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	Day care is the care of a child during the day by a person other than the child's parents or legal guardians, often someone outside the child's immediate family. Day care centers are known in British English as crèches.
	Personal/Public Services Small Business Ideas : Costume Making and Rental Whether it's singing in a choir at church, acting in a school play or performing in a band, we all have had to wear a costume at least once in our lifetime. If you live in the US, you would understand how some people will go to extreme lengths to get THE perfect costume especially around Halloween. The problem of course is that "THE" perfect costume often requires creative and intricate sewing skills - more than what the average person may have. That's where you come in. If you're someone artistic and creative with the ability to sew, then you have the basic skills to start a Costume Making and Rental business. Lots of stay-at-home Moms and Grandmas are actually part-time Costume Makers - making costumes for their kids (and friends). If they were to take the effort to go into it a little bit more seriously and maybe invest a little money, they could turn their skills into a full blown Costume Making and Rental business! Costume Making and Rental doesn't have to be a seasonal thing. If you make a name for yourself, you could be up to your eyeballs in costumes all year round. The trick is in working smart, but more about that later. Other than the skills I mentioned earlier, you DO need to have a sewing machine for starters, a good eye for detail and lots of patience. Before you go scaring yourself silly thinking about how you're not a business woman and how you can't compete with fashion stores, tailors etc, don't. Starting out is easy. You DON'T need lots of fancy gadgets and gizmos and hi-tech skills to make costumes. More often than not, you will receive requests for simple costumes for school plays and recitals. If someone comes to you with a job that you can't handle, you can always turn them down politely, but ALWAYS keep their request in mind and LEARN how to create what they wanted so you'll be ready the next time someone comes around asking for a pink frilly fairy costume with glow-in-the-dark wings that can flutter! Your first step in marketing yourself is to let people know that you can make costumes. Make friends with parents who have small children. Get in touch with kindergartens and schools in your neighbourhood. Make contact with event organizing companies. Let them know that you're handy with a sewing machine and that if they ever need a Honey Bee costume for their daughter or a Pink Dinosaur costume for their son or a choir uniform, to give you a call. As your business expands, you will notice that there are seasonal demands for specific types of costumes. If you want to tap into the Costume Rental business, you will need to create and have these popular costumes in stock and if possible, in different sizes. If you add one costume design - including accessories - every month, in one year, you will have twelve designs in stock. You'll need to keep in touch with the Costume Rental industry - making sure you expand carefully, and in tandem with market demands. Get quotes on your costume materials and figure out how much material you will need to produce the quantity of costumes you need. Check out your competitors and see what they have to offer. Mark your calendar for seasonal trends, making sure you have designs ready well before popular holidays. Starting our small in the Costume Making and Rental business is easy and doesn't cost much, but like all potentially lucrative businesses, as you expand you will need to consider lots of issues - insurance liability, staffing needs, opening a store and adding equipment. Tackle these issues one at a time. Having a website definitely helps build your market presence. It also gives you an opportunity to sell more than just your Costume Making and Rental business. This is a really good niche for creative folk who love making people happy and making money at the same time!

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So You Want To Start A Home Daycare
By David Leonhardt, Thu Dec 8th

So You Want to Start a Home By David Leonhardt

I hang out with the other mommies. No, I am not a "Mister Mom"or a "Househusband". I do have one enviable situation, though. Iwork from home and I have the flexibility to say, "This morningI am going to spend with my daughters. I can play with them. Ican sing with them. I can laugh with them. I can clean up theirice cream that drips all over me."

Or I can say, "This morning I am taking my daughters to the playcenter, where they can play with other children, sing with otherchildren, laugh with other children and spill ice cream on otherchildren instead of on me."

So I hang out with the other mommies.

I've noticed that many mommies want to start a home daycare. Thereasoning seams to go like this.

1.I'm at home within my own children anyway. 2.So far I haveremained relatively unscathed, with few permanent injuries.3.How much trouble can a few extra children running aroundspilling ice cream on the rug cause? 4.Let's tempt fate.

I have two children, a toddler and a baby. They

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are enough of ahandful, and the baby can't even climb on counters...yet.

Before setting up your own home daycare, consider this: how manymore inspiring diaper-changing hours do you want to spend eachday? Little Lady is on her sixth month of perpetualtoilet-training. If there is a purgatory, this is it. Too old tojust carry her treasures in her quick-change diapers, too youngto just go on her own, stuck in the middle in a high-maintenancewaiting room of sorts. Little Sister has a nickname:Poopasaurus, because...oh wait just a minute. I have to go cleanup a mess. Another mess.

I've already written about the challenges of dressing a toddlerwhile she's running bounding over the couch at record-shatteringspeeds: http://www.thehappyguy.com/toddler-dress.html

Then there is the atmosphere. Now that Little Lady doesn't napanymore, she can get mighty cranky. I know the feeling. Itdoesn't take much to get a good wail going. And she has lungs.Or she might break a few rules or a few toys. Or she might justdisobey. It doesn't take long for a parent to lose patience.

Crying. Stress. Babies sense it, and Little Sister can getcranky, too. It's a whole wailing chorus. Before long, thetension in our house can get so thick you could almost cut itwith a chainsaw. Almost.

Does it get any better in a daycare? Yes. You can take in onlychildren who are completely toilet trained. Unfortunately, thosechildren can climb counters. And chairs. And tables. Andbalconies.

If you still want to tempt fate and see how many children ittakes to cause irreparable damage to your house, your car andyour body, here are four tips:

1.Keep all sharp objects, cleansers and medications in a safeplace...like another town. 2.Laminate your couch. And yourcarpets. And your clothes. And your ceiling. And your food.3.Get a good pair of industrial strength earplugs – the kindthey give the guy who pushes the rockets off a Cape Canaveral.4.Place Velcro strips along your walls...just in case.

That's about all the advice I can offer. Oh yes, and did Imention to have fun.

About the author:David Leonhardt is a humor columnist:http://www.TheHappyGuy.com/positive-thinking-free-ezine.html Herecommends also reading:http://www.thehappyguy.com/family-vacation-adventure.htmlhttp://www.thehappyguy.com/birth-story.htmlhttp://www.thehappyguy.com/Thanksgiving-happiness.html

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