Crafting a small business is always a challenge, but Kelli Berry has managed to make a small business out of crafting.

Berry recently opened the new storefront for Hippie Chick Hangout at 1826 W. Morris Boulevard in Morristown where customers can come in and be as artistic/crafty as you want.

“Basically, how I got started is I outgrew my craft room at home and my husband said, well, ‘I’m not buying you a bigger house,’” Berry told a group of supporters at a ribbon cutting earlier this month. “So I thought, well, he won't give me a bigger craft room, I'll get a store and I'll invite new friends and we'll come in and do crafts together. I decided since I had retired from the corporate world that I needed something to do because I’m too young to do nothing.”

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