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Prissy Poofs Are Dressing Up Imaginative Little Girls Everywhere

examiner.com: Examiner: What is your business all about? Laura: PrissyPoofs.com is all about dressing up Princesses! From Lions to LadyBugs, CowGirls to Kittens and everything in between there is something for the pickiest of little ones and definitely their discriminating Mommies. Deborah: We provide unique, custom one of a kind dress-up tutus for little girls. […]

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Cedar Rapids Entrepreneur's Invention Makes Debut On QVC Today

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The Gazette: Cedar Rapids mom and entrepreneur Suzanne Weston’s WrapItFast makes its debut on the cable home shopping channel QVC at noon today. WrapItFast is a novel gift wrapping paper dispenser. The WrapItFast dispenser has a serrated cutting edge that allows for an easy, straight cut, minimizing the need for scissors. In addition, wrapping paper

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Entrepreneur And East Texas Mom Starts Wholesome, Local Mag For Girls

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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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Buggy's Business Is Kid Stuff

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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 Mom Ready To Enter 'Dragon's Den'

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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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'Shopaholic' Finds Small Business Niche

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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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Mom Creates Business To Help Party Planners

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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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Young Moms Bring Color To Craft Show

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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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Fit Mother Tunes Up Bodies, Souls At Sawgrass

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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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Selling For Babies & Swimming With Sharks

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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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