Hump Day Feature: Sweetybird09!

This week's featured designer is Joyce of Sweetybird09! Joyce specializes in  a selection of baby knit items, throw blankets, wool blankets, as well as cotton blanket items, along with acrylic blankets, some baby hats and premature infant items, and a baby sweater or two. 

Here are a few of my favorites from her sweet studio!  Isn't this blanket sweet? It is made using 100% wool. Wool has several advantages. Click here: knit wool blanket for more information on this receiving blanket.

This knit sweater just makes me say, "Awwww!!!" Doesn't it look so soft? Your baby would look precious in this sweater! Click here: knit baby sweater to find out more about it.

Now let's meet the person who makes all these cute and cuddly items!

1. Tell us a little bit about yourself.
My Name is Joyce and I was born and raised in the San Diego area. 50 years later, I am still here. I live in the North County of San Diego. I have been married to my wonderful husband Jack for over 9 years, we just bought our own condo 6 months ago. We live happily here with our cat Diesel. I have some physical issues that make it so I cannot work outside the home, so between church, my water exercises, things I do here and my new found Etsy I am busy.

2. How did you get started with your shop?
Actually that is a funny story, Jack was reading an article in the Readers Digest magazine about a place where you could sell crafts or vintage items called Etsy. So I had some of my baby items in bins just waiting for family and friends to have babies to give them to, so I thought, "Hey, I may just give this Etsy a try." I listed my first item Feb 15, 2010, to date I have sold 14 blankets, and one baby hat.

3. Why do you love what you do?
My Mom taught me to knit in 2003 shortly after the death of my grandma (her mother) and I just took to it. I was giving away blankets, hats, and booties when ever I heard someone was pregnant or just had a baby. It was so satisfying to make and see these baby things get finished. Now that I am knitting for my Etsy store, I love it. I look forward to learning all I can about photographing my items, I love packaging up the items and knowing that they are going to a sweet baby...I even had a customer buy three receiving blankets for a triplets baby shower, how cool was that!

4. Add anything else you'd like us to know about yourself, your shop, or your experiences with Etsy.
I am getting into more natural fibers, mostly at the request of customers here on Etsy. its fun to knit with the wool, cottons, bamboo, and even alpaca yarns,(which by the way sheds). I have learned all about how to blog, and twitter, things I did not do before my shop. I have joined two teams here on Etsy, CAST which is Christian Artists Street Team, and CAPS which is Christian Artists Promoting Shops. The friends I have made and the support I get from these teams is so wonderful, besides the ability to share our faith openly we have prayer lists and really know what is going on with each other. I just had the 100th heart on my shop today,thanks to Denise at seaglassgems4you, and I thank you Trish for this chance to be featured on your blog.

Thank you Joyce for sharing yourself and your beautiful handmade items with us today!!

I hope you enjoyed learning about Joyce and visit her shop soon!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Sweetybird09 

Thanks for stopping by! Love, Joyce!