A search party is underway to trace a missing Scots man last seen two days ago.
09.11.2022 - 08:23 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A savvy Scots mum has shared how she's managed to make up to over £90,000 a year by quitting her regular 9-5 job and setting up a side hustle online.
While many of us dream about setting up our own business to help control our finances, Anastasia Visnakova made that a reality after she quit her retail job at Debenhams to start selling handmade phone covers on Etsy.
The 33 year-old mum of one put her passion for art and design to good use by setting up the Happy Avocado store on the e-commerce website, alongside her husband, Robert Henson, 31.
Working straight from her living room in Glasgow - which helps cut costs on renting out an office - the savvy mum explained that she now earns thousands of pounds a year through the side hustle, despite not making huge profits in its first year.
Sharing her story with LatestDeals.co.uk, Anastasia said that the business initially only made £413 in its first year, but has seen sales grow up to almost £100k a year through loyal customers all over the world.
Initially beginning as a "one-woman operation", the savvy mum - who studied both art and design at college and photography at university- said that she was inspired to start her own business after watching tutorials on Youtube.
She revealed: "I watched some YouTube videos on making and selling phone cases and I was inspired to try it for myself. That’s how Happy Avocado Store was born.
"I started in 2016 reselling phone cases. Realising that the quality wasn’t up to the standard I wanted them to be, and wanting more artistic freedom, I started making my own cases.
"The first thing I did to start this process was research. Back then there wasn’t as much information about how to make phone cases as there is now. YouTube and forums were
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