Archive for July 17th, 2008

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Mary Beth Karchella-MacCumbee belongs to what she calls “the cloth community” and tries, as much as possible, to live a paperless life.
A skilled seamstress who whips fabric around a sewing machine like a magician doing sleight-of-hand tricks, the Wilkins mother of three turns out cloth diapers, panty liners and bags of all shapes and [...]

Neighborhood Star:
Think you need a six-figure income to hire a personal assistant who’ll do your dirty work?
Mimi Citarella, an Orland Park mom, says folks on a budget can benefit by turning over the task of running errands to somebody else — namely her.
The owner of All Around Concierge, Citarella says she combines the services of [...]

TheAdvertiser.com:
Cloth diapers. It’s a term that makes many new mothers cringe. The idea of dealing with washing and folding dozens of diapers and the risk of stabbing their own fingers while protecting their child’s mid-section from the business end of a safety pin doesn’t appeal to most.
Even those who look for environmentally-friendly ways of doing [...]

commercialappeal.com:
When her laundry room and kitchen would no longer do, the garage of Michelle Day Bicknell’s Southaven home became Grand Central Station.
“Never did get a car in the garage,” she said, “so I thought, well, why not?”
Bicknell, you see, is a businesswoman. For more than two years now, Cajun Decals has been the name of [...]

Although Kati had been painting for years before she had her children, it wasn’t until after she had her child that she quickly found that the art currently available for children wasn’t exactly what she was looking for.
Not only did she create a variety of unique pieces for her children, she has created a business [...]