S. Denise Hoyle | July 29, 2010
Mary Ciske of Dolls by Mary creates these wonderful classic Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls, as well as traditional styles and custom orders. Her handcrafted dolls are available in two sizes – 15″ and 20″, and they are very reasonably priced at between $15 and $30. They’re available with different embroidered faces, skin and hair [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | July 15, 2010
Lauren Darby of Originals by Lauren makes and sells all sorts of gorgeous handmade items in her Etsy shop like these neat Amy Butler Lacework potholders. You’ll also find matching aprons, quilts, reusable lunch bags, table runners, wall hangers and lots more. Lauren has been sewing since her mother taught her how in the sixth [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | July 1, 2010
Badia Bentley is a seamstress and sewing instructor from Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. She started her business, Sewing With Badia, in October 2007 but she says her passion for sewing began in the 6th grade when she learned how to sew, darn and do needlework from her mother and grandmother. After high school Badia’s first job was [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | July 17, 2009
Shelly Leer provides the “best of home ec and shop class with lots of tools and fabric and no cooking” at her Flipt Studio blog. We were impressed with all the re-styles, re-design, and re-purpose projects that she shares, both through her blog and at Curbly.com under the moniker ModHomeEcTeacher, so we asked Shelly for [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | June 26, 2009
Rebecca Yuhasz Smith started her Rebecca Ray Designs handbag business about eleven years ago, but says she feels like an overnight success, even though she’s been working at the business for years. A couple of years ago she says her business made $24,000, but that all changed pretty rapidly when she won the Country Living [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | May 22, 2009
Canadian designer Wendy Floyd launched her online business this month and has already sold 50 swimwear sets. Floyd has had a lifelong love of sewing and after making her own business clothes for years, decided to try her hand at sewing a bathing suit because she had major difficulty in finding one that fit.After working as [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | May 15, 2009
The 9th Semi-Annual Great Cloth Diaper Hunt has begun, and the popular event promotes over 400 cloth diaper business that are run by work at home moms. Diaper Decisions organizes the event twice a year which allows businesses to pay to sponsor the hunt by “hiding” a badge of a cloth diaper like the one [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | May 12, 2009
Bobby Jones, a high school senior ar Greece Athena High School, started his own designer bedding and pillow business last year for a program at school. The Young Entrepreneurs Academy program, or YEA! for short, teaches students how to write business plans and pitch investors so they can create their own job opportunities.Jones’ creations have [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | May 8, 2009
Ouida Davis in Salisbury, North Carolina has carved out her own little niche business by making fancy garter belts and selling them online at her Originals By Ouida website, as well as through her mother Ruby’s formal wear shop. Ouida says her frilly accessories are a growing trend for proms and other occasions and that they’re [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | March 31, 2009
Judy Clark, an obstetrics nurse in Fort Worth, came up with the idea for fashionable clear handbags while she was at work. She’d noticed that clear backpacks and tote bags had become very popular as more hospitals, schools and retail establishments began requiring them for security purposes, but the designs she’d been seeing were far [...]
