Entrepreneurial Diva

Rudolph Hair Clips

My 1st Entrepreneurial Diva who I would like to feature is Valerie Kaenel.  She has started a new business for herself, called Baby Shea.  You can find it at www.babyshea.etsy.com.  She makes the most adorable baby blankets, clothes, and hair clips, I have ever seen.  My sister just had twins, a boy and a girl, so I bought 2 of the baby blankets and a set of hair clips.  I even bought a hair clip for myself to wear to my son’s football games.  His colors were purple and white, so I bought a purple butterfly hair clip.  Take a look at some of her items.

I met Valerie about 10 years ago.  She is the sister of my neighbor at the time.  We met and clicked right away.  She is a dentist by trade and a fellow soccer star.  We battled many teams together and she makes my smile pretty.  She is a mom to 2 beautiful little girls.  She and her husband, Preston, own a Dental Practice, Padre Dental in San Diego.  Where she finds the time, I have no idea.

Lady Bug Hair Clip

You can currently find her on ESTY, which is the EBAY equivalent for homemade items.  It is a fantastic resource.  On Sunday November 23, she will have a booth at the Encinitas Street Faire.  I will be there as well to help support her in her endeavor.  Stop on by if you are in the area.

If you would like to contact Baby Shea, leave a comment, I will take care of the rest.

Pink Giraffe Blanket

I discovered my entrepreneurial spirit when I was a stay at home mom about 7 years ago.  It all started when a girlfriend of mine and I went on a trip to San Francisco.  We both were happily married with 2 beautiful kids.  We would try to go away for a weekend twice a year.  This trip, like I said was to San Francisco.  We took a a day trip to go wine tasting in Sonoma, Ca.  As we went from winery to winery, we were noticing the wine charms in all of the gift stores.  We thought that was such a great idea.  (For those of you who do not know what wine charms are, they are decorated rings that you put around the stems of your wine glass so you know which one is yours.).  We came home from that trip and started researching. 

We went from creating wine charms to jewelry.  We started having home parites for our family and friends.  I had a booth at my local town fair, Carlsbad Village Fair.  I also started to go around to local boutique shops for clothing, kids, and wine, selling my jewelry and charms.  It was such a rush when a store woner or manager would place an order.  It was such an accomplishment.

It gave me such a sense of purpose.  Don’t get me wrong, not that being a stay at home mom did not have it’s own extremely imortant purpose.  It gave me an outlet to be creative and to be business minded.  It gave me courage to go out on my own and start something.

This blog is going to be dedicated to women doing the same thing.  I want to help promote women who have the courage to start something new and put themselves out there.  I also want to help women entrepreneurs find information to help them on their journey.  Hopefully we can all help those who follow their dreams, grow them even bigger than they ever imagined.

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.”
- Tommy Lasorda