MUW Entrepreneur:  This award of Entrepreneur of the Year was given by Mississippi University for Women Center for Entrepreneurship to Penny for displaying entrepreneurial spirit in conceiving and opening Bella Interiors. Bella was a design resource center that offered furniture and accessories from hundreds of companies with a showroom open to the public and designers alike. It featured in-stock items such as furniture, rugs and accessories of all types to choose from as well as catalogs to order from.