Archive for June 16th, 2008
Mom Solves Son's Fashion Problem With Her Own Online Store
Star-News: Two years ago, Wilmington mom Meg Henson was living a fashion nightmare. The stay-at-home mom wanted her 3-year-old son, Holden, to look hip, but it seemed every store she shopped was full of mediocre boys clothing. Nothing stood out. It was a world of blah, blah, blue. Blah, blah, forest green. Blah, blah, khaki. [...]
Inside Bay Area: Jan Loomis calls herself a hobbyist cake decorator, but she is nothing short of an artist. Instead of using clay and paint, she uses the not-so-pretty-sounding medium of gum paste. Loomis flattens the sugar, tylose powder and egg white mixture and deftly sculpts it into hydrangeas, poppies, roses, lilac, blackberries and peonies. [...]
Moms Find Time To Build Businesses From Home
ScrippsNews: Some moms choose to work full time. Others become full-time moms. Lately, a category in between is gaining popularity, even inspiring a new term: mompreneur. Mompreneurs are women who run their own businesses — usually out of their homes — while juggling the duties of motherhood, said Ellen Parlapiano, who trademarked the term and [...]
Jewelry That Offers The Handmade Touch: Catherine Marissa
It’s a common misconception that you need to go to a jewelry store to find great jewelry. The truth is that you can also find it in the home of everyday crafters. These gorgeous earrings shown here are unique to Catherine Hodge and her own online shop. Based in Michigan, as a work-at-home mom of [...]
Jewelry That Offers The Handmade Touch: Catherine Marissa
It’s a common misconception that you need to go to a jewelry store to find great jewelry. The truth is that you can also find it in the home of everyday crafters. These gorgeous earrings shown here are unique to Catherine Hodge and her own online shop. Based in Michigan, as a work-at-home mom of [...]
7 Things You Must Do To Innovate In Downturn
Lifehack.org: Bill Gates recently said, “We are in an economic downturn but an innovation upturn.” Most people are focusing on the downturn and the dangers it poses rather than on the opportunity for innovation. Most businesses are restructuring and streamlining their operations. 1. Adopt a positive attitude. See the opportunity. Don’t be cynical about change. [...]
Up And Running Blog: The National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship’s latest newsletter has an interesting call to inventors and educators. If you’ve got a good idea for a new product or technology, you might want to check out some interesting grant programs sponsored by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). Funded by the Lemelson [...]
Springwise: For $2,995, consumers can own a Maine lobster trap and all the lobsters it catches for an entire year through the Premium Trap program from Catch a Piece of Maine. As “partners,” as the company calls them, customers of the program are assigned a dedicated lobsterman who will fish their trap throughout the 32-week [...]
We’ll Take Pay Cut To Work At Home
Reuters: More than a third of U.S. technology workers would accept pay cuts of up to 10 percent to work from home and avoid the expense of commuting to the office, according to a survey. In a poll of 1,500 technology workers, 37 percent said they would accept a salary cut if they could work [...]
