ABOUT US

HISTORY
Tie Buddies™ was born in January 2007 by inventor and mother of two,
Wendy Welling. As she lay next to her younger daughter, she kept thinking that
there simply had to be a better way to help her children learn to tie their own
shoes!
Inspired by both her daughter’s excitement – and their increased
feelings of independence as they quickly learned to tie their own shoes – Wendy
spent months fiddling with prototypes and ideas until finally perfecting
Tie
Buddies™. The key was to create cool characters and interactive stories
that help the child learn and retain the process and as well as eliminating the
frustrating ‘bunny ears or loops’ that just confuse children as they learn.
Thus in April 2007 this mother of two independent shoe-tying daughters
created her own company, Widget Works, Inc, and launched
Tie Buddies™
into the market.
