Sarah J. Doyle | January 16, 2010
Winter days can get VERY long for preschoolers and toddlers when it’s so cold, rainy or snowy that they can’t go outside — or can’t stay out very long! “Cabin fever” can set it very quickly! I found a great activity bag tutorial over at ModaBakeShop for kids. Thanks Melissa Ann for providing this tutorial. By [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | January 15, 2010
It’s time for Joann’s annual Own Your Look Prom Contest! The contest runs through June 15, 2010 and has a grand prize of $50,000 cash for college plus a $1,000 Joann gift card, plus 2nd through 10th place prizes. The contest is open to students ages 14-19, and is void in Maryland and Vermont. To [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | January 14, 2010
Lots of people are re-using and re-purposing items these days, and when I saw this sewing machine that had been turned into a scroll saw I just had to share it with our readers. Older sewing machines are typically very well made, however lots of them tend to get thrown out by people who just [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | January 13, 2010
We talk from time to time about the huge market there is for sewing for plus size boys and girls (take a look around and you’ll see how true this is!) However, we rarely mention increasing your services by doing specialty sewing for plus size and full figure women. At the BigBeautifulPeople website you will [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | January 11, 2010
Last week I did a post encouraging people to step “outside the box”, as they say, in order to increase profits by increasing services. This week I have a perfect example of doing just that! Denise, my daughter and business partner, has 4 year old quadruplet “babies” and an older son who is 5 (as many of [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | January 10, 2010
What can you do with those warm flannel pajamas that are absolutely too small, and perhaps worn so much that the knees have holes in them? Just ask Joan at NiniMakes – she has the perfect answer! You make cuddly teddy bears! Aren’t those teddy bears just adorable? And Joan tells you how she made [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | January 9, 2010
More and more new mothers are making the decision to breast feed the newborn baby. Breastfeeding is the healthiest way to feed a child and can be one of the most rewarding experiences you can have as a parent. When my daughter’s first child was born, 13 of the 15 new mothers in the hospital [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | January 8, 2010
Tina Schatzberg had left her career as an advertising sales executive to be a stay-at-home mom, however she still had a passion for marketing and wanted a more flexible means of pursuing that passion. When Schatzberg’s mother lost her job as a sewer for an automotive supplier in Detroit, the two decided to go into [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | January 7, 2010
Janome has two contests currently running that both end on 3/31/10 so there is still plenty of time to enter. Contest #1 – Pass It On The requirements for Janome’s Pass It On contest are to write a story about who taught you to sew and why or about someone you’ve taught to sew, and [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | January 6, 2010
As unemployment continues to skyrocket, every week there are more and more people losing their jobs, reaching the end of unemployment dollars or having their hours cut back so far they can no longer make ends meet. Now is the time to look into starting your own home business. There are many home businesses that [...]
