“Mummy’s Online!”

After being a high school teacher for 13 years, Fiona decided that she wanted to spend more time at home with her children. While she loved teaching, the thought of having to resume fulll time work loomed in a couple of years when her youngest daughter Emily went to school, so she decided that she needed to create something for herself that would allow her to stay at ...

  For some people, it is happy memories that give birth to great brilliant ideas. This is the case with mum of two and owner of Oli B Designs, Justine.

Oli B Designs was born when around two years ago Justine was remembering just how much she loved the feel of her soft, chenille bedspread while away on holidays. Today, Justine runs Oli B Designs selling at markets and ...

 When Bridie first became a mother she found herself in a bit of a dillema - as a breastfeeding mum, the choice between the hideously huge zippered nursing shirt or just a regular tee that gave way to her "stretchmarked tum" saw her ducking around corners to allude the fashion police.

Nine years or so and three more boob-loving babies later, Haute Mama opened its ...

Like so many other mothers, when Sarah’s daughter started school two years ago, she found herself trying to justify her purpose in life now that her child wasn’t at home. She felt like she needed more. So using her love of sewing and fabric, and with the support of her husband she started Quilt Fabric Delights, an online store specialising in beautiful fabrics, patterns and notions.

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For Monique, running one online business is not enough. She runs three.

As a 35-year-old mum to two gorgeous boys, aged 3 and 13 weeks (wow!), Monique first began That’s Art, an event organising and cake decorating business in 2002, which has been hugely successful through word of mouth. Her first online business project however was Bella Creations, which provides  beautiful and unique gifts ...

When Fiona’s little girl Airlie was born at 27+5 weeks gestation weighing just 861 grams, Fiona found herself searching for support, information, nappies, clothing - anything to help herself learn more about her little girl and what she was going through. When she was faced with a lack of online information, Moment by Moment was born.

Moment by Moment is an online service designed to provide information and ...

After giving birth to her second son in late 2005, Kelly Gough saw a need - to keep breastfeeding mums looking great. And so, after some careful research, Nuvo Maternity was born, offering breastfeeding mums stylish, high quality breastfeeding clothes from both Australian and overseas designers.

In order to be able to care for her children and work flexible hours, Kelly turned to the web, making Nuvo Maternity ...

Whether it be for business or personal reasons, mums all over Australia, and indeed all over the world are making a go of it online - and are becoming a huge success.

My name is Candice Pendergast, and I am one of the co-founders of mumspace.net. I will be using this mumspace to profile some of the thousands of mums who are really making it online, and at the same time showing you ...