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| If your job causes a lot of stress, taking up | | | | |
| a hobby thatlets you work with your hands can | | | | Newsletter. It gives insight into Erica's |
| help you wind down. | | | | experiences:from starting a craft company, to |
| | | | the latest laugh-out-loud journeys she and |
| That's why Erica Basile took a class on | | | | her workers share. You will love thehumor and |
| quilting. Aftermaking a quilt for her | | | | the quilting tips! |
| daughter, Erica put all of theleftover | | | | |
| squares into a kit as a gift for a friend. | | | | This is an example of how you can get paid |
| | | | for addingvalue. Erica and her workers add |
| After Erica got married and moved to Boston, | | | | value by designing thequilts, selecting |
| she didn'twant to go back to work, so she | | | | quality fabrics, and providing thequilts in |
| decided to try to sellsome of her quilts on | | | | convenient kits. All this saves work for |
| eBay. Within three months she made | | | | thequilter, who might never even get started |
| | | | enjoying thecraft of quilt making if they had |
| $6,000.00 on eBay. | | | | to go through the wholeprocess themselves. |
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| But Erica found that making quilts from | | | | You can start a Web business based on the |
| scratch was verytime consuming. She thought | | | | principle ofadding value to any craft or |
| it would be easier if quiltscame in a kit | | | | endeavor, for examplecollecting, cooking, |
| with precut fabric squares. When shementioned | | | | sewing, painting, raising pets, woodworking, |
| this to her friends, they thought it was a | | | | and many more. If you don't believe there's |
| goodidea. So did the Small Business | | | | moneyin providing craft kits, click here: |
| Administration, who gaveher a $40,000 loan to | | | | |
| start Easy Quilt Kits, Inc. | | | | After moving to Boston, Erica didn't want to |
| | | | go back tothe stress of working at a regular |
| She created a website to sell her quilt kits, | | | | job. It looks she won'thave to now, since she |
| and withineight weeks it received 61,000 | | | | expects to make $115,000.00 thisyear. |
| visitors. Visit and click on the "Patterns" | | | | |
| menuto see pictures of Erica's quilts. There | | | | Resource Box: |
| are some verybeautiful and boldly colored | | | | |
| quilts, such as the "Tequila | | | | Copyright(C)2002 Bucaro TecHelp. |
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