As most of you know, we use many local Work-At-Home-Moms to sew all our products. Each of them have their own home businesses, part of which is doing the sewing for us! Through the years we’ve had as many as 12 WAHMs working for us, but we usually have an average of 8. They have to commit to working at least 10 hours a week for us, and I personally train them so that our products have a consistency of finished product that normally would only come from having them all sewn by the same person! Each of our seamstresses were trained over a period of about 2 weeks, spending around 2 hours in training one day, then practicing at home for one day, and then back for the next step.
I recently asked a few of our seamstresses if they would be willing to share a little about themselves with our customer so they could get a better picture of how our business works, and how purchasing from us helps support women working at home with their children – not people working in factories across the ocean.
So stay tuned, to learn about each one and see how your are making a difference in the lives of these women!
For today, I’ll start with our shop manager – my daughter, Jessica.
Jessica doing her favorite thing - holding a baby!
Jessica completed her education almost 2 years ago, being homes-chooled for all of her education. She began working for me a soon after we began Snap-EZ as the work load became moer than I could handle alone, starting with learning to sew each of the products and apply the snaps. Then she began doing the shipping for me, and also processing returns and exchanges. She now has added managing production as well – creating cut lists and putting together bins for our seamstresses to pick up. She is very happy that she can work from home, and avoid having to go out into the public sector to work in the typical places that young people work – working the hours she wants to work, in the comfort of our home, and enjoying the challenge or planning and executing the activities that keep our business running!
On a more personal note, Jessica enjoys playing the piano, going to movies with her brothers, playing games like Monopoly and Nerts, baking cookies and learning to cook new dishes. She loves to go camping, and is learning to work on cars – she recently learned to do soldering and helped her dad to rewire his project car. She loves babies, and hope to one day be a wife and mother.
