My sister in law recently started her own small business in San Diego. She majored in interior design in college and she is very artistic. Since she got married last year she has thought about running her own paper crafting business for a while. After a fairly long period of research and planning she is finally open for business! She named her business Scraps of Life and she is selling crafting supplies, hand crafted cards, and pre-assembled scrapbook pages. She also made a pretty neat shadow box for me and the hubby so I think she could sell those, too. She is still working on getting her online shops at Etsy and Artfire set up but she already made a lot of great progress on her current websites and her StampinUp online shop looks really great. She also has samples of her work on her blog and I think her designs are all pretty cute.
Some good articles from her blog about her journey include:
Getting down to business – This describes her checklist for starting her business
That much closer… – This describes how she got her business license.
I think it is really awesome that she is able to do something she loves to do and her hubby is pretty supportive. I thought it was pretty courageous of her to quit her fairly uninspiring job in this economy, too. I am sure that she will learn a lot more through this process of starting her own business and her success will depend on how much work she puts into it. The coolest thing about is that it will be her enterprise from the beginning.
Anyway, I hope that she gets lots of clients and buyers in the future and I am looking forward to see her new designs. Good luck Scraps of Life!
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