Running a Small Business

November 14, 2016 13

Three years ago this week, as I was preparing for Toronto’s One of a Kind Show, I wrote my most popular [...]

January 21, 2014 4

The heading for a Toronto Star article about my mother. I still remember how excited I was to miss school for [...]

November 19, 2013 10

As I prepare for the opening of the One of a Kind Show & Sale*, which begins next week in Toronto, I’m [...]

July 5, 2013 2

Thankfully, there are no actual tornadoes in this story. Have you heard the one about the torrential downpour [...]

March 22, 2011 3

When I was a child, my mother had a thriving small business designing hand-painted silk scarves. When she was [...]

February 23, 2011 0

I have to be honest – I hate the word mompreneur. It takes my identity as a designer and small business [...]

February 20, 2011 0

I sewed up a storm last week putting the finishing touches on my Fall 2011 Collection, which is now being [...]

July 29, 2010 1

You drive toward a big park on a hot summer day, anticipating a great afternoon. The first thing you spot is [...]

October 19, 2009 0

to the busiest month of my year. With the One of a Kind Show only a month away and fall/winter production in [...]