On a flight to New York with my infant daughter, Ella, I envisioned a light-weight, portable hammock-style seat that would give me a place to lay her daughter down on the plane so that I could interact with her, change her diaper, feed her or get her to fall asleep.  I knew that my idea could come to life for my next flight, only a few weeks later, because my father owns a local upholstery shop and over the years he has sewn anything and everything his three daughters have asked of him!  I flew again weeks later with my daughter but this time I had the first FlyeBaby proto-type to use.  I couldn’t believe how my idea had come to life and how the concept actually worked!  My daughter loved it and people on the plane were asking what it was and where I got it!  Ella was able to play peek-a-boo with me and I was able to lay her down and get her to fall fast asleep.  Who knew life on a plane with a baby could actually be enjoyable!  While she slept, I had two free hands and was able to read a magazine. 

When I reached my destination, a rented cabin, I then realized that I had no secure place for her to sit so that I could feed her.  She had just started eating solid foods and trying to feed her while sitting on the floor was a mess for both of us and the floor!  If only I had a high-chair.  I couldn’t have packed one and I couldn’t expect the family we rented the cabin from to buy one for me.  Why couldn’t FlyeBaby serve this purpose as well?  Back to the drawing table, we modified the design so that it would work on the airplane and a dining room chair.  During the re-design process we also came up with the idea of the seat being used on an outdoor lounge chair or beach chair.  We live in Florida and spend a lot of time at the beach and from her first visit Ella loved to eat sand by the fistfuls!  Having a secure place to put her at the beach that allowed me the chance to feed her without the fistfuls of sand was the inspiration behind the lounge and beach-chair uses.

I was digging a hole to place a post in my lawn to keep cars from driving on the grass.  I wanted the post to stick up about two feet above ground level.  I had a really nice 6 foot post that I wish to use for this purpose.  It was such a nice post that it would have been a shame to have cut it shorter.  The solution was to simply dig a four foot deep hole.  I was using an old spread handle, clam style post hole digger that I had borrowed from my neighbor.  I soon found out that as I dug deeper and deeper toward the four foot depth I had to also dig the hole wider and wider at the top or the digger wouldn’t work.   When I finally got down to the four foot depth I found that my hole had a really wide top and I had removed a lot more dirt and dug up more grass than I had wanted to.  I also spent a lot more time digging the hole than I thought it would take.  Then when I place my 6 foot post in the hole it was wobbly because of the wide hole top.  I had to spend a lot more time filling the wide top of the hole around the post and packing the soil tight enough so that the post no longer wobbled.  I thought to myself……”There has got to be a better way!”

       After much thought and experimentation I developed a tool that solved all the problems of the old type diggers and even had some additional benefits.  I applied for a patent, was granted one and began to work to bring this tool to market.