| A. Karen Alfke
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| Karen is a professional knitting instructor and designer living in the Pacific Northwest. She learned to design sweaters when she learned to knit in Germany and has made it her mission to "make more independent knitters" through her line of 'Unpatterns.'
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
TT216-Yes, They Can! Design It Themselves With Unpatterns
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| Renee' Barnes
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| Renee' (aka Crochet Renee') is a professional crochet designer with her work appearing in Crochet Magazine, Crochet World and the popular series, "One Skein Wonders" books published by Storey Publishing. She has been a handspinner for four years, and demonstrates at public historical re-enactments and events as well as teaching spinning and crochet at her local yarn store. She has also taught crochet at Arkansas State University.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NT116-Learn To Spin Your Own Yarn!
ST116-Learn To Spin Your Own Yarn!
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| Cat Bordhi
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| Cat's mission, according to Stephanie Pearl McPhee, "is to make you a more creative, free-thinking knitter who problem-solves and experiments with vigor and fearlessness. The best part? She can.” Cat teaches and inspires more than a thousand knitters a year in her classes and retreats all over North America. Her Youtube knitting tutorials reach many thousands more, and her innovative books, Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles, A Treasury of Magical Knitting, A Second Treasury of Magical Knitting and New Pathways For Sock Knitters have reached well over 100,000 knitters. Her newest book, Personal Footprints for Insouciant Sock Knitters, will be released in Fall of 2009. For more information, visit www.catbordhi.com.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NT101-Writing Patterns To Sell or Kit Up
TT201-Personal Footprints - Easy, Easy Socks
FT101-Magical Moebius Knitting and Designing
ST101-Engineering New Stitch Patterns
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| Alice Borge
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| Alice is a graduate of North Carolina State University with degrees in Textile Technology and Textile Management. After doing research in the world of medical textiles, she became a pastry chef working in leading restaurants across the country. She has owned Old Town Needlework in Scottsdale, Arizona for seven years.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
FT111-No Counting Sheep Here!
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| Gwen Bortner
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| Gwen has been teaching since 1986 and is a recognized name at national venues such as TNNA, Stitches and TKGA since 2003. Beginning early in childhood, Gwen has dabbled in all of the various needlearts with knitting finally taking center stage during her college years. Prior to opening Knitability, LLC (www.knitability.com), Gwen spent nearly 20 years as a business consultant, trainer and executive in the computer technology arena. Gwen's passion is the company's motto, "taking knitters to the next level."
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NB103-Share Your Passion--Teach
FB114-Plan A Shop Retreat--For Fun & Profit
FT210-The Hole Truth--All About Lace
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| Laura Bryant
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| Laura discovered her passion for fibers at an early age when she began knitting. A BFA from the University of Michigan concentrated in art textiles and led to work in retail knitting and as a sales representative. In 1984 Laura founded her company, Prism Arts, Inc. Laura’s design excellence has been recognized with grants from both the NEA and Florida. She has published more than 50 books for Prism and has been featured in magazines such as Knitter’s, Love of Knitting and Vogue Knitting. Laura has written four books for Martingale, Inc.; three co-authored with Barry Klein.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
TT212-Intentional Patterning
SB106-Turn Your Customers' Stash Into Store Sales!
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| Amy Bunger
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| As a shop owner and teacher for over 30 years and wholesaler for over 10 years, Amy Bunger knows all sides of this business. Her classes cover the subject completely, and she can give you ideas on teaching as well as selling this class to your students and customers. There is a certain knack to teaching those that teach and she brings that talent to the table.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
FT108-For Me?
SL108-Enhancing the Canvas
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| Christine Bylsma
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| Chris retired from a career in marketing communications and advertising to pursue her artistic passion, knitting and texture play, at home in Madison, WI. Instead, she is having a wonderful time teaching workshops coast to coast (and beyond) for TNNA, retail shops, guilds and conferences and has her own line of knitting patterns available only through retail yarn shops (www.chrisbylsmadesigns.com). Noted for her Crayon Box Jacket, wearable classic designs with a contemporary flair and her love of color, Chris' approach to knitting is that the process should be just as enjoyable as the end product and designs with that in mind.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NB110-The Best Kept Secrets of the Most Successful Shops
FT110-Crayon Box Jacket Short Course
ST110-Savvy Solutions
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| Luana Campbell
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| As head finisher at Needlework Unlimited in Minneapolis, MN for more than 25 years, Luana has seen most of the needlework challenges that can present themselves. She has used these experiences to learn and improve her finishing skills. Luana has developed new finishing techniques for customers as well as for needlepoint designers. For ten years she was a volunteer textile conservation technician at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts working on the conservation of historical textiles.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
TT214-Finishing Needlework Picture Frames
TT312-Stand Up and Be Noticed
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| Lily Chin
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| Lily is an internationally famous knitter and crocheter who has worked in the yarn industry for over 25 years as a designer, instructor and author of books on knitting and crochet. She has created garments for the collections of designers from Ralph Lauren to Diane von Furstenberg. Her work has been on the backs of celebrities and super models. She was named a “Master Knitter” by Vogue Knitting International. She is regularly cited in media across the U.S. including the Late Show with David Letterman, CNN, the NY Times and more. Lily has lived in New York City all her life and has been involved in some aspect of the fashion industry since age 13.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NT104-Double-Sided Knit Casing
TT204-More Reversible Cables
FT104-Custom Fitting Existing Patterns
ST104-Join As You Go Knitting
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| Leslie Cumming
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| Leslie’s passion for the needlearts, knitting, fashion and design along with her 15 years in the world of business and consumer marketing, public relations, new media and technical editing has driven her to create a business that helps knitwear designers, retailers, needlearts organizations and manufacturers tell their story and drive business. Working and teaching part-time in her local yarn shops (LYS’s) in San Francisco and Portland has proven that a lifelong passion for marketing, knitting and teaching can be simultaneously integrated.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
TB211-A Marketing Plan for the Small Business: Why You Need It and How You Start
TB310-The Quiet Powerhouse: The Power of Public Relations
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| Angela Davis
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| Angela , BSBM, of A Little Bird With Yarn Knitting Classes and Workshops is a CYCA certified knitting instructor, a crocheter, spinner, stitcher, and general needlecrafts enthusiast with 20 years of professional experience in marketing and brand management. In addition to establishing and maintaining brands and marketing merchandise for major rock and roll bands during her tenure in the music business, Angela teaches knitting classes in yarn shops, for groups and guilds, and conducts workshops at fiber festivals and conferences. She is proud to have been one of the teachers at the over-the-top sockfest, Sock Summit 2009.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
FB115-Dressing Your Windows To Attract Customers and Move Product
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| Ruth Dilts
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| Ruth has been working in the needlework field since 1980. She has managed retail shops and taught classes for many different levels of students in the U.S. and England. She is also a sales representative for several companies and a designer with her own line of charted needlework. Ruth has also taught for both ANG and EGA as well as many shops. She currently lives in Northern Virginia and teaches at Needlewoman East, Waste Knot Needlepoint and Needles in the Haymarket.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NT107-Derek's Gecko
FT211-Bright Paisley
ST107-Hope for the Cure
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| Edie Eckman
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| Edie has her hands in many aspects of the fiber arts--teaching, writing, designing and editing. Her knit and crochet designs have appeared in many magazines, yarn company publications, pattern leaflets and books. She is the author of Turn the Corner Crochet Borders (2010), Learn to Knit Socks!, The Crochet Answer Book and Beyond the Square Crochet Motifs. Edie travels extensively teaching at conventions, shops and guilds.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NT112-Crocheted Buttonbands and Buttonholes
FT208-Crochet Stitch Workshop
ST114-Crochet Answers
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| Jared Flood
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| Jared is a New York based knitwear designer and photographer. Jared holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and travels the country teaching traditional handknitting technique and garment construction. His design work and writings have been featured in Interweave Knits, Vogue Knitting, Knit.1 Magazines, and Spin Off (Interweave Press) as well as various other print and online sources. Jared’s photography has been featured in numerous online and book publications. He is the creator of www.brooklyntweed.net and author of Made in Brooklyn - a collection of original handknitting designs distributed by Classic Elite Yarns.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
Sold Out - FT204-Colorwork Workshop
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| Carol Gantz
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| Carol is a needlepoint designer for Associated Talents, Inc. She has taught often at TNNA trade shows and continues to teach in stores in her local area of Cleveland, Ohio as well as shops in other locations around the country.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NT111-Needlepoint Store Cottage
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| Sharon Garmize
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| Sharon G has been teaching needlework since the 70's. Art was not her college major, but it was and is her lifetime love. Sharon is self-taught in the modern techniques in needlepoint and has been known to provide detailed stitch guides making it easy for her students to learn advanced techniques. At the age of three, her grandmother placed a piece of linen and a needle in her hands. The fascination of the needlearts has always been a part of her life. Education is never ending and as Sharon says, "Imagine all those beautiful embroideries trapped inside those wonderful threads."
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
TT208-Yin Yang Dragonfly and Ladybug
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| Antje Gillingham
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| Originally from Germany, bestselling designer and author, Antje Gillingham, learned to knit at age eight but truly fell in love with the craft about five years ago, when she took the plunge and opened The Knitting Nest in Maryville, TN. In 2007, she was able to realize her dream of combining her two passions for knitting and writing into one by publishing the bestselling Knitting Circles Around Socks (currently in its 7th printing). Her second book, Knitting More Circles Around Socks, followed in 2009 and is already well on its way to becoming another smashing hit.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
FT109-Cuff-Down and Toe-Up
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| Joanne Hall
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| Joanne has taught weaving classes and workshops at weaving conferences and at art centers and universities for weaving groups and in her studio for 30 years. Author of two weaving books, several weaving articles and many instruction booklets for beginning weavers, she also weaves tapestries, fabrics and decorative weaves. She is owner of Glimakra USA, a weaving business based in Montana.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
FT116-Learning To Weave on a Rigid Heddle Loom
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| Chris Hanner
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| Chris is a self-taught needle felting designer and teacher who has helped bring needle felting to fiber lovers all over the country. She is proud to have been able to help several other designers bring their creations to market and believes that "each one should teach one".
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NT109-Ewe Dye-It Yarns - No Mess Dyeing in Your Shop!
ST109-Little Needle Felted Critters
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| Deborah Jarchow
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| When Deborah discovered weaving in 1996, her life-long love of fiber, texture and color came together and she soon became a full-time weaver. She has created hundreds of garments and accessories for sale and her work has appeared in many national and international exhibits. She has won numerous awards and writes about weaving. Since 2004 she has been an Artist-in-Residence, a teacher and weaver at Studio Channel Islands Art Center in Camarillo, CA, where she was instrumental in developing the Fiber Art Studio. Deborah gives programs and teaches workshops for conferences, guilds, shops and fiber groups.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
TT219-Color and Weave Effects Mini Tote Bag
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| Robin King
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| Robin studied needlepoint for years with Amy Bunger and now teaches and writes custom stitch guides for Amy's customers nationally. Robin has a degree in Prosthetics and worked for 27 years building custom prosthetic devices until her love for the textile design called her into service. She has won ribbons for her excellence in needlepoint and continues to lead her students into exploring the excitement of the modern needlepoint creations. Robin is producer and part owner of Pet Project Video, which films "How'd You Do That?" series of needlepoint DVDs. She also designs and manages Websites.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
Sold Out - FT106-Katt Z. Witch
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| Barry Klein
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| Barry is the owner of Trendsetter Yarns and has been teaching at TNNA for the past 20 years. Barry is co-author of four top selling knitting books, featured designer on Knitty Gritty, Shay Pendray's Needleart Studio and the new Uncommon Threads television show. Barry currently teaches for TKGA and Stitches and travels around North America teaching classes in his customers' stores. Barry is one of the designers for his company, Trendsetter Yarns.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
SB106-Turn Your Customers' Stash Into Store Sales!
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| Melissa Leapman
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| Melissa is the author of several bestselling knitting and crocheting books. Her most recent titles are Continuous Cables and Cables Untangled (Potter Craft, 2006 and 2008), as well as numerous publications and DVDs from Leisure Arts. Her next knitting book will be released Spring 2010.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
TT205-Two-Color Double Knitting
TT303-Basic Pattern Drafting
FT105-Colorful Cables
FT203-Mosaic Knitting: Colorful Knitting the Easy Way
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| Joan Lohr
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| Joan has been a designer of custom stitch guides and counted needlepoint for Rainbow Gallery for many years. She has taught for TNNA, INRG and needlework shops both regionally and nationally as well as for local chapters of ANG and EGA. She has worked in needlework shops and therefore has firsthand knowledge of the wants and needs of shop owners.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NT107-Derek's Gecko
FT211-Bright Paisley
ST107-Hope for the Cure
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| Don Lynch
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Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NT111-Needlepoint Store Cottage
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| June McKnight
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| June is an internationally recognized needlepoint instructor, author and retailer. Years of very successful teaching and selling experience both on the retail and wholesale level make her a phenomenal resource. She has conducted stitching retreats in Carmel, Pacific Grove and Monterey in California. Her little spiral bound stitch books set the industry standard for creative and dimensional needlepoint.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
TT215-Teaching Beginning Needlepoint
TT314-Sew Many Threads, So Much Fun
FB209-It's All About You
FT113-Sew Many Threads, So Much Fun
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| Sally Melville
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| Sally is a knitter, designer, teacher and writer with five books and an extensive teaching schedule. In addition, she draws upon her work as a university teacher and counselor to teach life skills that apply to the work we do with our hands.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NL102-Making the Most of Your Yarn Collection
TL301-Learning, Remembering and Time Management
TT202-Knit To Flatter and Fit
FT102-Borders and Buttonholes
FT201-Advanced Shaping: Lower Edges
SL102-Creativity
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| Lorna Miser
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| Lorna is the original founder of Lorna's Laces, started in the mid-80's. Her experience working with hand-dyed yarns is extensive. Lorna's first book "Faith, Hope, Love, Knitting" was released in 2009 and she is working on her next book which includes techniques for knitting with hand-dyed yarns.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
TT217-Knitting with Giant Skeins
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| Kathy Morrow
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| Kathy is the owner of The Yarn Studio, located in Minturn Colorado and a former TNNA Retail Council member.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NB110-The Best Kept Secrets of the Most Successful Shops
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| SuZy Murphy
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| SuZy is the author of six books - SuZy's Small Stitches, SuZy's Darn Stitches, SuZy's SurpriZe Stitches, SuZy's Lite Stitches, SuZy's Portable Stitches and SuZy's Mini Stitches. She does stitch guides and models for several designers including Maggie Co., Tapestry Tent and JP. She received the TNNA Jubilee Award in 2005 and the 2006 ANG Literary Award. Her teaching stresses the freedom to be innovative with stitches and threads while having fun.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
TT206-Aloha
FT107-Santa In Martini Glass
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| Laura Nelkin
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| Laura has been the design director for Schaefer Yarn and has her own company, Nelkin Designs, that she distributes her patterns through. She also teaches her designs at her LYS, Knitting Etc., in Ithaca, NY. Laura has been leading workshops around the country on knitting with beads and has helped many store owners teach those techniques in their own shops.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
TT218-Teaching Circulate: A Beaded "Fauxbius" Wrap
TT316-Teaching the Undulating Waves Beaded Scarf
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| Clara Parkes
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| A self-professed serial swatcher, Clara is the author of The Knitter's Book of Yarn and The Knitter's Book of Wool. Each week she shares her yarn discoveries in the online knitting magazine, KnittersReview.com, which Folio Magazine has described as "... for the knitting community what Cook's Illustrated is for chefs and foodies."
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
TT309-Yarn 101 (Or How to Talk Intelligently About Every Skein of Yarn in Your Shop)
FT206-Yarn 101 (Or How to Talk Intelligently About Every Skein of Yarn in Your Shop)
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| Patricia Parra
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| Patricia has been involved with needlework since she was 6 years old, although needlepoint has been her passion for the last 9 years. She fell in love with silk gauze work about 3 years ago. While stitching this project she soon realized that using decorative stitches to embellish the design added another dimension to the work. She soon found herself designing her own. Some of her silk gauze pieces have been featured in Needlepoint Now magazine. She also contributes articles for the Basics column of the magazine. Patricia also offers her clients stitch guide designs for painted canvases. She teaches classes at home in San Francisco and throughout Northern California.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
TT213-Baubles, Baubles and More Baubles
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| Jane Patrick
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| Jane has been involved in weaving for over 30 years. She is the former editor of Handwoven magazine and the author of several weaving books including Time to Weave. Her new book, The Weavers Idea Book (Interweave Press) will be released this spring. Jane has taught beginning and intermediate rigid heddle weaving at her local LYS, as well as given workshops and programs around the country. Jane is currently creative director for Schacht Spindle Company, Inc., a loom and spinning wheel manufacturer located in Boulder, Colorado.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NL114-Diversify With Weaving
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| Wilhelmine Peers
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| Leaving Math, Physics, Computer Sciences, Adult Education and Psychology degrees behind, they all formed the next evolution, designing and teaching knitwear, crocheting, sewing. Wilma owned a studio for many years that influences the skills she applies to her exploration of the creative process.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
FB117-Business Sense: Marketing and Promotions
FB212-Business Sense: Marketing and Promotions (Part 2)
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| Shay Pendray
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| Shay, certified in canvas work by the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, is a teacher, lecturer, designer, host of the long running PBS TV show, Needle Arts Studio; author of four books; past owner of retail shop; a production company and manufactures and distributes needlework products. Currently one of the hosts on the PBS TV show Knitting Daily TV. Shay has studied Japanese Embroidery for over 18 years. She has had the privilege of studying with four different Sensi (teachers) in Japan. Shay has had the honor to study with Kiju Funkuda, Living National Treasure of Japanese Embroidery, in Japan. She was the driving force in bringing Japanese Embroidery to the United States and has many students in this technique from around the world. Books: Stitching Toward Perfection (self-published), Shay Pendray’s Needle Craft Projects, Needleworker’s Companion, Shay Pendray’s Inventive Needlework. Awards: The National NeedleArts Association TEN Award, The National Academy of Needle Artist “Life Achievement Award,” DMC Teacher of the Year, ANG Literary Award, NAWBO, Top 10 Business Women in 2000 in the State of Michigan. Shay was also awarded a Life Membership in the Embroiderers’ Guild of America and awarded a Life Membership in her local chapter of The Embroiderers’ Guild. She is a past Board Member of The National NeedleArts Association.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
TB302-Exit Strategies
TT203-Or Nue'
FB202-Exit Strategies
FT103-Or Nue'
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| Rosalie Peters Bourque
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| Rosalie is a designer, author and teacher. She has created many needlework designs for every taste and budget. The designer has authored and co-authored numerous booklets and pamphlets on needlepoint for basic, intermediate and advanced needlepoint, bargello, pulled thread, creative stitchery and cross-stitch. She has specialized in traditional designs and antique adaptations. Rosalie started designing needlepoint in 1970 and began operating as Shariane Designs in 1971. For five years, this company was the primary supplier of needlepoint to Bonwit Teller as well as numerous shops across the country. She has lectured nationally and has sponsored needlepoint seminars in Asheville, North Carolina where she spends the summer. Rosalie is a member of the American Needlepoint Guild and Embroiderer's Guild of America. She was listed in the 1981 and 1982 editions of "Who's Who of American Women."
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
FT207-Santa Christmas Ornament
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| Margaret Radcliffe
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| Margaret is the author of the bestselling Knitting Answer Book and The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques. She publishes her knitting designs under the name Maggie's Rags. Margaret enthusiastically teaches everything from beginning knitting to garment design and is acclaimed for her ability to help all knitters to become independent and creative. Her many teaching venues include the John C. Campbell Folk School, The Knitting Guild Association, Stitches Expos, Knautical Knitters Cruises, the J&E Riggins Maine Knitting Cruises, the Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat, Knittapalooza, Knitters Day Out, and shops and guilds across the US.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NT113-Slipped Stitch Patterns
ST113-Planning Ahead for Perfect Finishing
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| Tracey Sisko
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| Tracey has a combined 50 years experience in fiber arts and technology. With a formal background in Computer and Information Science and an MBA, she has been involved with business applications and the Internet since the early 1990’s. Today, she combines her love of technology with her love of knitting, crocheting and needlepoint by offering technology consulting services to small and medium sized business and teaching at her local LYS; Ewe and I in Narberth, PA. Both her knitting and technology clients agree that she successfully demonstrates complex technical (computer and fiber-related) concepts in simple, easy to understand and adopt terms.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NB117-Taking Your Shop Online, Web Site and Beyond!
SB117-Using the Internet for Business Success
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| Julia Snyder
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| Julia started stitching at the age of four and has not stopped since. She also designed and taught classes for ANG, EGA, Needlepointers, Destination Dallas Market and TNNA Market. She has been teaching for the past 15 years since she and her mother opened Key Stitches. Along with stitching and teaching, Julia stays busy writing stitch guides for designers and clients. The designers she has taught for or written stitch guides for include Strictly Christmas, Raymond Crawford, Melissa Shirley, A Collection of Designs, Rebecca Wood and many more. She is the author of 176 Amazing Stitches, Backgrounds & Such and Categories for Needlepoint. Her fourth book is coming.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NT106-Filling the Stocking
ST111-Hugs and Kisses
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| Sandy Steere
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Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NT111-Needlepoint Store Cottage
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| Cynthia Thomas
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| Cindy as a child loved to play with scraps in her grandparent's tailor shop and out of this grew a love of all things needlework. She learned to embroider at the age of six and begin teaching needlework while in high school. She currently teaches classes at the Yarn Barn of San Antonio and Chaparral in Houston, Texas. She has over 125 commercially available stitch guides and has written hundreds of custom stitch guides.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NT115-Anticipation
ST115-Land of the Midnight Sun
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| Kathy Vigneau
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| A successful retail needlepoint store owner for 11 years at Needlepoint Alley in North Palm Beach, Florida. She has a bachelor's degree in Home Economics Education and a master's degree in Education from Framingham State College in Massachusetts. For over 20 years, Kathy has taught Home Economics Education at the high school level in the Boston area. In her retail career, she has faithfully attended trade shows twice a year.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NB108-How to Run a Well Oiled Needlework Business
SB103-How to Run a Well Oiled Needlework Business
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| Laurie Walden
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| Laurie began her needlework at a young age working with her grandmother on all sorts of projects. She has been a longtime teacher locally. Her passion for stumpwork and ribbon embroidery is contagious. Laurie, her husband Pat and daughter Hayley live in Houston, Texas. She is currently teaching at Chandail Needlework and enjoys training with her labs.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
FT112-Spring Meadows
ST112-Spring Meadows
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| Susan Wolcott
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| As Director of Events and Operations, Susan Wolcott brings a managerial and operational background to all operations of Y2Knit, including events, wholesaling and the Y2Knit yarn shop and Web site. Susan’s background includes a degree in organizational learning, working as a life coach and serving as Marketing Director for startups--all contributing to some innovative and unique views on managing a business.
Classes offered at TNNA Long Beach 2010:
NB105-Small Shop, Small Budget
SB105-Ready for a Shop Facelift or Makeover?
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