Kitchen Table Tycoon: Lindsay Bond O’Neill
UKpreneur is featuring 3 kitchen table tycoons this week from Ireland and here is our first:
Lindsay Bond O’Neill from north Dublin returned to fulltime employment after giving birth to her first son three years ago.
“I realised after a few months that working full-time wasn’t going to work out and that I wanted to be at home with him,” she says.
“But I still wanted to do something that gave me a bit of an outlet.”
Lindsay (37) had always had an interest in arts and crafts and had been making up cards as a hobby.
“Friends and family suggested that I could make it into a business and I did some research to see if there would be a market.”
Lindsay launched her business, Creative Bond (www.creativebond.ie), almost two years ago.
She creates custom-made cards for a range of occasions including birth announcements, christening invitations and she also makes up photo-montages.
“I’m still building the business so I do some parttime consulting work for my former employer,” she says.
“It’s great that I have no commuting and can spend more time with my two boys, Logan and Justin.
“It can be challenging to separate work and home so that you can focus time on the business. The good thing is that I can manage my time so I can often work at night when the boys are in bed.
“The long-term plan is that I can build the business more as the boys get older.
“I think that working from home can work well but mums need to have either a skill or a good idea for a business.”