5 days ago
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
‘I love it': Slime pays for teenage business owner Sienna
Most teenagers get their first part-time job in fast food or retail, or might earn pocket money mowing lawns and doing odd jobs.
Not Sienna Grima. At 18, she's juggling year 12 studies with running her own slime business.
When she was 11, she started selling, online and at markets, the tubs of pliable goo she made at home.
The enterprise was an unexpected hit, and she named it Slime By Sienna.
Seven years later, she now owns a factory and has just bought a car.
Sienna fills hundreds of orders per week, and hosts up to six children's birthday parties each weekend, charging $50 a head, with her mother, Jen Grima.
On Sunday, they attended parties in Airport West, Brighton and South Morang. Clients made fake pancakes and ice-creams and decorated them with clay sprinkles, glitter and foam balls.
During the July school holidays, Sienna will run 20 slime workshops, charging $35 a head, at LaManna supermarket in Essendon Fields.
