By Katherine Higgins 

On a Saturday afternoon four years ago, Taylor Hampton of Lawrenceville, Ga., uttered the words that would eventually earn her and her mother national recognition as entrepreneurs.

“Mom, I’m bored,” Taylor said that day in April 2003.

Mom Wendy Hampton, a Benson native and credit manager in Atlanta, didn’t have a quick answer when Taylor, now 15, made that complain, so Taylor took her quest for fun to the Internet.  A Web site suggested she create her own board game, and she enlisted mom’s help.

“We basically started from scratch,” said Wendy, the daughter of Matthew and Louise Hampton.  “We had our own poster board and markers.  I got so carried away with it I just never stopped.”

Mom and daughter had a blast that day making the game, called “Who Gets the Job?” “If that gives you an idea how serious-minded my child can be sometimes,” Wendy said.

But more than that, Wendy said, that April afternoon rekindled a long-dormant creative fire.  “When I was younger, I was very creative, and just sitting on the floor with her that particular day, I just kind of got it back,” Wendy said.

As a single mom, Wendy said she was prone to getting bogged down in taking care of her career, daughter and home.  She said she was excited to discover game-making as an escape.

“I felt like a kid again,” Wendy said.

Fast forward to the present, and Befudiom, one of four games Wendy has had since created, is heading for store shelves.  It’s also being featured on a PBS reality show about inventions.

Wendy said the game that became Befudiom, first called Shop Talk, sat for a while after she figured it would cost $50,000 to produce the game herself.

But on a Friday in July 2005, Wendy heard a radio announcement about a casting call for “Everyday Edisons,” a PBS reality show in which inventors would get to watch their ideas become products.

“All I d