“Don’t listen to people when they tell you the newborn stage is the hardest. The newborn stage is the best. They sleep, they cuddle, their little cry is adorable. Toddlers are savages. Toddlers. Do. Not. Care.”

Meet Anna Schaeffer and Hannah Null of Savage Tots Customs. If you are not familiar, Savage Tots creates custom apparel for boys and girls from newborn up to size 6/7, including shorts, joggers, t-shirts, rompers, cardigans and sweatshirts, among others.

Meet Anna Schaeffer and Hannah Null of Savage Tots Customs. If you are not familiar, Savage Tots creates custom apparel for boys and girls from newborn up to size 6/7, including shorts, joggers, t-shirts, rompers, cardigans and sweatshirts, among others.

Savage Tots, based in North Carolina, is a partnership between Schaeffer and her daughter Null. “I love working with my daughter most of the time. We do have our differences, but we balance pretty well. She’s a very hard worker and we couldn’t do this without each other,” Schaeffer shared. The mother-daughter duo began by casually selling shorts and joggers on Facebook and then launched their small shop by April 2018. Since then, the Savage Tots brand has taken off, and the shop has received over 1,000 orders in approximately six months. Schaeffer and Null are skilled seamstresses. Each piece of Savage Tots apparel is handmade with care. “I love making something new or different,” said Schaeffer. Null’s favorite items to make are the Savage Tots signature “shortie and hooded tank sets because summer is my favorite season!”

Savage Tots offers customers an array of different fabrics to customize their garments and many fabrics sell out immediately upon release. Looking for a hard-to-find fabric design? Schaeffer and Null specialize in tracking down elusive prints. One of the most outlandish requests Schaeffer has received was for a pair of joggers made of contrasting camouflage and stripe patterns for each leg. “A customer once wanted a mash up of three different Disney prints in one pair of joggers,” added Null. This just exemplifies the beauty of picking your own fabric designs!

Savage Tots strives to offer custom apparel at competitive prices, ranging from $15 and up. To customize your own Savage Tots fashions for your kiddo, join the VIP Facebook group here. Schaeffer also graciously offered readers a 15% discount by mentioning the code Viningdrop15.

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