Yesterday we presented a photograph of a gold medal winning product design at the 2010 International Design Excellence Awards. But we couldn’t figure out what it was. It looked like a flower vase or a wine caraf and was called OneDown. Just one reader, Sharon B. guessed that OneDown is a humane rat trap. (I […]
When some people want to get a message across using crafts they might try needle point. Others might consider picking up an artist’s brush and painting a portrait. Then there is the founder of Tekst-doeken, Brigitte Wolfhagen. She brings words to life using a little creativity, a few special words and some canvas or linen.
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NewsChief.com: Today’s mother is more than a cookie baker and a boo boo doctor. Today’s moms are college professors, bank presidents and business owners. Connie Combs of Dundee is one of them. As a full-time mom and business owner, she’s in charge and in heels at her Winter Haven business, Metal Momma’s, a custom design,
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The Christian faith holds several acts of “super-sizing” to be miracles accomplished by Jesus Christ — a handful of fish and loaves of bread expanded to feed thousands; a wedding feast running low on wine suddenly awash in the stuff. The Los Angeles Times reports a new study of portion expansion puts Jesus once more
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Anthony Ghattas has the life that many dream about; great wine, beautiful art, and friends in high places, reports The Sydney Morning Herald. In only six years, this serial entrepreneur has managed to build up a successful lifestyle brand United Lifestyle Group – including two galleries in Perth and Sydney and a burgeoning wine group
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At first it might seem that clothing would have nothing in common with a painting business but that’s not entirely true. For Sandra Schulze there is a lot more behind those businesses than meets the eye. Inspired by the photo of her friends’ daughter, Sandra went to work on what would become her first mixed
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Mlive.com: Shelly Klein is a wisp of a woman with a little fluff of a dog but her ideas are huge. “I’m just about to make some pillows,” she says, as Sugar frolics around her Northeast Grand Rapids studio. Her commercial embroidery machine whirs as Klein explains the designs on her pillows that have caught
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canada.com: Desneige Meyer is a woman who takes her art very seriously. So when the talented sculptor gave birth to son Beckett last year, she did what any proud artist would do; she started incorporating him in to her work. Meyer comes from a family of women involved in art. Her mother is a clothing
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Inquirer.net: A Bacoloña artist has turned to the Internet to sell her art, in the process discovering that she could be a stay-at-home mom and still have a lucrative career. Alpha Trinidad-Shanahan, 45, who recently held a one-woman show in Bacolod City, is now based in Brunei with her husband Philip Shanahan with whom she
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