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My First Event
My First Event was at the Belmont County Fair 2014 Since I am on the topic of county fairs I want to talk about doing my first paid show at the Belmont County Fair. You may be asking why here. Belmont County is the county that I grew up in and where I have received […]

The Patent Process
Now that I have an actual slipper I need to start finding an attorney that can file a patent for my product. I started by calling an attorney I had used and asked for a referral. I was given a name and I called the attorney. He sent me a list of attorneys in the […]

Creating the Ruby Slipper
Creating a pattern from scratch is like putting a puzzle together and you aren’t quite sure where all the pieces go. I have never been good at puzzles so there were some days in the early stages of developing the pattern that I was frustrated and ready to give up. If it weren’t for the […]

The Story of The Ruby Slipper–Part 1
My Weekend With Mom Spending weekends with Mom has helped me understand and appreciate the struggles that people have getting in and out of the vehicles. I live in Maryland and Mom lived in Ohio. I would leave work and drive to Ohio every weekend and our schedule never changed. The first stop on Saturday […]