TuscaloosaNews.com: Martha Pennington, 33, formerly of Tuscaloosa, was a full-time property manager known around the office for her shopping skills. Friends often asked her to shop and wrap gifts for them. When she left her job to be a stay-at-home mom, the requests kept pouring in. She was offered lunch for her trouble. ‘That wasn’t […]
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ContraCostaTimes.com: Her first business venture in the United States ended badly with a surprise visit from the health department. Maricela Gutierrez was selling raspados – flavored ice – from a small table she propped up in a Bay Point grocery. The inspectors snapped photos and threatened fines. “They told me I’m not in Mexico,” she
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NBC4i.com: It’s MarketMommies and it links moms in business with moms who shop. Local mom Toni Bloomfield came up with the idea. “If you have a mom business, you can come on and list your business for free and the goal of the site is to link you with shoppers,“ she said. In just a
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SalemNews.com: In 2007, Heather Roman and Noelle Moreno opened Chulamama, a designer maternity clothing store in Salem. Roman and Moreno, both mothers of two, felt there was very little for the pregnant, fashionable woman who didn’t live in a big city. So they sold Juicy Couture maternity jeans ($188) and lacy nursing bras ($36.98), with
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RocNow.com: The cloth diapers that Heather Holt sells at her new shop on Winton Road are a lot different from the plain white ones she wore as a baby. Safety pins have given way to Velcro or snaps. And this generation of baby bottoms is a lot more stylish. “You might have been able to
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CBC News: A single mother who recently realized her dream of opening a vegetarian restaurant could lose the business after a serious case of the flu. Liz Stanley opened Up the Road restaurant with the help of Momentum, a non-profit agency that helps low-income Calgarians get loans, manage money and start businesses. Opening a restaurant
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Firstcoastnews.com: When Melissa Rolli was laid off last December, she didn’t let it get her down. Instead, the mother of three young boys returned to school, and started her own business. Rolli, a student and mother who lives in Julington Creek, likes to bake and play with her three boys, who range in age from
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If you wanted to rent a game for your playstation or xbox, you never had to look much further than your local rental store. However, if you wanted to rent a game for your child’s v.smile, you were out of luck. That is, until now. Thanks to Jenny Scheidle and Christy Baker, the mom entrepreneurs
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Brainerd Dispatch: Doretta Busbey started creating felted wool handbags as a way to pay for the plane ticket to Ethiopia to pick up the daughter she adopted with her husband. The couple has three adopted children, two daughters and a son, from Ethiopia. It was Busbey’s first trip to Ethiopia. She didn’t know what to
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KFBB.com: For some, decorating and shopping for the holidays is a chore, and for others the Christmas season is time to go all out. But for one Great Falls mom, spreading Christmas cheer pays the bills, through a two day craft show that makes Santa’s operation look like a part time hobby. In this house,
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