KLTV 7: Modern and modest for the east Texas teen, one woman’s pet project will soon hit your local newsstands. Today, KLTV 7’s Layron Livingston sat down with Heather Nielson, a mother and budding magazine mogul who’s hoping to make a difference. Every day she takes care of four boys, and now she’s reaching out […]
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seattlepi.com: The stock market has plummeted and the economy is slipping, but one of Seattle’s newest children’s shops is positioned to survive the economic storm. Last weekend, Buggy celebrated its first anniversary as a retail hybrid, a children’s boutique on Beacon Hill that sells new and gently used clothes — from new T-shirts for urban
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Nanaimo Daily News: A Nanaimo mom is behind what could be the answer to a problem that plagues many heavy-chested women: The breast bounce. An avid runner, the sport became uncomfortable for Carol Clay after the birth of her first child, Madeline, six years ago. Her post-pregnancy breasts painfully bounced when she ran and even
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Business Edge News Magazine: Jody Steinhauer’s small business has come a long way since she started it from her apartment with $1,000 two decades ago. The Bargains Group, a Toronto-based discount clothing wholesaler, sells about 5,000 clothing products to retailers, as well as providing branded promotional items to other small and medium-sized firms and charitable
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STNG: Games and Celebrations.com Inc. is the business Dawn Grelyak started, owns and operates. The mother of four knew she had to work from home when in 2001 she was pink slipped, pregnant with twins and outside child care wasn’t an option. Grelyak’s discovery of having a talent for putting together games for bridal showers
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Lynden Tribune: A children’s boutique will be dropped right into the middle of the Lynden Fall Craft & Antique Show at the Northwest Washington Fairgrounds Thursday through Saturday. A trio of Lynden moms have pooled their talents — and individual businesses — to create the booth Once Upon A Time, fashioned after a small children’s
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tampabay.com: It’s not uncommon for Stephanie Fraze and her clients to brush aside early morning cobwebs, swat deerflies or check out alligators and nesting birds as the women make their way across the sweeping acres of Sawgrass Lake Park. This is Fraze’s primary place of business. She recently launched Get Up Girl, a personal fitness
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globeandmail.com: When Karen Percy started her own web and graphic design company two years ago, she thought she’d found a network of self-employed mothers who, like her, were eager to share business tips and help each other out. So Ms. Percy was flabbergasted when she approached one seemingly helpful fellow mompreneur to do a joint
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STNG: For 25 years, almost up to the day she died, Plainfield seamstress Beverly Pisut owned and operated Beverly’s Interiors, where she designed, sewed and sold her custom draperies and home accessories. The business was successful, said Beverly’s husband Stephen Pisut, and not just because her clients received beautiful window treatments. “She was loving and
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newsdurhamregion.com: While Alexandria Durrell works, her three-year-old daughter Story isn’t in daycare or at a babysitter’s. She is playing in the same room. Ms. Durrell is one of many small business owners who is a work-from-home mom. In 2000, about 50 per cent of the self-employed did some or all of their work from home,
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