Jill Chuckas

Name: Jill Chuckas
Company: Crafty Baby®
Position: Owner, Designer
Website: www.craftybaby.com
Annual Sales: $38,000
How many children do you have? 3: Alexander – 11, Nicholas – 9, Hannah - 5

Tell us about your company (in 50 words or less):
Crafty Baby® specializes in unique, fun and functional creations for children. Our original items are designed for maximum practicality and durability. Kid-tested, kid-approved, each item is proudly hand crafted in the USA.

Share one personal or business ambition:
To open up a store front/ stitchery in my home town. I would love to have a physical location that employs 3 or 4 part time seamstresses with a small store front to sell my line as well as other, hand crafted in the USA children’s products.

My most humbling parenting moment was...When the doctor handed me each of my children for the first time and I was struck with the knowledge that this child, this part of me, is someone for whom I will forever be responsible. Awe inspiring, along with humbling.

I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about...trying to balance family with work and wishing I could do it more effectively.

Favorite website to visit when NOT working?
Am I really ever not working? Just kidding (kind of)…I love to visit www.mommyperks.com, www.handmadetoyalliance.org, facebook and twitter.