Journey Of Creative PuppetZ

What started as a home project to keep myself busy during my early parenting days has gradually grown. I have been learning and unlearning a lot through this entrepreneurial journey of designing children’s toys and managing a remote team of women working miles away in different time zones.

As an Engineer with software experience in Manufacturing, Education, Payments, and Retail domains as a Web Developer and Business Analyst, I explored the craft medium (self-taught) during my leisure time. Transforming into a first-time mom with a busy schedule, crafting quiet books became my ‘ME’ time.

Upskilling as a seamstress, I started to learn and understand the art of designing cloth activities and made a few cloth books (quiet books) for my daughter. While designing these books, I started reading about the importance of interactive play, fine motor skills, sensory play, and more, which led to the launch of the brand Creative PuppetZ. As the brand grew gradually, I honed my skills in content creation, leading to the creation of my parenting-play-based blog, Journalsofmomma. A space filled with children’s book recommendations, toys, my parenting learnings, DIY activities designed for and with my daughter, and more.

During this phase, I worked on writing crafts and attended creative writing workshops under the guidance of Shwetha Ganesh Kumar, an UN Media Award winner, who helped me polish my writing skills. Through a workshop under Inkspire Press, I became a published author, with my fictional piece ‘Phoenix’ included among 22 authors in an anthology entitled Kaleidoscope.