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About Us.
Shenanigans.INK is the creative sister to The Bumblebee Agency, a care coordination and advocacy studio that helps families navigate systems that were never designed with them in mind.
Where Bumblebee focuses on advocacy, education, and systems-level problem-solving, Shenanigans.Ink is the hands-on workshop — the place where those ideas turn into tangible, printable, shareable tools.
Because sometimes what you need isn’t another meeting or policy.
It’s a form that actually makes sense.
It’s a binder that tells your story clearly.
It’s a workflow that gives you back your time.
We build those tools — planners, trackers, concierge document services, and paper goods that transform the invisible labor of care into something visible, efficient, and even a little bit beautiful.
The bee in our logo connects the two worlds: the relentless worker, the builder of hives, the small creature that makes big systems function through quiet collaboration. Shenanigans.Ink exists for those same kinds of people — caregivers, educators, advocates, and families keeping their worlds together through everyday acts of brilliance.
Our philosophy is simple: complex lives deserve elegant tools.
We design through a disability-justice lens — which means we start from access, not as a retrofit. We treat care work as creative work, and organization as an act of love.
This isn’t stationery for the sake of pretty paper.
It’s survival, systemized — with humor, empathy, and ink.
How I Came to This Work
Hi — I’m Mary Otts, the founder of Shenanigans.INK.
My daughter, Evelyn — “Ev,” or “Goose” if you’ve met us — is funny, fierce, and the light of my life. She also happens to be disabled and medically complex. That part isn’t tragic; it’s just reality. What is tragic is how hard our systems make it to live that reality with ease and dignity.
I didn’t start out wanting to build a business. I started by trying to survive the mountain of administrative labor that came with being Ev’s mom — dozens of intakes, school forms, insurance renewals, and letters of medical necessity, each coming in its own precious and inaccessible format. The caregiving wasn’t what burned me out — the paperwork was.
So I began building systems to make it easier: color-coded spreadsheets, visual trackers, editable forms, fax automations. Slowly, these became less about “getting through the week” and more about giving us our life back. I realized that what I was making — systems that honored care work as real work — could help other families, too.
That’s how Shenanigans.Ink was born: at the intersection of design, disability justice, and survival instinct.
I believe every family deserves tools that work as hard as they do.
That creativity and care are not opposites.
And that humor — the good kind, the “we’re still standing” kind — belongs in every system we build.
Shenanigans.Ink is my love letter to the people doing impossible things every day — parents, caregivers, educators, and disabled folks navigating worlds not built for them.
Because our lives aren’t too complicated; The paperwork is.
And even when those shenanigans in life happen, I’m here to craft and share beautiful and accessible tools made just for you.
Let’s Work Together
Get in touch so we can start working together.