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In high school, Madalyn Nault crafted and sewed in her spare time. Eventually, she started making her own purses. “My friends would say, ‘Oh, I want a purse, too.’ And so then I just kind of started playing around with all these ideas that came into my head, and I just had to bring them to life,” Nault says. She turned her hobby into a business, which she’s run from her Phoenix home for more...

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“The biggest challenges through this pandemic have been shifting from in-person events to online sales and adjusting to a new way of sourcing materials,” says Madalyn Nault, a Phoenix designer who creates wallets and clutches using vinyl and upcycled fabric under her Madalyn Nault Accessories label. This spring, she reluctantly added a new product: face masks. “I found myself dwelling on the fact that if a skill I had was needed in an emergency, then...