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Where did your passion for burlap sprout?

We started seeing it pop up in a lot of the styling of the major home décor retailers…but we always looked at it and said, “that would be cute if we added___” After enough times of saying that, we decided to just create our own!

Have you always had an entrepreneurial itch?

For sure.  The idea of being a woman with a successful business is something we felt like we were on the other side of the fence longing for with so many other businesses.  We would research and talk with any of them we could meet (and still do!) to find out how to do it right.  What we’ve learned is that for better or worse, women, particularly mothers “do” business differently than men. There are certainly inherent challenges that come with being so-called Mom-preners, but we don’t shy away from that calling, because we are madly deeply in love with our children and “burlap babies” too!

What are your hopes and dreams for MonMell Designs?

We’d love to see our ideas come to life on the pages of Pottery Barn,  Ballard Designs, or Nieman Marcus.  But, at this point we just aspire to take MonMell Designs to boutiques and customers all across the US.   If somewhere in that we have enough time and money to pay for two family vacations to the beach somewhere, we wouldn’t complain.

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