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“The color catalogue this year gave Faith Mountain a big boost but the business grew so much last year without it,” she cpntinued. “It grew' who knows how much? If I had to put a figure on for last year, I’d say 1,000 percent and this year it will probably grow that much again.”

Throughout most of the store, it’s a family business — but for the employees, not owner Sherrie Woodard.

Mazie Clark and her daughter Charlotte Jenkins have been busy for months, assembling wreaths, bouquets, potpourries and Faith Mountain’s decorative and fashionable hats adorned with dried flowers. “I have three daughters and a granddaughter who work here. My husband works here too,” Mazie said. Another granddaughter, tenyear-old Jennifer, even gets in the act, running errands and doing odd jobs on weekends.

None of Mrs. Clark’s’ family had any experience working with dried flowers and herbs when they were first employed at Faith Mountain. “Sherrie will show you her way and then she’ll say, ‘See what you can do with it now,” Mazie said, explaining her training sessions.

“On the hats, we’re down to three different styles and we have basic colors we work with for each hat. Of course, we’ll do just about anything on a special order,” noted Charlotte Jenkins,

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