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Cute as a button – Shellbugs designs

Sep 1, 2008 | A day in my life, Blog

Working from home on a home-based craft business can be lonely. It’s great to link up with other home-based businesses, this is one of my favourites! If you’re in the same boat as me… please ‘drop me a comment’ below to say ‘Hi!’…

Michelle Brown’s SHELL BUGS – Embroidery Designs & Handmade Items -TEXAS

Michelle creates digitized designs for you to use on an embroidery machine as well as ready-made items like hooded towels. I really love Michelle’s PENCIL PUPPETS… but she has lots and lots of other embroidery designs!



Michelle lives in south east Texas and is a wife to Tim, mom to Nathaniel and Theresa, self confessed math-nerd, and teacher!

She enjoys digitizing machine embroidery designs, creating handmade unique items, and says she rarely finds a craft she doesn’t enjoy!

So I guess that’s how she found ME! She’s been a long-standing supporter of my Funky Friends and has just sent me this pic of one of my fleece hats pattern made up for he littlest bub –


No she hasn’t had twins, I just couldn’t decide which photo was the cutest!


Michelle always dreamed of owning a craft business since she was a young child trying to sell her “original creations” door to door and via fliers in mailboxes! After years of great “ideas” for businesses , it finally dawned on her to mix her favorite hobbies with business, and so in 2008 Shellbug Designs was created. (Her web site got its name from her childhood nickname that her husband took to calling her as soon as he heard it!)

She always has lots of new projects on the “drawing board” so check out her site, I’m sure you’ll be inspired to try something new.

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bye for now,

Pauline

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