Angela Vinez specializes in Bible Studies for women, design services, photography and blogging about life with a large family. As a mom of 5, most days revolve around utter chaos, but that doesn't slow Angela down. Not only does she run several businesses from home, and raise 5 children, she also homeschools her two oldest children and is active in her church and community.

Regarding Bible Studies:
Super Mom Sanctuary was started as a place to bring rest and refuge to other Christian moms. Life can be overwhelming. At Super Mom Sanctuary, you can put the worries and stresses of life aside and focus on rejuvenating your heart and soul. Our goal is to help you build a real relationship with Christ and to really understand that we "can do all things through Christ." (Philippians 4:13)

Super Mom Sanctuary offers topic discussion including parenting in today's world, strengthening your marriage and relationships, Bible Studies on becoming a Super Mom in Jesus, a place to submit prayer requests, product reviews and giveaways, and a place to list your Christian blog.

Advertising opportunities are available on Super Mom Sanctuary. Please view our media kit for pricing and details.

Regarding Design Services:
Self-taught in web and graphic design, Angie has a passion for helping moms, churches, and small businesses get on the web and get noticed. Whether you are looking for a logo that will help your company stand out, a simple website for getting your church or small business on the web, or a blog deisgn to keep you clients (or family and friends) updated on the latest news, Angie can help at a price that won't break the bank. She works quickly, making certain that you are 100% satisfied along the way.

Angela offers print services such as business card design, postcards design, and even holiday card design to ensure your business is branded and clients will recognize your design the moment they see it. She also offers full blog set-up including social networking setup and training services to help you make the most of your time on the web. Contact her directly for more details.

If you need help getting on the web, contact Angie today. She'd love to help you make your presence known!

To learn more about any of the services or sites that Angela offers, please email Angie directly at info@angelavinez.com .

Angie is offering a special to all Buy By Mom readers! 15% off of her services...just enter bybuymom15 at checkout. This offer expires 3/31/2010 so act now!

Helping Other Business Owners is Claudia Beck's Passion

Claudia Beck is a lifelong artist, graphic designer and business owner. Having worked for other companies her entire career, when she became a Mom just over 10 years ago, she decided to leave the work force. Claudia wanted to and felt she needed to stay home and work. This way she could have the time to be "Mom": the one to take care of and teach her son about life, be there when he needed a hug, a kiss and a playmate too.

While continually doing freelance graphic design during this "post employee" lifestyle she also dabbled with a variety of costly and unsuccessful direct sales companies, money-making programs and other financially draining systems, so she set on a quest to develop her own business, which turned out to be businesses. These could then be based on what she really wanted to do anyway therefore much more worthy of the time it took her to develop and run them.

Because of learning from her mistakes and taking a lot of time to make those mistakes too -- her 10 years as an online marketer and business owner has actually paid off. She has owned and run a variety of niche sites, headed up business networks, written countless articles on a variety of topics and is a huge participator and advocate of affiliate marketing.

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Claudia says, "Way back when -- in the middle of my career -- I pined away wishing I had chosen a different one because I felt that as a mere graphic designer working for someone else, I was not helping others to the extent that I wanted to nor felt that I could do. But now, with my current businesses I am able to comprehensively help other business owners and those who want to be, in a variety of personal, hands on ways. This is what I truly LOVE to do."

"I have been fortunate enough to take on this endeavor during an amazing technological time in history. With the advent of the internet and all of our other technological advances that we are experiencing over the last 15 or so years, it has enabled me to help folks all over the world from my simple little Studio based out of my home. I never would have imagined having a client base that circled the globe! Not only do I have clients world-wide, but many great new business partners and 'dear to me' friends from every corner of the earth as well. What a fantastic time it is to start a business -- own a business -- work to grow a business! I am blessed to be a part of it and even more so to be situated that I can help others do the same."

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Her current portfolio of businesses includes Sunflowers and Seagulls Promotional Services (http://make-me-seen.com) which provides its clients with creative and custom web and print design for all of their advertising, marketing and corporate identity needs. These services help others build a professional and memorable presence for their own businesses.

Claudia also owns WAHM-Trade Website Traffic Services (http://wahm-trade.com). An online advertising service for home-based and small business owners providing them with a variety of targeted and unique venues to drive traffic and potential sales to their websites.

In addition to the above businesses, Claudia also offers Private Coaching services for Ventrino® Traffic Exchange owners (http://www.make-me-seen.com/VNC_Splash1.html) helping them to set up their own online advertising services and get them running quickly, properly and professionally.

Claudia's ultimate goal with these companies is to consolidate them all into one comprehensive business promotions service under her Sunflowers and Seagulls Promotional Services umbrella. She is planning to add other much needed services for business owners such as website hosting and providing them access to 3rd party services such as commercial printing.

Claudia also very much enjoys writing as a way of transferring knowledge to others. She is a published author with Evan Carmichael for their Women Entrepreneurs department (http://www.evancarmichael.com/Women-Entrepreneurs/3329/summary.php). She also writes for article directories and has written numerous articles for her own websites and blog on a variety of topics.

Claudia concludes, "I try to, and LOVE to, meet all of my clients and potential clients personally however possible. So whether it's via an instant chat session, through a computer voice service such as Skype (http://www.jdoqocy.com/8o121kjspjr69EB9CAD687CED8FF) or face to face I try to be as accessible to my clients as possible."

You may take a peek at Claudia's design and illustration work here (http://make-me-seen.com/sunsea_galleryentry.html). She would also love for you to follow her on Twitter at (http://twitter.com/SunSeaPromos). Wanna' contact her directly? She'd love it! Feel free to by clicking here (http://make-me-seen.com/sunsea_contact.html).

The inspiration behind Future Fan Maternity struck Casey Self in August 2008 as she searched all over town for a shirt to wear to an LSU football game. She was 6 months pregnant at the time and found her choices to be very limited...just a couple of maternity t-shirts. Wanting something more flattering, it seemed she was out of luck! She knew there must be other pregnant women out there looking for LSU maternity clothes they could wear to work, a tailgate party or just to lounge around the house!

With that, Casey set out to find a high quality maternity apparel manufacturer and to obtain official licensing rights. She knew she wanted to design maternity flattering, versatile and comfortable maternity wear - pieces that both looked and felt good! As an MBA graduate student at LSU and full-time working mother of two, she knew she would be crazy to embark on a new business venture! She also knew she'd be crazy to pass up the opportunity to start her own company...especially a company that produced products she was proud of.

She started by offering three distinct styles of LSU clothing - pieces she would have wanted while she was pregnant. She has since expanded to included a fleur de lis maternity t-shirt and is working on an LSU tank top. She could not be more proud of the quality of each design piece. The quality is something I can attest to. I received a pair of LSU lounge pants from Casey and they are fantastic...soft, comfortable and of superior quality!

Her goal is to expand her clothing line to offer additional styles and schools...I am definitely looking forward to that!

It has been a challenge for Casey to juggle work, her family and her business but she does it quite well. Future Fan Maternity has become her creative outlet and passion. It has been a wonderful way to put her education to good use and she has certainly learned a lot through practical application! Her company is something she is very proud of - and she should be. She has found a niche that was lacking and has filled it quite well!

She says the idea would not have ever crossed her mind had it not been for her adorable little girl. Her children are a huge motivator for her to take her company further. She hopes that one day they will be able to share in her success.

Congratulations to Casey Self on creating a wonderful work at home mom (wahm) business with superior products!

Happy New Year! I am Julianne Wish, a work at home mom (WAHM) and the new owner of Buy By Mom. Angie and I are working together during the transition period to make sure everything goes smoothly and to make sure the transition is seamless.

I have been in business online for the past decade and offline much longer than that. In addition to Buy By Mom, I own The Wish Place, am a partner with Moms United in Business, the Director of Communications for Our Milk Money, and am the Colorado state representative for the National Association for Moms in Business. I also write a regular column for Our Milk Money entitled Wishful Thinking. Working with WAHMs and helping WAHMs succeed is my passion!

I am very excited and optimistic about 2010. I have been working hard thus far advertising Buy By Mom both online and offline to get you the visibility you need and deserve. I look forward to reviewing your wonderful products and to posting your giveaways...both of which will help you gain even more visibility for your products, services and businesses.

If you haven't already, be sure to join Buy By Mom on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

Happy New Year! I am Julianne Wish, a work at home mom (WAHM) and the new owner of Buy By Mom. Angie and I are working together during the transition period to make sure everything goes smoothly and to make sure the transition is seamless.

I have been in business online for the past decade and offline much longer than that. In addition to Buy By Mom, I own The Wish Place, am a partner with Moms United in Business, and am the Colorado state representative for the National Association for Moms in Business. Working with WAHMs and helping WAHMs succeed is my passion!

I am very excited and optimistic about 2010. I have been working hard thus far advertising Buy By Mom both online and offline to get you the visibility you need and deserve. I look forward to reviewing your wonderful products and to posting your giveaways...both of which will help you gain even more visibility for your products, services and businesses.

If you haven't already, be sure to join Buy By Mom on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

This post will be bitter-sweet for me.

After much thought, even more prayer, and lots of back-and-forth, I have decided to sell Buy By Mom. I've poured my heart and my soul into this website, but with 5 kids, I just don't have the time to invest to make this website all that it can be.

After receiving several offers for the purchase of Buy By Mom, I selected the person I thought would take the best care of the website. A mom who would love this website as much as I do and make it a better place for WAHMs and those looking to support them.

The new owner of the website is Julianne of The Wish Place. If you stop by her website, you can see that she already has a passion and a heart for WAHMs and moms who want to be at home with their children.

I have no doubt that Julianne will do great and mighty things with Buy By Mom, and it will be a site that you want to return to daily.

As for me, I'm not going anywhere for awhile. I'll still be here, helping Julianne out for the next year or so. I just won't be as active as I once was. I'll still be blogging over on my other blog, www.5vinezmonkeys.com and running my graphic, web, and blog design business. All that while taking care of my 5 kids and husband.

I hope that you will continue to stop by and show your support for Buy By Mom. Let's make this an easy transition and give Julianne the welcome she deserves!

And if you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me at angie@buybymom.com.

Buy By Mom offers our readers a wealth of fabulous mom shops to purchase from.

We all understand that money is tight, especially during the holidays, so some of our Mom Shops have offered discounts to Buy By Mom readers! Don't delay. Take advantage of these offers and support work at home moms this holiday season.

Shop with confidence and know that every purchase you make is going to benefit a mom and her family this holiday season.

Discounts:
Angela Vinez Designs - 20% off any order. Use code buybymom at checkout. (Offer ends December 31, 2009)

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