I grew up watching my mum sew curtains on our dining table and later took fabric‑shop trips with her. That led me to study clothing design at the London College of Fashion and to work in both menswear and womenswear. Years later, I began sewing curtains for my wife, then for friends, and eventually for clients and businesses in San Francisco. When COVID hit, work stopped and income disappeared. My 9‑year‑old daughter kept pitching an invention and asked me to help sell it on Etsy. She sold a few doll‑bed phone chargers we made, and that gave me the idea to sell curtains on Etsy. I now have an online store to custom‑make every order and serve many more customers across the US. If not for my daughter and Etsy, I don’t know how we’d have made it through COVID.