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This year, over 1200 women were nominated or registered for The 2018 Mompreneur Awards, and 205 entrants advanced. After accumulating points based on a public voting stage from over 90,000 public voters and 30,000 supporters and impression ratings from a selection committee, 23 Top Finalists were chosen from all across Canada to fly to Toronto for the National Mompreneurs® Conference... 

Happy last official Friday of summer!  Today we’re celebrating our feature models who helped ROCK our season.  We filled our roster with real women — Entrepreneurs, Trailblazers, Achievers, women who say YES to making a difference and seizing the day.  What a joy and inspiration it’s been to work them all.  Thank you for the LOVE!!

It's been an amazing first season for Wallis Evera -- we have so much to be thankful for!  When we started, our commitment was to create clothing that we knew was hard to find -- high quality, locally made, natural fibre, clothes for the office -- the practical workhorses of our closet -- work dresses that are good for the planet, look sharp, fit and feel great.  

Our focus on using hemp as the foundation fibre for all our products has been important to us.  We know it's a little different, and it takes a bit of a conversation to warm up to the whole hemp idea.  And that's OK with us.  We love different.  When we hear that our dresses have been the start of conversations around the water cooler about deep and complex world issues -- well, that's extremely cool to us.  We love to hear that kind of news, so please keep the conversations going and the feedback coming...

It's a good day to pause and just breathe in everything that's happened in the year so far.  For Wallis Evera, it's been a busy launch year filled with a lot of "firsts"...our 1st collection, 1st runway show, 1st time in a Top 10 list in the press, 1st dress parties, 1st customers...