'Totally Local'

"People don't want more information. They are up to their eyeballs in
information. They want faith ... faith in you, your goals, your success , in the
story that you tell."
-Annette Simmons, author of Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins.

This is my first blog for the patch and I thought I would take few
lines and tell you my story. I spent many years in corporate life, worked for a
large transportation company as a corporate recruiter. In 2005, I was looking for
a change, a challenge, a new adventure...what I found was the path to being an
entrepreneur.

If a challenge is what I was looking for, I had found it in Little House of Flowers! It's been a fantastic five-and-a-half years and we are excited to be a part of this community and hopefully will be delivering smiles for years to come.

I'm so excited to be writing a new blog for the Odenton Patch! I have titled it "Totally Local." Our mission is to bring an awareness about our local merchants, our neighbors, our churches and our community as a whole to you the reader. A perfect introduction to our "Totally Local" theme is  a national movement called the 3/50 Project.  (Find them at http://www.the350project.net/home.html) To sum it all up, shop at your local merchants and save the ecomony in your town. Now here's the interesting part:  For every $100 spent in locally-owned independent stores, $68.00 returns to the community through taxes, payroll and other expeditures.  If you spend that in a national chain, $43.00 stays here, buy it online and ZERO stays in our neighborhood, town, county, city and state. 

WOW, that really hit home for me. I have friends who are police officers, firefighters and teachers, and I want my dollars to support my friends and neighbors...don't you?

Thanks for reading and next time we'll explore a great local business in our town!