Annie Baird and Yvonne Walrond have fashioned a partnership that seeks to popularize their colourful and decidedly attractive fashion dolls that have to potential to set a new trend in home-decoration.
Both are passionate about developing a craft which they embraced as a hobby into something more – a successful business. In entrepreneurial terms, they are still light years away from success but their talent is evident and with trends in home décor changing these days, like the wind, a major market may well be just around the corner.
Both women are 59 years old. Baird is a Pouderoyen resident who, along with her husband, has created and vended items of craft for years. She learnt to work with her hands under the tutelage of her mother-in-law, Dolly Jacobs, a one-time Home Economics teacher. For more than 40 years she had been involved in the making and marketing of crocheted products, including dolls. Lacking in either meaningful investment capital or conventional marketing skills,
