North Carolina — Five years ago, Margot Walser took her annual chutney canning operation to Raleigh to teach her daughter and two friends how to make the 50-year-old family recipe.
The laborious, two-day process of purchasing and cutting up ingredients, washing jars, cooking and bottling the seven-fruit chutney was becoming too much for the 70-something Walser to continue. So daughter Carolyn W. Johnson was the last hope to keep the family tradition alive. Read more...
Starting a business from scratch is a large task, and entrepreneurship requires much courage and perseverance. A new business can face many obstacles and setbacks, which can be discouraging.
However, Pat and Terry Thompson are two entrepreneurs who show it can be done. They own Patterry — hence, the ode to their names — in downtown Wilmington, and their shop has seen great success since its inception.
After working in a large business setting for most of his career, Terry had ideas about opening his own business. Read more...
Sherrill, NY - Opening a gift shop is something that Cory Marsh always wanted to do.
Finally, with the help of her family, she will have that chance as The Olde Gingerbread House Gift Shoppe has its grand opening Oct. 10.
The gift shop, which is located on Route 5 in Sherrill where the Gingerbread House Restaurant formerly operated, has been months in the making. Marsh's husband, Dan, has been busy making improvements to the building and working on shelves for the shop. Her daughter, Brittany, 17, has been helping her set up and will work with her when the shop opens its doors to the public. Read more...
Jill French was just looking for a place to make a present for her grandson when she stumbled on something more - a business plan.
The former South Lyon resident was living in Florida at the time, and visited a combination coffee shop/pottery painting shop to make the gift. She immediately fell in love with the place and asked her son, Chad Ortwine, "Wouldn't something like this be awesome in South Lyon?" He responded with a yes, and French immediately got on the phone to see if she could make it happen.
She eventually connected with Lee Ann Tolinski, owner of the Gallery Cafe, and pitched her idea. Tolinski, who is best friends with French's sister Lynn, thought it would be a great idea, and when French moved back to Michigan in June, planning began. Read more...
Three sisters are seeing their dream turn into a reality as they open their own business.
Denise Arthur, Yvonne Potter and Karen Shaw had always talked of launching a venture – now they are preparing to open Poppies tearoom and gift shop.
The business will open on Monday on the ground floor of the building which formerly traded as Sylvia's pub on South Crescent, Seaham.
The building, one of the oldest in the town, has been transformed by businessman Norman Robinson, who has also created a Thai restaurant. Read more...
Pateros, WA — Kari Dykes, of Riverside, and her mother Nancy Walters, of Omak, dropped into The Homestead last Monday on their way to Wenatchee and browsed through the gift section.
They bought a baby gift and commented about the nice new store.
They were the kind of customers the Stennes family, third- and fourth-generation tree fruit growers, have been catering to since opening the store in June. It’s named for the homestead their grandfather and great-grandfather Britanus Stennes started more than 100 years ago in a bend of the Methow River, three miles northwest of the tiny town of Methow. Read more...
Fayetteville, NC — Want to know what is supposed to bring good luck and money in these troubled economic times?
Lil Tina Carter, owner of The Destiny Jade Gift Boutique, has some suggestions.
Carter and her daughter-in-law, Susan Brown, keep in stock live green bamboo stalks at the gift shop on Brighton Road, off Raeford Road. The lucky bamboo comes in several sizes with branches and leaves, or grouped into arrangements.
“We buy little bamboo shoots and nurture them like a baby,” Carter said. “They are supposed to bring you money; the more leaves, the more money.” Read more...
Lora Morford grew up in the jewelry business.
Her father, Russ Clark, started Clark’s Jewelers in downtown Gig Harbor in 1983. The business moved to its current location in the 1990s and is now celebrating its 25th anniversary.
When Clark retired in 1999, he handed the store to his daughter, to whom he taught the business, inside and out. Read more...
Neosho, Mo. - A lifelong interest in sewing led Donna Sue Hill and her daughter, Robbi Hill Triplett to opening their own quilting store three years ago.
Their shop, Bittersweet Quilts, is located on P Highway and Missouri Highway 86 south of Joplin in northern Newton County. Hill described the shop as a “mom and pop,” only it was a “mom and daughter.” Read more...
The Wilbanks women are the epitome of Southern hospitality, with their welcoming smiles, sweet drawls and warm hugs.
This legacy started with matriarch Willie Pearl Carter, who was murdered during a bank robbery in Lakeland in September 2000.
"One of my mother's main goals in life was to make sure all of her family was together and happy," said Eleanor Wilbanks.
Carter would be proud to know that all of her family are together and in business at Country Gardens Nursery and Eden's Gift Shop, which opened in March of 2003, but soon weathered a natural disaster. Located by Agricenter International and the Farmer's Market, it offers a wholesale and retail nursery, as well as a unique gift shop. Read more...
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