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Jewelry 'Handmade by Seymour'
A Chicago newspaper man utilizes his off-hours to design and
make copper and silver jewelry that is yielding him around $200 a month.
Lamps for the Bottom of the Sea
The demand for a California man's abalone shell lamps is
so great he may quit his regular job to keep up with it.
Positive Benefits from Negatives
A polio victim since childhood, a Colorado woman with time
on her hands earns more than $1 an hour retouching photographic negatives and tinting prints.
Gremlins that Hail from Oregon
The Gremlins of World War II fame inspired Thelma Powers
to a doll making project from which nearly 1,000 fast-selling little figures have resulted.
The Worm Turns - a Profit
The first summer a Colorado woman started her earthworm
farm she sold 98,000 and that was only the beginning.
'Old Bill,' Cobbler in Wood
A Wisconsin man, who learned wooden shoe making from
his Dutch father, finds a receptive market for all he turns out in his spare time.
BAMBOO - Versatile Craft Material
A 71-year-old Florida man turns ordinary bamboo fishing
poles into unusual earrings, flower planters and many other objects that bring him a substantial extra income.
Branching Out with Blueberries
A 71-year-old retired educator turns to blueberry cultivation
and finds himself the owner of a fast growing fruit and nursery enterprise.
A Fabric Painter Grows in Brooklyn
An inexpensive set of fabric paints started Irene Gorman on
a textile painting enterprise which, with a television boost, has approached full-time proportions within two years.
These Little Eggs Go to Market
Over a twenty-one-year period a Pennsylvania woman has
sold more than 25,000 eggs, dressed up to resemble human and animal faces and figures.
Crazy about Clay Craft
An Oklahoma woman finds air-drying clay an ideal craft
material and pupils from 4 to 80 years old share her enthusiasm.
Sitters Service, Inc.
A New York mother solves the problem of finding part-time
work she can do at home by setting up an organization to supply baby sitters.
Preserving the Vanishing American
Authentic in every detail, the Indian figurines made by a
Seattle man are going to doll and Indian lore collectors all over the world.
Speaking of Trips
A former teacher with a yen to see the world is doing just
that and paying for it with travel lectures to the people back home in Indiana.
Plaques from a Potter's Wheel
Combining old methods with modern designs, a California
war veteran turns out pottery platters so attractive that buyers insist on hanging them on their walls.
Working Wonders with Weeds
A Wisconsin woman gathers vegetation that most of us
ignore and applying paint, turns it into attractive winter bouquets, table decorations, wreaths and window displays.
Recording the Story of My Recording
Almost everyone likes to hear himself on a phonograph
record and that's where a Memphis man is ready to oblige—for a reasonable fee.
Shells, Sales and Success
Making attractive shell jewelry is one thing, selling it is
another, and here's an Ohio woman who tells you how she does both.
Enamel on Copper Means Beauty
A Missouri woman finds that participating in the revival
of enameling on copper is putting her into art and craft shows at a profit.
I Write on Schedule
Henry Unger is able to hold a full-time job, enjoy adequate
leisure and sell scores of magazine articles by sticking to a definite system.
Great Pyrenees Win Great Love
A big white dog of mystery wandered into an Idaho
woman's life and led to the foundation of a kennel which supplies rare dogs to eager buyers.
Puzzling the Small Fry
You may not get rich at it, but like Carol Conner you can
pick up tidy spare-time profits by creating picture puzzles for children's periodicals.
Shell Shakers Prove Money Makers
The cackle of a hen gave a Massachusetts woman an idea
for novel salt and pepper shakers that are popular with her fellow collectors.
Making Old Clocks Tick Again
A California man picks up old mantel clocks for $2 or
$3, reconditions them and sells them for ten times as much.
Keeping Busy With Bees
A Colorado college girl finds her colonies of bees not only
fascinating to work with but through their proverbial industriousness, producers of a steady cash income.
Tiny Rooms that Revive Memories
People pay a California woman $50 and up to create
three-dimensional models of rooms which they want to remember.
Braiding Beauty from Horse Tails
A craft he learned seventy years ago begins producing
profits for an ex-cowpuncher whose braided articles bring him up to $60 each.
Open Field for China Painters
A Long Island girl discovers that the less commonly used
overglaze method of china painting results in brilliantly colored pieces that sell readily.
Roadside Metalsmith
Customers beat a path to a Canadian's rural
shop to buy his hand-wrought silver and copper pieces.
Medallions for Madame
The mysterious stranger who bought seventy-five of Rose
Mintz's beaded medallions was only the first of many
customers who now buy them in the nation's smartest shops.
Income Taxes Bring Me Money!
A 50-cent investment in government booklets started a
Virginia woman's tax consultant service which
soon may be yielding $1,000 for seventy-five days' work.
Keeping Old Houses Looking Old
Since 1932 the James Nicklins have restored seven neglected
early American country houses, selling each at a profit and moving to the next.
Glove Making by Mail
A Canadian woman's kits, including materials and instructions,
enable residents of the tiniest hamlets to emulate her by turning out expensive looking gloves.
Lights! Action! Camera!
A Brooklyn amateur movie maker turns professional by
producing motion pictures which business organizations use to make themselves better known to the public.
She Puts You on Your Yule Card
An Arkansas woman achieves all sorts of novel effects on
the individualized Christmas cards which result from her skillful photography.
Doing Well with Wishing Wells
More and more florist shops are stocking the miniature wishing wells
that an Oklahoma fire captain turns out in his spare time.
Metal Plater Unlimited
Everyone's seen bronze plated baby shoes but Marvin
Spotswood doesn't stop with them; he says he'll plate anything, and he's well paid to do it.
Yule Trees that Bear Lollipops
Children are delighted with the miniature Christmas trees
with edible decorations that a Pennsylvania farm wife turns out for a growing number of buyers.
Felt's Her Favorite Fabric
Betty Seidel's effective and varied use of felt as a craft
material helped turn a Pennsylvania country hotel into a popular gift shop.
Sooner Shaker Maker
Collectors of salt and pepper shakers are always on the lookout
for something different and that's just what Reuben Utley is prepared to sell to them.
Fingers Make Good Paint Brushes
A Colorado real estate man achieves an artistic career in his
leisure by painting pictures with his index finger.
It's Fun Framing Flowers
By baking them in her oven, a Minnesota woman preserves
the beauty of the flowers she uses to create pictures like those which brought her over $100 in four hours.
It's Fun to be a Clown
The circus isn't the only place where clowns can caper. In
Vallejo, California, Keith Macdonald started a clown club whose members have turned semi-professional.
Paper Santas to Brighten the Yule
Every Christmas season Kay Bowe comes up with a different
Santa Claus sculptured from crepe paper. Here's her 1953 version - Santa in a chimney - a figure
of many holiday uses.
Millinery Miniaturist
The tiny hats which a Nevada woman fashions from wax
cord and then trims prettily are rapidly gaining popularity as earrings and lapel pins.
A Woodworker Goes Mail Order
Five years ago Tarley Compton's wife!alked him into making
two wall tables, for their porch. Today he ships similar tables and other pieces of furniture to every state.
A Rembrandt with a Rug Hook
'Painting pictures with wool' is the way Dorothy Lawless
describes one of the many lucrative activities which have stemmed from her skill as a rug hooker.
Making the Most of Metals
The jewelry she makes from copper and silver yields a
two-fold benefit to a Pennsylvania woman, a victim of a disheartening illness.
Pat's Rolls Rescued the Rooneys
A Nebraska housewife used her baking ability to solve a
crucial family problem and now her rolls and cookies are so popular she couldn't stop making them if she wanted to.
Figures Fashioned from Felt
Several stores offer their customers the felt cut-outs designed
and made by three St. Louis housewives to adorn sweaters, knit dresses and other feminine apparel.
I Paint Pictures with Wood
Wood veneer from all over the world is used by a Philadelphia
man to form inlaid portraits and landscapes that match the beauty of fine paintings.
Shell Flora Framed in Pine Needles
A trailer traveler combines two of nature's bounties to
produce floral pictures and trays that sell whether she's in Alaska or Florida.
He Took the Movies to His Home Town
A country storekeeper in a tiny Missouri town finds
that it's good fun and good business to share his motion pictures with his fellow citizens.
Sowing the Seeds of Sewing Success
A New Jersey woman whose hand made aprons sell steadily
reveals the principles she follows in building a home needlework business.
Making Weeds Fill Beauty's Needs
Why waste weeds? asks a Colorado woman who uses paints
to turn usually neglected vegetation into striking bouquets and other decorations.
Sighting Cash through a Camera Lens
Beginning photographers can sell their pictures if they
concentrate on the right subjects, says a Colorado man who learned by experience.
Her Parakeets Prompt Pride
A Texas woman is helping fill the zooming demand for
parakeets which is rapidly making the bright colored birds the most popular pets in feathers.
Bena and his Benattes
A Pennsylvania man develops a pictorial craft with sentimental
appeal that combines elements of drawing, painting, collecting, and clothing design.
Her Club Begins at 40
A Texas woman dispels loneliness and builds a regular
income through a social club for older folk that meets twice a week in her home.
Verses that Help Fill Purses
It's fun to look at the brighter side of life and by
putting what he observes into light verse, Dick Hayman proves that it can also be profitable.
Joe's Candy is Dandy
In the summer they sometimes jeer baseball umpire Joe Todor,
but the rest of the year they cheer for Joe's candy and cakes - and buy them.
Dolls Born on a Loom
A New York woman's 'sculptures in yarn,' which first served
as mascots for our armed forces, are now eagerly sought after by doll collectors everywhere.
Helen's Handee Boards
The many uses which buyers are finding for the bulletin boards made
and sold by an Idaho man and woman prove they were right when they called them 'Helen's Handee Boards'.
Mosaics Made from Leather
Using pieces of waste leather as an artist does paints,
a New Jersey man creates handsome inlaid pictures that bring a minimum of $40 each.
Braiding Beauty into Rugs
Just tell her the color combination you want in a rug and an
Oklahoma woman will braid it for you—but it may cost as much as $792.
Cards with Fifth Avenue Appeal
Gorgia Willis' greeting cards, featuring decoupage design,
sell by the hundreds to discriminating buyers looking for something different.
Rainy Day Friend
'When it rains, I shine,' says a Pennsylvania man whose
avocation of fifty-one years, umbrella making and repairing, earns him more than his regular job.
He Put his Hobby On the Air
Your hobby may be the basis for a television show like
'Canine Comments,' which started on one station in Dallas and now is seen all over America.
Preserving Wild Berry Flavors
The bears are the chief competitors of a Washington
woman whose home-prepared jams and jellies please palates all over the nation.
Tots' Blouses that Go to Town
The success of the blouses made by a forest ranger's wife
proves that you don't have to live in a big city to sell through big city shops.
Ducks Derived from Driftwood
A Texan's hunch that he could make ideal duck decoys
from driftwood was correct, and he can show you sales records to prove it.
My Words Sell Merchants' Goods
A Kansas City woman carries on from her own home an
increasingly successful career as a free lance advertising copywriter.
Dolls from Down on the Farm
'Something from nothing' is the way an Oklahoma farm
wife describes her character dolls, but she sells them for up to $75 each.
Houses Strictly for the Birds
A New York man's birdhouses formed from hollowed-out
logs please not only the birds themselves but a rapidly growing number of human customers.
Flowers that Bloom Among the Rocks
A Pennsylvania woman's policy of not pampering her hardy
seed-grown perennials gets results in the form of plants that attract buyers from a 200-mile radius.
Earrings that Once were Hose
Using discarded nylon stockings and unraveled screen wire, a
Colorado couple make dainty floral earrings of varied hues that sell by 'the washtub full.'
Signs of a Clever Craftsman
Beads that reflect light increase the appeal of the signs made
by a California aircraft worker as fast as a fellow employee can sell them for him.
Greeting Card Versifier
Lots of sentiments on holiday, birthday, sympathy and
other cards are written by amateurs like you and Mabel Stewart, who tells how she goes about it.
Urban Rabbit Raiser
A city man reared on a farm finds that raising rabbits
in his backyard gives him some of the pleasures of farm life along with extra income.
Table Linens to Match Your Dishes
Using one of your dishes as a guide, an Oregon woman will
repeat its design on sets of painted napkins and placemats that are distinctively yours.
Winning Favor Through Flavor
Burdened by big medical bills after her son's tragic accident,
a Pennsylvania woman started marketing her delicious spaghetti sauce and now finds herself with
a booming home business.
Reproducing Yesterday's Dolls
Doll lovers from many parts of the country are eager to
obtain the replicas of old and scarce dolls carefully turned out by a Kansas woman.
Money Does Grow on Plants
A New Yorker outlines the plan he has used to make a small
amount of flower growing space yield $5 a square yard each month.
A Home Career in Handknits
Kay Bowe draws on her own experience to set forth the
essentials of how to go about selling what you knit.
Feature You as a Feature Writer
Subjects for interesting newspaper feature stories are all
around you, says a Connecticut woman who has sold sixty-five in little more than a year.
Tables Whose Tops are Tops
An Arkansas couple who wanted a table with a unique
top made their own to save money, and now they're making money by selling them to other people.
Proud of their Peacocks
The George Fowlers have discovered that raising
peacocks not only adds beauty to their Missouri farm but the surprisingly hardy birds produce a two-way income.
Putting the Woodlands in a Box
A California woman brings the outdoors indoors by placing
bird and animal miniatures in settings fashioned from materials supplied by nature.
Forty Acres of Jewelry
The E. John Royles dreamed of raising cattle
in Arizona but cactus jewelry has turned out to be the main product of their small ranch.
I Harnessed My Inventive Powers
D. A. Wing sets forth the methods he has employed to
make inventions that have lifted him from poverty to independence and financial security.
There's a Future in Fibre Flowers
No wonder Mrs. Euna Douglass believes in the profits to be
made from artificial flowers. More than 1,200 people visit her shop each week.
Pottery Partisan
Martha Elliott of Pittsburgh can offer you several good reasons
for taking up ceramics, but the best is her own artistic and commercial success with the craft.
New Versions of Old Photographs
A Florida couple find that often one day's solicitation
brings them $100 worth of orders for the reproductions of photographs which they make at home.
Pleasing Trade Journal Editors
A California man explains the methods he uses in preparing
articles that sell to scores of the nation's many trade and business periodicals.
Textile Painting Partnership
Two St. Paul mothers who paint fabrics for sale and teach
others to do the same prove that family responsibilities are no obstacle to a home-based career.
Solidly Sold on Shellcraft
Shellcraft was a time-killer for a California woman during
a long hospital stay and now that she's well it's become a money-maker.
Meet Don Davis - Junk-Snupper
In his off hours a California mail order clerk picks up profits
of around $100 a month trading in quaint and undervalued articles.
Carving Originality into Leather
The creator of 'Exclusives by Lillian' proves that if you give
a unique quality to leather-craft products, they're likely to bring prices that startle.
We Build Outdoor Yule Displays
An annual project with a Massachusetts family is turning out
plywood Christmas figures to brighten yards and roof tops. It helps pay holiday bills, too.
Lamps from Palm Petioles
Anything growing in your part of the country from which
to make a lamp? A Florida vacationer discovered a unique material - stems of royal palm leaves.
Dolls that begin in the Orchard
Apples and pears provide the heads for the dolls that a
New York woman first made to continue a family custom and now sells for $10 each.
Doing Big Things with Little Rockers
Faced with idleness when injury ended his capacity for hard
labor, Robert Adkins learned woodcraft and found a sure seller in miniature chair sewing kits.
Centerpieces to Grace any Table
Looking for an idea for a centerpiece for a Christmas table? For
a stork shower? Here's how a Washington woman makes them for those and other occasions.
Photo Cutouts that Preserve Memories
A Colorado woman who makes them finds that colored
photographic cutouts, wood-backed and mounted on a stand, have both a sentimental and a cash value.
I Got a Lift from Plaster Casting
No wonder Howard Moody is enthusiastic about making
and selling plaster figures. His life took a quick turn for the better when he started on this
simple and inexpensive craft.
Flowers from Fowls' Feathers
An Ohio woman dyes poultry feathers varied colors
and uses them to fashion blossoms, corsages and bouquets which sell on sight.
Jewelry that Starts on Pine Trees
A retired hardware salesman with a yen to create turns
tiny pine cones into earrings, pins, necklaces and tie clasps that sell by the hundreds.
Teaching a Town to Dance
Statesville is rapidly becoming the dancingest town in North
Carolina and Jay Little is building a new career as more and more children and adults sign up
for his ballroom dancing lessons.
Mountain Grown Boutonnieres
The beautiful ranges of North Carolina's Blue Ridge
provide the vegetation from which a housewife fashions small dried bouquets just right for lapels.
Making Toys Brings New Joys
The woodworking skills a Virginian developed in his spare
time started him on a new and happy toy-making career after his retirement from the clothing business.
Adding Something New to Old Prints
Engravings like those found in old books and magazines take
on substantially increased value after a Washington, D.C., woman colors them.
Mother - Daughter Shell Enterprise
Ever hear of a punch bowl made from a man-eating clam?
That's only one of the many products fashioned from shells by two California women.
Selling Wood in the Woods
A long time interest in collecting the varied and beautiful
woods of California is the basis of a pleasant 'business in retirement' for Henry Cox in his forest home.
Wood Carvings - Norwegian Style
The spirit as well as the form of Norwegian folk are captured
so perfectly in the little wood figures carved by a Minnesota man that a blind woman
was able to feel their authenticity.
Leather Bags for 'Little Squaws'
An Oklahoma woman proves she's both a good craftswoman
and a good saleswoman by her success with Indian style handbags for little girls.
A Town's Craft Shop and How it Grew
There's inspiration for any community in what a group of
Pass Christian, Mississippi, women have accomplished in providing a sales outlet for the craftsmen
and hobbyists of their region.
A Machine with a Personal Touch
The best investment Lloyd Zeller ever made was the
purchase of a stamping machine that enables him to turn out hundreds of individualized items.
Home Town Wild Animal Photography
You don't have to go on safari to photograph wild animals.
A Cleveland man tells you how to do it in your own town and sell the results.
A Rebirth for Lavender and Lace
An Oregon woman combines three of her hobbies to produce
cross shaped sachets that prove fragrance is never out of date.
Frames to Enhance Pictorial Beauty
A Colorado woman wasn't sure the people of her home town
would buy the pictures she framed but before long she had to call for help to meet the demand.
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