About Alicia

Hi, My name is Alicia & I run and own Twyzted Breedz. I opened my shop at the end of Feb. I started out making collars and leashes. I quickly expanded to making Service Dog vests and capes. I also make bandanas, scrunchies, pillows, & blankets. And customize back packs,  shirts & hoodies. I also make stickers with the help of my friend Beetle.

A little bit about me. 

my name is Alicia I am 42 years old, I was born and raised in Jersey.  I have 2 adult children 23 & 21. I have multiple mental illnesses, and chronic illnesses. I have lived all over my state, and even lived in Greenville South Carolina, where I worked in a gas station and TJ maxx, and did flea markets on the weekends with my husband and father in law where I sold tie dye shirts, twisted and dyed by me. You will see some tie dyes here. I used to write and paint when I was younger, I have actually been published in a few poetry books. :), I’m rekindling my passion for writing with the blog posts you will find on our site. Our first blog “Origin of the Candy Dragons” is a companion mini series to the Candy Dragon Sticker Series we have in the works that will be released in November. The story will focus on the origins of the dragons and their adventures with their Ambassadors, so go on over and check it out. I will try to update it once a week with more to the origin story and one adventure a week featuring a dragon and its ambassador. I’d love to hear what yall think of it, remember it’s rough and will be edited and added on to a lot. I’ve been an animal lover all my life and I don’t think I’ve ever went more the. 6?months without some kind of pet. When I was a kid my dad bred and raised guppies,for our local pet store. We also had an entire family of hamsters at one point 8 babies and the parents, separated by gender. I’ve always had cats, at one point I had red bellied newts, my brothers girlfriend at the time gave them to him and he didn’t like them , so he gave them to me. If you haven’t had the experience of owning one I recommend, I’m not sure if you can get them any more but they are easy to keep,  and fricken adorable. I’ve also owned leopard geckos, regular frogs, a tree frog. I’ve also owned multiple fish tanks with gold fish , fancy goldfish, bettas, catfish, algae eaters, African fighting fish, bettas guppies and more. My dad sparked my love of fish tanks, and I plan on having a big 40-50 gallon tank one day. :). I’ve owned over 30 dogs since I was a teenager, I’ve welped two of my own litters and helped welp Nyms litter(the one she was born from). Currently I have 5 pets , 2 dogs and 3 cats. Chance is my almost 11 yr old American Bully , who is also my retired service dog who I’ve had since he was 9 weeks old. Nymeria (Nym) is my 2 yr old Corgi and is also my multipurpose Service dog who I helped whelp and raise till she came home. Versa is my 10 year crotchety old b**h kitty who I got off Craigslist when she was 8 weeks old for my 5th wedding anniversary hence her name. :). Sukie & her brother Phish are my 4 month old kittens that I got off of Craigslist. Sukie came home two weeks ago, and we are waiting for Phish to be neutered before he comes home, so hopefully in the next week or so. I started Twyzted Breedz back in February cause I received some gear that wasn’t up to par, and I thought 💭 “ I could do this , it doesn’t look that hard” so I went to Walmart bought some fabric a little hand held sewing machine, ordered webbing and clips and glides, and when I got everything I started making Nym a vest. Half way through my machine stopped working so I finished it by hand. My fingers and hands were sore for days afterwards lol. But it was worth it cause imo it was better then what I got in the mail.  I showed my friends what I made and people asked me to make them collars, I watched a YouTube video, and realized it didn’t look so hard, lol. So my husband bought me a sewing machine . I made my friend a collar and leash for his dog, which she still wears. I showed more people and those people wanted collars and leashes, thus Twyzted Breedz was born from my other small business Twyzted Raynebowz. I started out with a FB page , and word of mouth , then we grew to IG and TikTok. A few months ago I opened an Etsy store, which has only had 1 sale since we opened. :(. I opened this site because Etsy decided that my service dog vest promoted illegal activity? I don’t see how but it’s whatever. It seems that I advance myself when someone F**ks me over. lol. But here we are today, I have awesome brand ambassadors who have been with me since the beginning, an awesome client base (that’s you guys), a talented artist who has opened up a new world for twyzted breedz. Beetle is an amazing talented artist who I have had the pleasure of working with for the past few weeks. She started off as a a person I traded services with, but quickly became a friend and is now our main artist for our stickers and some graphics for our custom vests. Go check her stuff out on her page Art by Beetle!! 🪲. Other than working full time for a gas station and Twyzted Breedz my life is pretty boring, lol 😂. I go to work I go home I work I eat and sleep, that’s it. Lol. If you made it this far god bless you and ty! TY for taking the time to read this and for visiting my website, have a look around, and I hope you find something you like or I can make you something that you’d like. :)