Weekly Spotlight Shop: MyDwarfHamsters!

This week, the For The Love of Small Animals team has chosen a very special shop for the weekly spotlight. The shop is called MyDwarfHamsters and the artist and shop owner is Bryan. Bryan is 11 years old and loves animals. He also loves to build things, play on the computer, and go fishing at the pier. Bryan calls it Catch and Release, because he wants the fish to get back home safely. According to his mom, Sandi, Bryan was interested in following her footsteps and creating something to make extra money. After seeing Dolphin Tales, he also decided to donate some of his money to charity and help other animals in need. As Sandi sends her business cards out as magnets, they thought that taking pictures of Bryan's hamsters, Homer and Henry2, would be perfect to make magnets and Holiday greeting cards. Check out these adorable cards; you can tell that Bryan gives his pets a lot of love and care.

100% donated to PAWS Ch... MyDwarfHamster... $2.00

My Dwarf Hamster Cornuc... MyDwarfHamster... $2.50

My Dwarf Hamster Cornuc... MyDwarfHamster... $12.00

My Dwarf Hamster Cornuc... MyDwarfHamster... $4.00

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

Bryan has just opened his shop this month, and already has had 7 sales and 100% feedback. He has also already donated 11 dollars to PAWS of Chicago. Go Bryan! Currently he has Thanksgiving and Christmas cards and magnets, and plans to add more pictures very soon. You will also see that certain listings notate the amount of donation that will go to PAWS of Chicago. These will make great gifts and stocking stuffers, as well as those much needed cards to send to friends and family over the holidays. Our team is so glad to have Bryan among our members!

I would personally like to thank Bryan's mom, Sandi for telling me about all the hard work Bryan has put into helping others, and also learning to manage money and gaining an overall direction for the future at such a young age. I really wanted to share this story so that other moms out there could see what a great tool Etsy could be in teaching responsibility and a good work ethic to their own youngsters and Sandi agrees. She also donates to Cancer research via her shop JemsBySandi. She lost her mother to cancer, but her closest friend is a breast cancer survivor, so she is doing all she can to raise awareness. Anything pink in her shop goes to the American Cancer Society so please take a look at her shop as well, and her companion shop, Jems and More.