Comments on: Win $10,000 from Martha Stewart http://womenonbusiness.com/female-entrepreneurs/win-10000-from-martha-stewart Dedicated to women in the world of business. We're not bitches. We're just driven. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:55:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Susan Gunelius http://womenonbusiness.com/female-entrepreneurs/win-10000-from-martha-stewart#comment-1398 Susan Gunelius Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:06:32 +0000 http://womenonbusiness.com/female-entrepreneurs/win-10000-from-martha-stewart#comment-1398 What an inspirational story, Ardelle. I hope you entered the contest! What an inspirational story, Ardelle. I hope you entered the contest!

]]> By: Ardelle Robinson http://womenonbusiness.com/female-entrepreneurs/win-10000-from-martha-stewart#comment-1397 Ardelle Robinson Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:03:43 +0000 http://womenonbusiness.com/female-entrepreneurs/win-10000-from-martha-stewart#comment-1397 Ever since I got my first camera at age 8, I have been hooked on photography. Now at 59, I find myself the proud owner of designs by vivienne, a home-based business using (my original) photography on embossed-bordered note cards, and selling prints that allow me to share what i capture through my lens, with others. The larger collection includes work from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, Hawaii and Kenya. By presenting the beauty of a variety of flowers, the face of a woman who makes $5 a day at a bead factory or a butterfly starring into the lens, I bring to others what I see when I raise my camera to my eye. Customers are so captivated by the work, they often make their card purchases, remove the envelopes and frame the cards, to add special touches to their own homes. I never thought I would be an entrepreneur, a business owner. But as I ventured out into the real world, I realized that there is actually nothing else I would rather be doing in the whole wide world. My goal is to exhibit my work on larger scales than it has been, expand my customer base and distribution points and actually be known as the photographer that I know I am inside! Ever since I got my first camera at age 8, I have been hooked on photography. Now at 59, I find myself the proud owner of designs by vivienne, a home-based business using (my original) photography on embossed-bordered note cards, and selling prints that allow me to share what i capture through my lens, with others. The larger collection includes work from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, Hawaii and Kenya. By presenting the beauty of a variety of flowers, the face of a woman who makes $5 a day at a bead factory or a butterfly starring into the lens, I bring to others what I see when I raise my camera to my eye.

Customers are so captivated by the work, they often make their card purchases, remove the envelopes and frame the cards, to add special touches to their own homes.

I never thought I would be an entrepreneur, a business owner. But as I ventured out into the real world, I realized that there is actually nothing else I would rather be doing in the whole wide world.

My goal is to exhibit my work on larger scales than it has been, expand my customer base and distribution points and actually be known as the photographer that I know I am inside!

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