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The London Free Press:
Move over Lunchbox Gang, the Bag Ladies have arrived.
Two London sisters and stay-at-home moms are having entrepreneurial success beyond imagination with their new lunch bags.
Kathi Blackwell and Lynn Petcoff have developed the balanced day lunch kits based on the move by school boards across the province to go from one long lunch […]

Times Herald-Record:
I quit my job in the city to be a stay-at-home mom. The mom part was great, but I had a lot of trouble with the stay-at-home part. If I didn’t like any other job, I would have found a new one, and I decided even if my job was taking care of my […]

SFGate:
Heather Armstrong’s blog got her fired. Six years later, it pays her family’s mortgage.
Armstrong, a 33-year-old Salt Lake City mother, is one of thousands of “mommybloggers” who are finding there is money to be made in writing about the traditionally uncompensated work of child rearing.

Armstrong, who has chronicled her life on Dooce.com since 2001 - […]

Desert Dispatch:
When the commissary at Fort Irwin started pushing people to go green and use reusable grocery bags, Genevieve Campbell came up with an idea.

This Fort Irwin mother of two started making custom bags as an alternative to the plain cloth ones sold by the commissary. She opened a store, SweetGroceryBags, online last […]

Sun.Star Baguio:
For those women who need to earn money for sheer survival, often the question of availability of time is irrelevant. Women too from poor families invariably try to find some work or the other.

In these cases, it is seen that household enterprises and micro-enterprise becomes an attractive option, if opportunity is available. The women […]

APP.com:
It was five years ago that Rosemarie Maalouf began working on a concept for a children’s game.
But as the mother of two to go along with a career as a real estate agent, she had little time to focus on developing her idea into more than just a concept.
That is until last year, when she […]

Nashoba Publishing:
Most mothers would not appreciate being called a “hooker” or being greeted with “So, Mom, do you want to dye today?” But there is nothing Eileen Friedrich would rather hear from her daughter, Anita Anderson.
These accomplished rug hookers, along with Anita’s daughter, Kathleen McPartlan, are passionate about their craft. Dedicated to constant improvement, this […]

Zaneville Times Recorder.com:
Lyndsey Bates has created a new business based on giving a unique gift to a mother-to-be - the diaper cakes.
While not the edible kind, diaper cakes provide what any future mom would need. They are created with numerous rolled up diapers wrapped with receiving blankets, onesies and wash clothes, and topped off with […]

thestarpress.com:
A team now in more ways than one, Lydia and Chris run Underwood’s Fine Finishes.
A single mom in between jobs, Lydia (Kaderly) Underwood hardly seemed the type to open a business a few short years ago.

But she did.
“My dad encouraged me,” said Lydia, who subsequently found a partner for her specialty painting business — and […]

East Valley Tribune:
A childhood of homelessness, starvation and illness doesn’t make for stand-up comedy, but Lisa Ann Oliveira has turned her life into a stream of schtick.
It all falls under her new life philosophy: “There are no victims, only volunteers.”
For the past two years, the Scottsdale real estate agent and single mom of four kids […]