MT woman using new-found woodcrafting skills to fight pandemic business losses
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and last updated 2021-02-03 12:14:14-05
HELENA â COVID-19 has forced many businesspeople to adjust to new ways to find revenue. For Rainey Smith of Helena, the pandemic let her explore her creative side.
Smithâs online advertising consulting business was humming right along until the pandemic hit. When she discovered a laser engraver online and helped a friend build a table, Barbed Wire Woodcrafting was born.
She could make intricate, heartfelt engravings on beautiful wood.
âIt will engrave down to the thickness of a piece of hair,â said Smith. âSo you can take a recipe card from your grandmother who you havenât seen in 20 years because sheâs been gone and you can put it on a piece of wood and hang it in your kitchen and have it there forever.â