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When he began, Dave Lockie needed a pug mill but he couldn’t afford the price tag, so he build one himself, using photos as a guide. Thirty years later, it’s still going strong, processing clay for the pottery studio.
The clay, used in production, is delivered twice a year from the Archie [...]
Continue Reading →Alexa Calio, owner of Refuge Building, knows consumers are concerned with saving money. While people are convinced of the health benefits of using green products, they hesitate because they’re afraid it’s unaffordable. She wants to educate consumers about how going green can keep their wallets healthy, too.
Calio purchased the company in 2010, and brought [...]
Continue Reading →You’d be surprised where some of the largest companies in the world started their businesses. Companies including Microsoft and Hewlett Packard bootstrapped and started out of their homes. So have many of the successful companies based in Bozeman. There is nothing wrong with starting in your spare bedroom, garage, or living room. Anyone with an [...]
Continue Reading →An old, rural airport near Emigrant may not be the first place you think of to call home or headquarters for your handmade journal business, but that’s exactly what Katie Clemons, 29, is doing. Part of the airport’s hangar is being adapted to create both a studio space for Gadanke.com, Clemons’ online journal business, and [...]
Continue Reading →There’s a new trend cropping up in cutting edge studios around the country. A new sexy kind of portrait is quietly becoming what one photographer called “the biggest hidden market in the world.” It’s hidden because theses are private, personal images for women and/or their significant other, not images of models for publication. Fun and [...]
Continue Reading →The distinctive style of Q. Miller Jewelry makes it unique and identifiable no matter where you see it. And you can see it coast-to-coast, since Marcia Miller and her daughter and co-owner, Callie, travel to about 30 retail and wholesale shows during the year.
Marcia has had a life-long interest in art, [...]
Continue Reading →One of the most common questions I’m asked on my weekly radio show is, “Where is the economy going in the next 12 months.” Obviously if I knew the answer to that one I would be a very wealthy man. Perhaps exploring similarities and differences between this recession and past recessions might put things in [...]
Continue Reading →I had my first consultation with an Ayurvedic doctor when I lived in LA in the ‘90s. Deepak Chopra’s bestseller “Perfect Health” had popularized the ancient medical tradition, and being a wellness geek, I read the book and then I had to check it out.
One of the core diagnostic tools in [...]
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