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Personal service pays off.(Nina Selby in the baby products industry)

By Merritte, Tanya K.
Publication: Kids Today
Date: Tuesday, May 1 2007

By Tanya K. Merritte

Designer: Nina Selby, Cotton Tale Designs, N. Selby Designs

Background: Nina Selby founded her first crib bedding manufacturing company, Cotton Tale Designs, in 1990, but her work in design goes back further than that. After a brief teaching career, Selby ventured into the design world when she went back to school and received degrees in interior design and landscape design and she worked in those fields for several years. First and foremost, though, Selby said she enjoyed working with fabric. "My main interest has always been fabric," s

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