Archive for March, 2008

KCCommunityNews:
Raytown resident Inge Howard has always wanted to own a business.
Her dream came true when she purchased City Grounds Coffee Shop, at 6200 Raytown Trafficway, Feb. 26.
“My first job I ever had worked at was McDonald’s,” Howard said. “I always thought I needed my own franchise. It was always so expensive. When I found out […]

Newsday.com:
As a stay-at-home mom living in Garden City with two babies, Vera Sweeney needed an outlet, a place to pour her creative energy, a place to indulge her obsession with celebrity gossip.
She might’ve been perfectly satisfied reading about Britney and Paris and Lindsay and BCBG and fitted jeans on somebody’s Web site.
Instead, she created her […]

Katie Richardson is not the average mom. Having met her husband in college, Katie and Ben are both designers. When they decided they wanted to have children it was Katie that decided that she wanted to stay home to raise her kids. She didn’t let that stop her from designing still. […]

Having opened shop in October of 2003, Heather has seen her online store grow by leaps and bounds. Going from a small cash investment to having a more than enough product for visitors to her boutique to choose from goes to show the success she has had in the past 4+ years. Heather also makes […]

Having a special needs child opened up Alycia Shapiro’s eyes to how hard it was to find exactly what she wanted.
When Alycia’s child was born she had no idea what to get for toys. So she commonly just got what looked good. It wasn’t until he got a little older that they found […]

Winona Daily News:
Tina Darr believes in saving the environment one cloth diaper at a time. Well, actually two cloth diapers at a time for the mother of 13-month-old twins.
“There has been a cloth diaper revolution,” she said. “Cloth diapers are not like they used to be.”
Like breastfeeding, glass bottle usage and organic baby foods, an […]

The Natchez Democrat:
A mother-daughter duo are keeping it all in the family with their new restaurant Ve’Gyarne Pasta Garden.
“It’s 99.9 percent family owned and operated,” manager Vickie Green said.
This quaint Italian restaurant on Martin Luther King Jr. Street, with its dim lighting, strings of white lights, bubbling fountains and reservation-only nooks, has been packed since […]

Tallahassee Democrat:
Lori Danello Roberts cherishes being a work-at-home mother “because I see everywhere a battle between working moms and stay-at-home moms, and I get to be in the middle of that and couldn’t be more thrilled.”
At FSU she refined her graphic arts skills, but she grew impatient with theory and wanted to set her hands […]

Contra Costa Times:
When Alicia Shaffer’s son Campbell was born in 2004, she was thrilled with the baby, but less than pleased with the alternatives for carrying the infant around. So the Pleasanton mom designed a baby sling, and before she knew it, a business was born.
Shaffer designed her own sling because she didn’t like the […]

Maryland Community Newspapers Online:
It all started when Jamie Freishtat and Rachel Schreiber realized that they were becoming the go-to moms for friends in search of health advice for their kids.
The two women, both mothers of two young sons and doctors who first met in medical school, said they often found themselves giving quick tips to […]