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Sacred Ceremonial Wear: ‘Clothes to go see God in’ – Taos News
A major help in this was beginning to practice Lakota spirituality about five years ago, and it’s also now cleared the path for her business sewing Lakota ceremonial clothing. “I prayed about doing something that was more in line with my spiritual path

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Savannah Grandmother Sees Her Hobby Grow Into an Online Business – Savannah Morning News
Arlene Ferrino’s love of sewing began in childhood. “My grandmother was my teacher,” she recalls of the Italian immigrant who made her living as a seamstress in New York’s garment district. “I remember sitting by her side, watching with wide-eyed

Area woman sewing again after tornado destroys her home – Gadsden Times
By the time she was a teenager, she was making her own clothes. Smith opened her sewing business a few years later and never slowed down. But her life was turned upside down on April 27, and she soon discovered many challenges were ahead of her.

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Janet’s Chili Peppers in Wilmer makes glamorous gowns and more – Everything Alabama Blog
For Hollinghead’s business, the couple purchased property that contained that she has worked with a broken wrist for about four weeks and she hasn’t stopped sewing,” Hollinghead said. The two Wilmer residents not only bond over sewing, but

Dad still makes SHeDaisy girls do the dishes – Deseret News
Through the years, the one constant for the Osborns has been the sewing business that his father opened the year Dave was born. At first, the original Osborns sewed for companies such as Pendleton, Eddie Bauer and White Stag, but when cheap overseas labor

Her sewing business was launched a year after the birth of her second child, daughter Ruth, 3. Hometown : Born in Rome, Ga., now lives in Rossville. Education : Bachelor of Science in family and child development from Auburn University, and a master’s Read the article

Dolls By Mary

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 colors, and all of the dolls’ clothing is also handmade of crisp cotton fabric.  My favorite thing is that they all have the traditional heart embroidered on their chests, just like the pair my mother made for me as a child.

Mary learned to sew from her mother when she was about 7 years old and she enjoys using those skills to make some extra cash.  She takes orders for dolls on her Dolls by Mary website and she travels to nearby craft shows to display the dolls that creates at home in ”a terrific sewing room.”  The independence to make what she wants and work when she wants to are the best part of self employment for Mary, but she tells us her least favorite part is the unpredictable income.  She wants to “keep the business small enough that I can handle it alone but large enough to make a little bit of extra $$” and says she’ll “continue making the dolls as long as doing so makes me happy and brings me some income.”

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