Microenterprise Directory
Building a strong community often starts with supporting local businesses. Many Vaya members with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities run their own microenterprises, or small businesses. These microenterprises not only give them employment and income, but also a sense of purpose, independence, and an opportunity to give back.
Bo’s Creation Station
Business Name: Bo’s Creation Station
Member Name: Bo
Product/Service: Cartoon prints
Description: If VHS tapes and morning cartoons bring up fond childhood memories, you’re not alone. Bo created an entire business around it from his love of drawing. Bo’s Creation Station is a nostalgic collection of prints and stories that you can order printed on a number of products.
Purchase: bofish100.threadless.com
D’s Notes
Business Name: D’s Notes
Member Name: Dianna
Product/Service: Handmade cards
Description: D’s Notes offers handmade cards using various techniques, including ink stamping, stickers and painting. Dianna makes cards for every holiday, including baby showers, birthdays, invitations, congratulations and special orders.
Purchase: HomeGrown, Asheville
West End Village, Asheville
The Littlest Birds, Asheville
Jeremy’s Lawn and Garden
Business Name: Jeremy’s Lawn and Garden
Member Name: Jeremy
Product/Service: Yard work and fresh eggs
Description: Jeremy’s Lawn and Garden offers a variety of yard work services, including raking leaves, lawn mowing, weed eating, planting, and shoveling sidewalks and driveways. Jeremy also sells fresh eggs and plans to sell produce in the spring.
Purchase: jeremylandg79 (at) gmail.com
Landon’s Home Run Crafts
Business Name Landon’s Home Run Crafts
Member Name: Landon
Product/Service: Handmade cards
Description: Landon is precise in his work and great at visualization which lends to batches of well-designed handmade cards. He picks out designs (“thank you” cards are his favorite) and uses templates to recreate a variety of holiday cards to share with others.
Purchase: Three Little Bears, West Jefferson
Ashe County Arts Council, West Jefferson
The Foundry Downtown, West Jefferson
Nick Burrows Photography
Business Name: Nick Burrows Photography
Member Name: Nick
Product/Service: Photography
Description: Nick Burrows Photography offers assorted prints and calendars. Nick’s passion and artistic eye can be seen in each of his photos from nature and landscapes to restaurants and concerts.
Purchase: Maddie’s on Main, Canton
http://nickburrowsphotography.smugmug.com
A Piece Within
Business Name: A Piece Within
Member Name: Mary Beth
Product/Service: Beaded Bracelets
Description: A Piece Within harbors love in every bracelet. Mary Beth’s signature “I love you” charm is one of many options on her beaded bracelets, and she takes pride in choosing the colors and charms on each one she makes.
Purchase Email: Miraclemary711 (at) icloud.com
Complicated Music Machine
Business Name: Complication Music Machine
Member Name: Jacob
Product/Service: Greeting cards and bookmarks
Description: Complicated Music Machine offers greeting cards and bookmarks featuring artwork from Jacob’s latest projects: “Meltdown Kitchen,” an animated series centered on cooking competitions, and “Complicated Music Machine,” a virtual band set to release country-inspired music. The perfect gift for cooking connoisseurs, music aficionados, or anyone who loves one-of-a-kind art.
Purchase: Madam Clutterbuckets in Asheville
FIRSTwnc Office in Asheville
The Emporium on Main in Hendersonville
Dream Chaser Jewelry
Business Name: Dream Chaser Jewelry
Member Name: Andrew “Chase” Burchfield
Product/Service: Wrapped jewelry (necklaces and bracelets)
Description: Robbinsville, NC resident Chase was diagnosed with autism at a young age, but that hasn’t stopped him from pursuing his passions. Chase has turned his love of collecting and tumbling stones into a business, Dream Chaser Jewelry. He carefully selects raw gemstones and tumbles and wraps the stones himself, making each piece thoughtful and unique.
Purchase: Madam Clutterbuckets in Asheville
The Emporium on Main in Hendersonville
The FIRSTwnc office in Asheville
Dream Chaser Jewelry Facebook Page
Nash’s Hotcakes
Business Name: Nash’s HotCakes
Member Name: Collin “Nash” Broyles
Product/Service: Homemade Fire Starters
Description: These cakes might look tasty, but they aren’t for eating! Nash’s HotCakes are homemade fire starters composed of organic soy wax, woodchips sourced from the John C. Campbell Folk School, and recycled paper. Nash melts the wax, pours it into cupcake-shaped molds with the woodchips, and adds decorative paper on top when his creations are semidry. Nash loves seeing people using his products as much as he loves making them! The HotCakes can burn up to 45 minutes and are safe to use when cooking over a fire.
Purchase: Madam Clutterbuckets in Asheville
FIRSTwnc Office in Asheville
The Emporium on Main in Hendersonville
Honeybee Boutique
Business Name: Honeybee Boutique
Member Name: Kasi
Product/Service: Jewelry and lip balm
Description: Kasi Spears is a jane of all trades who loves exploring her creativity through various
mediums. A self-taught artist, Kasi crafts jewelry using stones and other materials; photographs in
Asheville, Weaverville, and anywhere she travels; and creates beeswax furniture and lip balm using the wax byproduct of her family’s beekeeping. Kasi draws her inspiration from nature and graffiti art. When she isn’t creating, she enjoys teaching Zumba and planting flowers.
Purchase: Madam Clutterbuckets in Asheville
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