An Open Letter to my Drill Press

I don't know about you guys, but sometimes I seriously hate crafting.  Yeah; I said that, SOMETIMES I HATE CRAFTING.  I don't know, I read all the blogs about how great people's wares are, how to build your business and make it better, or how amazing it can be to do your own thing, which is all great and very helpful, but you never really hear about the downside of it.  I'm talking about those really bad days where the last thing you want to do is come home from your day job only to work on your night job and nothing goes right.  Case in point, my drill press (yeah I'm talking to you drill press).  So here it goes, from the top:

Dear Drill Press,

If I could launch you to the end of the earth and back right now I would.  Why do you want to break on me when I have orders to fulfill?  I'm not sure why, you never respond, but here is my response to you, we are through.  I'm replacing you with the Dremel 3 in 1 and I don't really feel bad about it.  So have a good life drill press and take care.

Love,

Management

Okay I feel a little bit better about things now.

Does anyone else have days where everything they do with their business doesn't work out according to plan?  Or you feel like throwing in the towel, yet you don't because there is always that shiny success story at the end of the tunnel?  Well I want to hear from you, but for now it's off to give Skate Pet Feeder making another go....There are still hours left in the day.

Goodbye weekend:(

It's 830pm on a Monday night and I am bidding adieu to a long work filled weekend (my day job gave us Monday off, yay!)  A lot has been happening since I last wrote...so with my feet up and Tank on my left squeaking his new Kong ball, let me recap...

Friday:  Leave work, make feeders...this is a never ending battle!  Got some new stuff posted for my site and pics sent off to some stores for drop shipping...The day was beautiful so I later snuck off to the beach.

Saturday:  More feeders (do you see a pattern here?)  In the afternoon I went out to DoubleWide Surf Shop and got my newest Skate It Forward applicant, J.P., signed up as well as interest from other skaters.  I'll write more on his project on my new Skate It Forward blog, courtesy of my lovely baby sister, Lynn.  I think it's a great one though!  Got Doggy Go Greens feeders packed and ready to go on my way home, and then off I sped to a pig picking in Beaulaville...If you have never been you should try it, North Carolinians make them some deeeeeelishouusss barbeque.  Afterwards I was able to make it to my favorite pub to listen to some great blue grass music.

Sunday:  More feeders cut, I just bought a new hole cut saw for my drill press, so the skateboards cut like butter right now, it's great.  I'm trying to gear up for the Azalea Festival in Wilmington, NC next weekend, so the more feeders the better.  This will be my first festival that I've done, so I'm curious to see how they will fare.  Cross your fingers...

Monday:  More homework (I go to school at night), moved my office to my new spare bedroom, and yep, you guessed it, cut more feeders.  I was able to get out and buy some beautiful annuals for my garden, finally got them planted tonight.

So now I'm done (for now), there is a siren going off in the distance and Tank, my youngest lab, is howling at it.  I'll keep you posted about the Azalea Festival with DoubleWide...It's gonna be ridiculous!

Welcome to 2010 here's your blog?

Happy New Year!  I'm only a couple months late, but to my defense, I was busy.  A lot has been going on since last I wrote.  I packed up shop in Iraq, came home, and have been spending time with "the kids" and friends.  So I call February my New Year because I'm finally back in the States and able to do stuff.

First order of business get rid of this damn snow!  The whole reason I live in North Carolina is for the beaches, ocean, warm weather, and, oh yeah, NO SNOW!  So why am I staring outside looking at white stuff?  Tanker loves it.

Tank in the blizzard of 2010

It was actaully pretty funny to wake up this morning and throw snowballs for Tank Tank.  He runs around in the yard looking for them forever.  Mean?  Yes.  Hilarious? Absolutely.

Tanker running in the snow

One might wonder why I don't have any pictures of Ziggy in the snow...That's because he is ridiculously smart and refuses to venture out in it.  Good boy Pig, good boy.

Ziggy, the smarter of my two children

Besides the snow, I've been diligently working on Skate Dog Studios.  A lot has been happening in the last couple of weeks, all for the good!  If you haven't seen it yet, check out the new and improved website:  http://www.skatedogstudios.com/ thanks to the creative minds of Avall designs.  I love it, it has a clean look and is easy to use.  Users can now see several different photos of the many Skate Pet Feeders for sale and soon they will be able to purchase even more items like collars, leashes, beds, toys, etc.  Ashley and Nick also redesigned my blog and Twitter pages, so everything bundles up into a nice neat package.

But enough about me, I want to know what you guys want.  What are your favorite pet items you like to purchase?  What would you like me to blog about?  To me, 2010 is about you - getting you as much good pet info as I can and offering the best pet products possible.  In the coming months I'll be reviewing several different unique pet items with the help of my head quality assurance reps, Ziggy and Tank.  I'll also be trying out different dog treat recipes as well as other fun D.I.Y pet projects and I promise to keep you up-to-date. So email, call, Facebook, and Twitter me away, I'm home and I'm ready:)

I'm now on Twitter!

Well it happened...I took the plunge and joined Twitter!  You can check it out at www.twitter.com/skatedogstudios.  I'm still feeling my way around it, but so far so good.  I'm making new twitter friends and tweeting away!

I also thought it would help my business by hiring a marketing consultant.  Being in Iraq trying to start a business back home is hard enough, so I looked to the expertise of Leslie May of Pawsible Marketing http://www.marketingmypetbusiness.com/ She's been fantastic!  With the help of Skype we've set it up to have monthly meetings on the phone.  I'm looking forward to some out-of-the-box thinking and expanding on my social networking skills.

New feeders

Hello everyone,

It's been a little while, but I'm back with two new feeders.  Check them out and let me know what you think!

I'm not going to lie, this first one has to be my favorite, guns and grenades classic.  I almost kept it, but it was too cool not to sell.

These feeders can be purchased, along with others at http://www.skatedogstudios.etsy.com/ for more of a selection check out http://www.skatedogstudios.com/