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Alison Ruth Designs
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Alison Ellett |
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| www.alisonruth.ca | ||
| Title: | Textile Artist | |
| Mission: | To make getting dressed fun. | |
| Biography: | Alison has always been comfortable with needle and thread. Growing up, she was not allowed to watch TV unless they were doing something else at the same time. Knitting, sewing, embroidery in all its forms were just the things you did. You wore hand-knit sweaters and you made your party dress. Everyone made the art that decorated their home. It all just grew from there. Alison has been sewing, knitting, embroidering and generally messing about with fabric and thread for over 35 years now. She has taught embroidery techniques and accepted private commissions, generally to supplement her day job and to fund buying more supplies.Highlights include embroidery demonstrations at the Creative Sewing Festival, having her designs | |
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published in Style at Home, and seeing good friends light up when they put on the wedding dress she created just for them. In the fall of 2008, Alison decided to throw caution to the wind, leave the corporate world and pursue these creative endeavours full-time. Alison is much happier, on the whole calmer, and frankly more fun to be around. | |
| Years in Business: | First paid commission 1993, full-time in this location since 2008. | |
| Ideal Client: | Woman who expects quality, fit and comfort from her clothing, is looking to collaborate with a designer, who wants to look and feel good in her clothes all day and who is willing to pay a fair price for custom clothing and accessories. | |
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Service, Product: | Bespoke clothing, wardrobe makeovers, clothing remodelling, limited edition accessories. |
| Achievements, Awards: | Embroidered tea towels featured in Style at Home, commissioned to recreate Belle's apron by Toronto production of Beauty and the Beast, first Etsy sale to Courtney Love Cobain. | |
| Future Goals: | To grow Alison Ruth Designs into a sustainable business. | |
Avon
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Yvonne Hickin |
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| www.avon.ca | ||
| Title: | Sales Representative | |
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| Biography: | With 26 years of customer service in fine dining and special events, Yvonne's developed an ability to see a person's inner beauty and help them draw that to reflect in their outer beauty. She offers through the internationally successful and trusted brand of Avon, tools to enhance one's beauty through skin care, makeup, frangrance and even the home fashions. |
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| Certification: | Special Events Management | |
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| Ideal Client: | Women and men of all ages. | |
Here to enhance your Beauty! |
Service, Product: | Skin care, makeup, fragrance, fashion, home decor. |
| Voluntary Efforts: | Big Brothers, Big Sisters | |
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Bliss Boutique
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Sharon Rollins |
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| www.freewebs.com/blissboutique | ||
| Title: | Sales | |
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Cooper's Travel Centre
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Micheline Dion |
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| www.destination-Wedding-Travel-Angels.ca | ||
| Title: | Travel Agent | |
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The Journey to Success
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Constance Zacharias |
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| www.thejourneytosuccess.com | ||
| Title: | Comprehensive Life Coach | |
| Mission: | To coach small business owners and entrepreneurs find balance and success in their work and life. Empowering them to live an extraordinary life. | |
| Biography: | Constance is the Founder of ‘The Journey To Success’ coaching. She draws her experiences from counseling, youth pastoring, facilitating, teaching and training youth and children. Her career background includes experience in accounting, customer service, administration, and as a business owner. “I grew up in a family environment that was less than ideal, and as such caused me to search for a better way of living life. Despite the challenges I faced I was eager to prove I was capable of much more than my family believed.” |
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Constance cites numerous influences such as Earl Nightingale, Jim Rohn, and Denis Waitley. She credits their writings, as well as others, with helping her to further the change in her life and overall mindset. As a business owner she found herself thrust into a completely new arena. Nevertheless she persevered through the challenges she faced in what was a brand new field for her. She would later describe the experience as one of the greatest and toughest lessons in life she had ever learned. Family responsibilities have always been foremost on Constance’s list of priorities, and she has in recent years focused on this area of life while pursuing her passion for coaching others. She feels now that all her life experiences have led up to her becoming a Comprehensive Certified Coach. She believes strongly that we are all created to have a special place on earth and are given special talents and gifts to better the lives of others. It is in finding that meaning that one can live to his or her full potential and find satisfaction in life. Her personal and conversational style set people at ease. Her approach is non-judgmental, non-threatening, and appeals to a variety of individuals seeking for deeper meaning in their lives. | |
| Certification: | Certified Comprehensive Coach | |
| Years in Business: | Since January 2009 | |
| Ideal Client: | Small business owners, Entrepreneurs, who are willing to invest in themselves and see the value of coaching. Those who are willing to move from where they are at to where they want to be. | |
Here to help YOU succeed! |
Service, Product: | Coaching, group coaching, retreat, workshop and ebooks. |
| Voluntary Efforts: | Mentor for WEMIN, Church mnistries | |
| Awards: | Award of Excellence in Business and Technology DSBN | |
| Future Goals: | To be teaching, training and coaching people to find their authentic self, their calling, living extraordinary lives. | |
JSJ Insurance and Financial Group
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Jennifer Wallace |
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| www.jsjgroup.com | ||
| Title: | Financial Coaching | |
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Le Beadoir
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Julie Harper |
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| www.lebeadoir.com | ||
| Title: | Custom Jeweler | |
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Nicole Arnt Photography and Design
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Nicole Arnt |
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| www.nicolearnt.com | ||
| Title: | Digital Artist / Photographer | |
| Mission: | To see and capture the beauty that is in everyone and everything and let the image tell the story. | |
| Biography: | Nicole was born in Germany and immigrated to Canada almost 15 years ago. Her cultural diversity enables her to relate and work well with a wide variety of people. She is inspired by people's personal stories, and strives to capture the essence of who they are through the camera lens or a combination of video and photographic images. Photoshop and other digital editing programs have opened up boundless creative opportunities that she likes to use and explore. She regularly updates her skills and works as a Freelance Photographer for the St. Catharines Standard and a Photoshop Elements Instructor with the DSBN's Continuing Education Department. | |
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A new creative strand might open up for her in the educational arena in the future. Her desire is to teach Elementary School students through classroom workshops how to use media to express their ideas and creativity. The pilot project in this area was well received. Her background in publishing and business administration has allowed her to work for various media outlets, customer service and marketing departments in Germany and Canada. After her daughters were born, she found a new outlet for her creativity and focused on photography and graphic design. She has been involved in portrait, wedding photography and digital art. | |
| A product line of glass ornaments featuring client’s photographs were featured in the St. Catharines Standard's annual Holiday Gift Guide (2008). | ||
| Certification: | Diploma in Publishing and Business Administration, Certificate in Communication Design & Multi Media, Certificate in Business Management Skills / Ontario Management Development Program, Superhost, BC's Visitor Information Councellor, various software and photography certificates | |
| Years in Business: | Since 2008 | |
| Ideal Client: | Those who want to preserve their memories in a special way. Nicole loves to take photographs of babies, children and weddings, and likes to create pieces of art out of photographs. | |
Here to capture YOUR memories! |
Service, Product: | Photography, Photographic Art (ie. to create pop or grunge art from a photograph),Paintings from Photographs, Glass Ornaments with photographs inside, Basic Graphic Design work, Personal Photoshop Instructor, Elementary School Media Workshop Instructor. |
| Voluntary Efforts: | School & Church Volunteer | |
| Achievements, Awards: | Business & Technology Unit Staff Award of the Lifetime Learning Centre (LLC), St. Catharines; Winner of the LLC's design contests for graduation and business conference brochure cover pages (2008); St. Catharines Standard's Brides Magazine chose one of my photographs as their title page. | |
| Future Goals: | Nicole's vision is to merge video with photographs, so she is able to tell a more complete story of events and be better able to preserve people's thoughts and emotions. | |
Perarosa
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Antoinette D'Angelo |
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| www.perarosa.com | ||
| Title: | Fine Chocolate | |
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St. Catharines and Area Arts Council
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Patti Broughton |
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| www.stcartscouncil.ca | ||
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Salina's Gifts
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Karen Treacher |
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Strung Design
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Cath Strung |
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| www.strungdesign.ca | ||
| Title: | Graphic Design Guru |
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| Mission: | Growing your business with on-target design solutions | |
| Biography: | From corporate identity to full-blown marketing plans, Cath Strung designs with your demographic in mind. With a keen eye for typography and colour, solutions to your graphic needs are on time and within budget. Cath has been in the design field since the early eighties, her experience covers the gamut of anything print-related. Success in editorial design and advertising/direct mail design fields is delivered in the quality of work you would expect. |
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Years in Business: | “Like, forever!” |
| Ideal Client: | Passionate about growing the business | |
| Service, Product: | Logo (corporate identity for all media, tweak and perfect existing wordmarks); Advertising (direct mail, brochure, ad, flyer); Marketing Plan – medium-sized business (components, timeline, budget); Packaging (label, bag, sticker); Anything print-related. |
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Web of DreamZ
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Lise Fisher |
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| www.webofdreamz.ca | ||
| Title: | Web Designer - Digital Artist - Fabric Artist | |
| Mission: | To help small business have a custom website which reflects them and their business. | |
| Biography: | Lise worked in the corporate world for 20 years, in several positions and found herself at a crossroads. Taking this opportunity with delight, Lise went back to school and having much success, decided to open her own business to help small businesses achieve their goals. |
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Her web cards and E-nnouncements are unique and custom created for each client. She particularly enjoys the creative challenges that her work presents. | |
| Lise is a fabric artist. She creates unique memory quilts from photos. Lise also creates purses from recycled clothing. Don't throw it out, create a beautiful hand bag! Lise hopes to expand and offer these items to clients. | ||
| Certification: | Graduated Mohawk College with a diplomat in Data Processing. Various software certifications. | |
| Years in Business: | Since June 2008 | |
| Ideal Client: | Small businesses and organizations which are looking for a quality site at a reasonable cost. | |
Here to help YOUR business shine! |
Service, Product: | Custom website design, maintenance, hosting, and updating. Graphic Design for logos. Unique E-nnouncements and Web Cards. |
| Achievements, Awards: | Award for float design at LLC. Award for Excellence - Business and Technology DSBN. Award for creation and maintenance of one of Canada's Top Bowling sites. | |
| Future Goals: | My goals are to continue to help small businesses and organizations achieve their goals through effective websites and knowledge. | |