Kevlyn Walsh

Founder, CEO

1. Kevlyn was a high-school art teacher, teaching graphic design and digital photography to high school students. As an Art teacher, she was always fostering creativity in her students and encouraging them to act on their ideas. So, to stay creatively inspired herself she started “Festive Gal” as her passion project. Festive Gal quickly took off, and Kevlyn decided to pursue Festive Gal full-time and quit education at the end of the school year in 2019.
2. Kevlyn does all her own graphic design, web-design, and photography for Festive gal. Being trained across multiple creative disciplines is one of her many superpowers. If she doesn’t know how to do something, she is a firm believer there is always a YouTube video that can teach you how!
3. Kevlyn launched into wholesale in 2021 and began attending trade shows to build her customer base. In just 2 years she has grown her stockiest list to over 800 stores in the USA.
4. Kevlyn was a keynote speaker at Ultimate Product Party in 2022 sharing her knowledge about leaning into “best-sellers” and how to be KNOWN for something. She’s the unofficial “queen of crowns” and continues to be KNOWN for her fun and festive products.
5. During the summer of 2022, Kevlyn did 3 back-to-back trade shows 7 months pregnant all by herself, ON HER FEET. She was determined to continue growing her business and knew that sending someone else to represent Festive Gal at the shows just wouldn’t have the same magical effect.
6. Kevlyn is a new mom navigating what it means to run a successful business and take care of a new baby. She’s extremely proud of the fact that she was able to take a 9-week maternity leave in her business in order to heal from pregnancy and spend time with her husband and newborn baby. It took months of planning, delegating, systems, and processes so that she could step away and instead keep the business running with a team.