Nolan Bushnell, founder of video-game maker Atari and the Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant chain It would be so much fun to let the customers be the artists and design their stuffed animals themselves ...

She first started making stuffed animals as gifts for nieces and nephews in 2012. When her sisters’ friends saw the animals, they’d want one, too. A year later, Bracken opened her Etsy shop and began ...