If you've ever been one of those husbands that expects the 'little woman' to get a job rather than just wasting their time watching Oprah, this may be the home-based business for your family.

Deborah McNaughton started a home-based business for mums so they didn't have to palm off the rug-rats while treading the "we-need-some-extra-cash-if-we're-ever-going-to-take-a-family-holiday" path. The idea is based around the party-plan concept (it's a definite winner already) where women can design, create and pay by credit card for their own piece of custom-made jewellery.

DITY beads, the name behind the enterprise, have a seemingly different scope on selling their merchandise. Whereas most party plans take a product to the consumer DITY beads has the consumers designing their own pieces of jewellery and then they're handcrafted by other stay-at-home mums earning money for their time.

I'm just a little concerned! With all this new jewellery will they think they're too glamorous to do the cleaning?

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