My name is Gemma and I am the founder of Syd&Co.  I am an obsessed dog mum and when I am not drawing your dogs you can find me adventuring in the Lake District with my dogs. I love to take them everywhere and make as many memories as I can with them. 

I have always loved to draw. As a little girl I used to create folders of drawings of dogs and horses, even though I never had a dog I used to study all the different dog breeds dreaming of the day I would get one. An earliest memory was actually writing to pedigree chum to get a free dog breed poster so that I could study and day dream more about the dog I would get.

Being creative has always been a way of life for me and in my 20's I did a degree and Masters of Arts in Contemporary Applied Arts.  Syd&Co initially started on my kitchen table where I used to free-machine embroider and make personalised pencil cases for friends and family. I would do this whilst working as Textile Design secondary school teacher.

Working long hours, I would grab every minute of time I could to get my little business going. My personalised gifts became very popular but also physically demanding to make as I made everything from scratch. In 2017 I took a leap of confidence and with the profits I made from my pencil cases I invested in some print equipment. 

Even though we are obsessed with dogs, Syd&Co was named after my beautiful Burmese cat Syd (who was such a feisty character) Sadly he died when he was 7yrs old, but it was when this happened, and I got my dogs that I transformed the business and my mindset and plucked up the courage to leave my job as a teacher.

At Syd&Co we believe in creating gifts and clothing that is personal to your pet that you will want to look after and cherish. All your orders are individually created just for you.  We pride ourselves on our well-made, thoughtful and unique products as well as our one to one customer service.  All our designs are hand drawn by me I and I think this is what makes us stand out from the crowd.