How it Started
When I was little, I loved to make crafts. I also loved to be a salesperson and Entrepreneur or at least I tried to be. I would find something easy to make and I would try to sell it to whoever I could sell it to. Of course it was random stuff like bracelets made out of yarn and pocketbooks made out of paper. I tried to sell crafts like that on my front porch whenever we had any type of party. As I got older, my crafts matured as you would expect. I learned how to sew and so I started to make potpourri pockets which was a shaped enclosed pocket filled with potpourri to make bags or closest smell nice. I even opened a little gift shop in my Grandmother's basement selling all sorts of crafts like ornaments, potpourri pockets, pillows, etc. My family would come down to the basement on Sundays to check it out and buy something. That is when I knew I wanted a gift shop. At that time, I just wanted to own a business selling something easy to make because I was not old enough to have a real job. I wanted to get a head start making money. I didn't understand that I actually had to sell something people wanted. I just wanted it to be easy and to sell something that I could easily make.
In High School, I started to form the website. I just threw random products on the website and it wasn't well done because of my lack of understanding of business. I was even selling dog treats but then I realized it would not be a good product to sell online because it would get bad pretty quick. But a lot of dogs liked the treats and if it weren't for the treats getting bad, I think that would have been a great opportunity. I published this website in 2022, my senior year, with the dog treats. But I gave up on the dog treat idea and moved on to jewelry. I taught myself how to make jewelry and thought that jewelry was what I should sell. I started selling jewelry in 2023. My friend Trinity and I started going to vendor fairs with the jewelry in the fall of 2023. 2024, we did more shows in the summer and fall. Gained great experiences through those vendor fairs. But then we thought at the end of 2024 that we were making much and we were not getting anywhere. I learned how to make sugar scrubs during 2024 but didn't sell it much. I only sold it to coworkers at that time who told me they loved it. Then we decided in 2025 that we would switch to sugar scrubs because we realized that there were too many jewelry vendor and not enough room for us in that market. But no one was really selling sugar scrubs at the vendor fairs. We did a bunch of shows in 2025 with them and realized that sugar scrubs is what we wanted to do. We realized we loved to make them and we loved that the customer's loved them. It seemed like a really good product to us. We still are so proud of our product now and of ourselves with our growth in business knowledge.
