Sitting on the cream carpet of her Lee Street home, just a stone’s throw from the Brookline Reservoir, Megan Woods doesn’t look like the kind of mom who spends her afternoons sifting through ugly sweaters in the back of a thrift store.
But Woods has become [...]
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 [...]
In a world where many people look forward to retiring someday, there are innovative women like Laurie Cohen that do things a little different.
Not only did she leave retirement behind to help a company rebrand itself but she has since slipped into a new role as an [...]
In 1990 Mark Arimura lost his mother to ovarian cancer. In 1994, Mia Arimura lost her mother to colon cancer.
Today in San Clemente, the Arimuras and their four daughters have just opened Possibilities Boutique, dedicated to the two moms and to a charity [...]
Based on their combined decor and business administrative expertise, a mother and daughter team has established a Christmas decor store just in time for season.
Called Dash Away Dash Away, it is situated in the Marco Town Center next to Obsession women’s boutique.
Heather Dill and [...]
Before you anyone can start their own business, they have to want it bad enough to work for it. That is exactly what Mary Shelton has learned as she works to get her new business off the ground.
Since launching ComfortersandMore.com in June, Mary has worked hard [...]
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.
Attention, small-business owners: it’s not too late to make some smart moves and slash your business’ 2009 taxes. To start with, some soon-to-expire tax breaks are too good to ignore if your operation is healthy enough to need and be able to pay [...]
When Bill Gates’s children become adults, they’ll probably launch their own businesses.
And not just because of their father’s example. Entrepreneurial tendencies — including the ability to recognize business opportunities — are heavily influenced by genetic factors, according to a study co-directed by Scott Shane, a [...]
About two years ago, David Jurus had what inventors call a flash of genius. The 73-year-old Oak Forest resident, who volunteers at a hospital, saw a patient he had befriended suffering terrible pain because of a common ailment – bedsores.
So Jurus, who does home remodeling [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When it came to divvying up baking duties in the family business, Putch & Buckie’s Baked Goods, Buckie always made the anise biscotti.
The mother-daughter team of Dolores Sides, aka Buckie, and Sara Goulet, aka Putch, started their home-based Hershey business in 2003, using the family’s [...]
When Jodie A. McCaffrey, 32, takes her 15-month-old daughter, Abigail, to a restaurant, there is no question about what Abigail would like to drink or eat.
That’s because McCaffrey has taught Abigail to communicate with her by using baby sign language.
The process isn’t all that unusual. A [...]
As nice as it would be to visit the gym daily, that is one routine that doesn’t always fit into the average day. For some it is simply a lack of time, for others it is a lack of money. Either way, it is still important to [...]
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 [...]
Parents who want to feed their babies a nutritious food, sourced from farms within 300 miles of Washington and Benton counties, can buy Oh Baby! food in local stores.
Mother and business owner Fran Free Gunsaulis displayed the baby food, which she cooked in her own [...]
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 [...]
Whitney Zimet, a busy Miami mom, has figured out a way to build her small business during all hours. She mingles with other moms, hoping to cajole them into giving her their e-mail addresses. Then, she adds the coveted address to the distribution list for her e-newsletter, I [...]
When mom coach Lori Radun spoke to the Mothers of Preschoolers group in Aurora recently, she talked about the eight essential ingredients of having a “momnificent” life.
“While she was going over them, in the room you could hear the oohs and ahs,” recalled MOPS member [...]
Now that we’ve entered December, parents are starting to break out their children’s coats for another winter— if they haven’t already. With the coats comes the extra essentials, hats and gloves. For some lucky kids, this means they get to wear their favorite animal on their head.
If you want to find Chris Llewellyn, your best bet — most days — is to knock on her garage door. That’s where the Orangeville resident spends much of her time creating rustic home décor items for a national distributor.
“As anyone who has a [...]
The Elderberry Tea Room is in familiar hands. The owner of the property, Pat Mannino, is running the business with her daughter Jennifer Davenport.
“It still looks wonderful after all these years. The house is just as beautiful as it ever was. We are excited [...]
Moms, some recently downsized, are finding niches in all kinds of unique areas. I met Joan Alini, a laid-off school teacher who sells aprons packaged in pie boxes. Crazy? You may think so, but she’s found her target audience in schoolteacher friends — and [...]
Like many great mom entrepreneurs before her, Michelle Brandriss’ business began out of frustration. She was looking for a customizable kids label that would fit her specific needs and found herself unsatisfied with the options available. Instead of settling for something that didn’t quite fit what she [...]
If you have a child in daycare or in school then you know what it is like to label everything, from cups to clothing, that leaves the house. Traditionally that would mean the use of a permanent marker but now that is no longer necessary. Innovative parents, [...]
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Carlsbad housewife-turned-entrepreneur Stacey Ross has taken the informality of a neighborhood mothers group to the Internet to build a thriving new business.
Her enterprise, sandiegobargainmama.com, offers up a plethora of local bargains, discounts and handy tips, all targeting the market for nonworking [...]
Glendale mom Laurie Lupinetti opened Young Chef’s Academy in 2005 so she would be home more with her daughter Sarah, then 6 months old.
It was an opportunity for Lupinetti to blend her love of cooking and love of children while fulfilling the dream to own [...]
If you’ve ever been out while pushing a baby in a stroller, then you probably know what it is like to try and help them fall to sleep or stay asleep. While you could always drape a coat or blanket over the stroller to help keep the [...]
Move over Chad Ochocinco. There’s a new iPhone sheriff in town – a stay-at-home mom of six who has taught herself how to program applications herself.
Now, Crysta Pleatman has successfully launched eight applications for Apple’s and AT&T’s popular device, with more on the way.
“This was just [...]
Christy Baker, a stay-at-home mom, liked the idea of buying educational games for her children, but found they were expensive and the children lost interest in them after a while.
She did some research to see if there was anyone who rented games for systems such as [...]
Tinika Amison realizes that if she is going to help people, the first step must literally be her own.
The 33-year-old single mom of three children who lives in Naperville launched a new mobile nail spa business earlier this year known as Angel Feet. It’s an [...]
Like countless new mothers, Robyn Collar found two hands weren’t enough. With an infant girl, Kayli, and a newborn son, Talen, Collar found herself more than 100 percent occupied.
“I couldn’t change my daughter’s diapers because my son wouldn’t let me set him down without [...]
Joshua Duce loves the Florida Gators, Spider-man, and Spongebob Squarepants.
Like many 6-year-old boys, he’s a happy kid, playing and laughing with a Wii controller in his hand.
Sometimes the active boy just stops cold. He has drop seizures and they happen more than 20 times a day. [...]
Only in tea can you find a drink for nearly any mood. There is a tea you can drink at bed time to help you sleep, there is one for when you get up in the morning and need a boost. In some countries a cup of [...]
Stephanie Rolle’s mother, Betty, started baking her special oatmeal cookies with raisins last fall.
“People just fell in love with them,” said Rolle, who recently opened Savannah’s Gourmet Cookies, Treats and Gifts in the Crowne Plaza hotel.
Then people asked, “Can you be the concession [...]
The wedding day is a special moment in any couples life and it is one that can be quite costly. Put that together with the millions of people that are getting married each year and that makes this a very profitable industry to be in.
This is something [...]
They fix lunch, shepherd the kids to swim lessons, do the laundry and somehow find the time to create businesses. They’re Mompreneurs, entrepreneurial moms who walk the tightrope between family and business, looking after the kids and the bottom line at the same time.
Maybe it’s the [...]
In the fall of 2004 a young mother in Sac City took the entrepreneurial plunge, turning her home bread and baking passion to a business, with a location just off U.S. Highway 20 and an ambitious marketing and sales schedule.
Amanda Lynch, 32, a Sac [...]
When that idea hits for the perfect invention some people might ignore it. However, an inventor will do something about it. To go from idea to final product takes a lot of work and a solid design.
Bret Schaller, the founder of Schaller Industries, Inc and co-founder [...]
An old family recipe launched a successful home-based business for Donna Gabrilson a few years ago.
Now Gabrilson and her daughter and business partner, Stacey Barnes, have embraced a new brand to grow their Scottsdale-based GoodyTwos Toffee Company.
In 2004, the newly divorced Gabrilson wanted to [...]
Shirley Broback, 34, was awarded the SavvyMom Mom Entrepreneur of the Year Award for her work as producer of the Vancouver Island Baby Fair and says her win proves that self-described regular women like her can make a big difference with big dreams and big effort.
“It [...]
If you are creative and have a keen eye for design and patterns, you might also feel that the idea of starting an interior design business is a favorable one. While the passion might be there, it takes knowledge and skill to really get a business going. [...]
