me.
This was never about being the biggest.
It’s about being personal, creative, affordable, and real. And somehow, through all the chaos of everyday life, this little business became something really special to me.
