Pomegranate Stained Glass
Suite 8, Griffin Plaza
4150 Hwy 231
Laceys Spring, AL 35754

Contact: 256 348 2893 for an appoitment and directions.

Huntsville Times

Entrepreneur of the Week: Rebecca Mauldin
Merging business with creativity

Author: GREGG L. PARKER   
Date: September 1, 2006. Page: 6B
Publication: Huntsville Times, The (AL)

What: Stained Glass Studio

Who: Rebecca Mauldin

What it does: Creates original, stained-glass panels by traditional craftsmanship. Done mostly by commission, her designs encourage new clients to be "adventuresome and ask for the different," Mauldin said.
     Examples include a cowboy hat rack, a gourmet kitchen's pantry door and collaboration with a welder for a "powder room's sink stand embellished with stained glass."
Mauldin bases her creativity on inspiration, which is "rarely totally self-contained."

Employees: "A one-woman shop."

Company history: Began art study in 1983 at the University of Utah. A decade late in Auburn, she filled commission order for special gifts. By 2002, her artistry advanced with "high-quality art glass and new ways to present the traditional stained-glass panel."
     Now her work "demonstrates and elegant finesse and boldness" with the "best quality" glasses and metals.
      After two years of marketing, Mauldin sees increased demand surfacing. "Perseverance pays off." Her suitcase-sized cyclist panels have been presented as gifts in Spain, Italy and the Netherlands.

On the side: Service/sales assistant at a sewing center.

Secret of success: "Stick to the innocence that my inspiration come from: new design ideas, places and people."

Lesson learned: Listen with "ears of both artist and entrepreneur" and look at "dynamic proof of the business, not its form only." After that homework, "then, only then, work hard at creation of my art."