Today we are meeting one of my best Facebook friends, Alina Ghinga. Here’s  just a little  snippet from this work from  home mom.

I’m a stay-at-home mom, homeschooler, student, and business owner.

I am able to work a flexible schedule, focus on my family and make some extra money. I love what I do & have also been able to build a lovely library for my own children.

Usborne Books & More carries over 1400 award-winning, beautifully illustrated, educational and fun books and activity kits for children ages infant to young adult. We provide book fairs, fundraisers, home shows, reading programs, direct sales, matching grants and income opportunities!

To Contact Alina:

eghinga@yahoo.com

www.ubah.com/A3094

I enjoy reading, writing, working out, decorating, music, art and spending time with my family.

On the side.

Alina’s husband is an artist and does high quality personal paintings. Be sure to check out the talent displayed at his website at :

http://portraitartist.com/ghinga

Ahhh. You probably thought I was done with the interviews, huh? Well, nope! I have several more to go before I start on the Holiday seller’s you see off to the right. That will be a special round of interviews I want to share with for this shopping season! Why not stop by their website right now and see if they carry the “perfect” gift you need to buy for someone!

Its not too late- click here for details if you’d like to buy an ad spot in that column for my Holiday spotlight.

On to meet Holly of The Work At Home Woman.  So  tell us about yourself and your business, Holly.

I am a happily married, full-time stay a home mom to a beautiful little girl named Hadley. While she is napping and before she wakes up in the morning I work part-time from home as the founder of The Work at Home Woman, an online business resource and blog for women and moms who wish to work from home or become self-employed. To supplement that I also work part-time for a small publishing company as a social network liaison.

The Work at Home Woman’s mission is to help women and moms acquire the knowledge and skills to be able to successfully work from home or become self-employed, while providing support, inspiration and motivation.

To Contact Holly:

holly@theworkathomewoman.com

www.TheWorkAtHomeWoman.com

On Twitter:   www.twitter.com/Holly_Hanna

What do you and the family do for fun, Holly?

We love traveling, playing outdoors, swimming, boating, reading, cooking and spending time with family and friends.

WAHM:  Shiloah Baker of  The Homemaking Cottage.

I’m a homeschooling mom of seven wonderful children.  I have been running my online business from home for 11 years this year.  This is my only job, other than motherhood.

The Homemaking Cottage is a site to support homemakers and share ideas for maintaining home and family.  We offer ebooks, and over 897 articles in our Deluxe Edition to inspire, teach, and uplift women in the home.  We were one of the first homemaking sites on the web.  The articles featured are easy for women to identify with and they always love coming back for more.

Contact Shiloah:

The Homemaking Cottage

facebook (my name- Shiloah Baker) or group page

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=125322200642&ref=ts

My family and I love to going on day trips, especially here in North Carolina where there is so much history.  We love to read as a family, work on projects and crafts, and watch Jane Austen movies.  We love to make new recipes and my older children surprise us with new baked goods almost daily.

We’re meeting another Work-At-Home Mom today, Darlene Bishop.  We’ll just call her,  “writer extraordinaire”. Tell us about yourself, Darlene!

A native Texan, I was dragged kicking and screaming to be raised in northern Indiana! Still a country girl at heart, I couldn’t wait to get back to the south. And even though it’s not Texas, East Tennessee is now my home… and I love it – especially the mountains!

As a self-educated writer, I have devoured multitudes of books on writing principles and practiced every writing exercise in them. In college, I majored in business with a strong emphasis on writing. Later, my skills were used extensively in varied jobs from executive assistant to desktop publisher, and then to managing editor for a local newspaper.

I still write for business clients but much of my writing is freelance and blogging for one of three blogs I own and others where I submit guest posts. I’m also working on a book due to be released sometime next year.

To Contact Darlene:

I can be reached a variety of ways online. Through any of my websites:

Darlene Bishop.com
Biz Support Group.com
Frugal Fancy.com

You can also reach me through twitter – http://twitter.com/DeeBishop

or Facebook – http://profile.to/dbishop103/

What do you and the family enjoy doing for fun, Darlene?

I am an avid reader, especially Christian fiction. And I love to scrapbook, though I don’t have much time for it. My husband and I are buying some land in Dunlap, TN where we hope to be able for him to retire in the next couple years.

Today we are re-meeting with Dianna Kelly who works with Cherish Bound. I saw re-meeting because a couple weeks or so back I had a technical glitch and lost her interview so I’m getting it back on here.

So, lets hear from Dianna about her and her business.
I work full time outside the home and am starting a business for additional security. These days, no job is safe. Although this is a tough time to start a business it gives me some control over my future.

I teach people the importance of their story and then show them how to write their story.
There are so many things I love about Cherish Bound. First, it’s personally rewarding. I get to help people reconnect with their families! There’s no better feeling than knowing that what I’m doing not only will make money for me but will help other people! Second, there are almost infinite ways to make money with their products. Yes, you earn a commission on their products and I sell, sell, sell to get those commissions. But you can also teach (children or adults), run summer camps for writing, form writing clubs at high schools, work with elderly in nursing homes…wherever there are people, there are stories! My team has come up with at least 50 ways to promote this product and we’re working on more!

It is also a great way to make money doing something that is personally rewarding. I was once an avid scrapbooker. Finding this company has had a significant impact on how I plan to capture my family’s memories – it’s no longer just about the pictures!
Because there is a relatively small consultant base, I was able to bring the business to NH and my team grew to several people within weeks of signing up!

Contact Dianna or visit the website and blog:
FindCaptureShare
Blog: www.FindCaptureShare.blogspot.com
Or email Dianna at Dianna@FindCaptureShare.com
Or call at 603-496-2392

Dianna, what do you and your family do for fun?
I have 2 very active young girls (2 and 3). We love to work on projects, read books and play outside. My favorite part of the day is listening to the stories they have at the end of every day. Every night I sit with each one and we talk about what they did, what they learned or what they could have done better.