I knew when I was 8 years old that I wanted to be a designer. I would make bookmarks out of the leftover signage scraps that my mom would bring home from the local grocery store that she worked at. I would laminate them, color them while mixing crayons and markers on top of one another. I even at one point typed a business plan on this made for kids typewriter to open up a strictly custom designed handmade bookmark store.

Fifteen years later when I walked across the stage at my college graduation with my design degree; I thought I'd be some big shot in advertising and be a known highly paid designer. I walked into my first job out of college; it was a good job, salary, benefits. All the things a recent college graduate looks for and I freaken hated it. I hated it so much. I ended up quitting on my year anniversary and never looked back. I had no plan when I quit. No other job to go to. I didn't even know about etsy at that time to even think about starting a shop. I did know that I wanted to make cards and invites I just didn't know how to "get out there". I also never thought I could make a living doing it. If I never would've of quit my highly paid job and taken this random part time job just to get some money in my bank account I would've never had a conversation with a co-worker who told me about etsy.

After telling my then boyfriend now husband about how etsy works I took all those ideas that where building up as I daydreamed at my awful job and put them on paper. I didn't have alot. I had a couple witty things to say, a fondness for typography and contrasting colors. I snapped some sample photos of what I had and I launched littleladycompany in my hot sweaty apartment in August of 2008.