WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla — Letter by letter and stamp by stamp, Hailey Henderson, 10, creates custom home decor. Her creations in the present are helping to fund her dreams for the future.
- Henderson turned hobby into business
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Henderson stamps personalized books.
"I can make them for holidays or I made some 'protect-and-serve' ones for like the police, and I can make firefighters and the Marines," said Henderson. "I can just stamp them and make 'em say whatever you want, like a quote or anything."
Henderson, now in 6th grade, is proud of her designs.
"They really look good in your house — just saying," she said.
Henderson recently took her hobby to a new level. With her mom's help, she started her own Etsy store, Hailey Brooke Designs.
The DIY projects are helping Hailey earn money for her first passion.
"Ice skating, it's like a dream come true, because you don't have to think about homework, you don't have to think about schoolwork, you can just think about something you love," she explained.
Henderson loves combining two of her favorite things to follow her dreams.
"It's raising money for the lessons that I do, and the more lessons I do, the more practice I get, the more I get to try and get to the Olympics," Henderson said.
With multiple practices a week, mom Melissa Nordholm loves that Henderson understands those dreams of Olympic gold won't come easy financially.
"Being able to see that drive and ambition in her is very heartwarming," Nordholm told us. "It makes me feel like, you know, we did something right here."
With each bundle of books sold, that dream gets a little closer.
The skater is so grateful for her customers, each one gets a handwritten 'thank you' note.
"You are the reasons my dreams are coming true, XOXO Hailey," each note reads.