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 [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | March 27, 2009
The Fabric of Life store in Edmonds, Washington opened last fall and is interested in more than just making a profit. Sales from the store go back to the girls who made the fabric in Mali, Africa.These girls live in one of the poorest countries in the world where it is common for young girls [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | March 20, 2009
Kim Ellis-Durity quit a successful career and quit smoking a decade ago to make a change in her life so she became a fitness instructor. On her way to getting fit, at 200 pounds and five feet nine inches tall, Ellis-Durity had trouble finding fashionable, comfortable workout clothes that fit her.She felt ignored and frustrated [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | March 19, 2009
Neal Way was a truck driver for ten years when the ever increasing price of diesel fuel caused him to look for a different line of work. Way says he learned all about sewing and design from his mother, that she drafted her own patterns and made it look so easy that even “a dummy like [...]
