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Jennie
- Nov 9, 2020
- 4 min
Can We Build 25 Cutting Boards in 2 Days?
That's the question we set out to answer this past week! And it wasn't for click bait. It wasn't to sound cool or to get likes online. It was a LEGITIMATE goal that we set for ourselves!! You may think it sounds crazy, but that's okay, because WE DID TOO! But we wanted it to be crazy. Actually, we needed it to be crazy.... So all of this started with a bit of a thought experiment: We wanted to figure out what the max capacity of our little shop was. Why? Because we knew we'd
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Jennie
- Nov 2, 2020
- 5 min
How We Chose Our Business Name
It's what shows up instantly on all of your social media platforms! It's what clients see and remember on your website! It's what you put on t-shirts, stickers, and mugs! Picking a good name for your business is important for MANY reasons, but we've gotten quite a few questions from people on what a good name actually looks like and why we chose ours. If you're having a hard time choosing a name, or you're stuck between a couple options and just can't find the right one....yo
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Jennie
- Oct 26, 2020
- 3 min
Starting Our Business...Again..
So you're probably thinking to yourself...."Wow, since they've already had to start their business once when they lived in North Dakota, they should be experts at it now in Houston!" HA! hahahaha Not quite...I mean, yes, some things are easier and we're a little bit better at predicting problems, but starting a business is just a difficult thing to do all around. Basically, we want to make sure we do everything right this time around and really get organized and create solid
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Jennie
- Oct 13, 2020
- 4 min
Our Cutting and Serving Board Packaging
If you've been around for a while, you'll know it's been a long journey from building our serving boards, to finishing, to testing, to creating a customer experience, to refinishing services, and FINALLY....to PACKAGING!! We took some time to research what type of packing we wanted to go with...but here's what we ultimately decided on ....(for now).... Check out the video we made all about it! Like we talked about in our previous blog post, we need to keep the cost of these b
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Jennie
- Sep 6, 2020
- 4 min
Best Selling Cutting Board Prototype
If you read our last post and watched our last video, you’ll know that the past few months have been spent prototyping the projects we plan to batch out! We’re looking for simple, yet high quality designs that can be built quickly and in a very organized and repeatable way! Now that we’ve figured out our charcuterie board process, we’ve moved on to the cutting boards we plan to sell to realtors as closing gifts for their clients. Before we started the process of nailing down
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Jennie
- Aug 3, 2020
- 3 min
Serving Board Prototypes
Welcome back to yet ANOTHER addition to the beloved serving board series! If you haven’t been keeping up with the series and how/why we started it, check out the previous blog posts below: Building Testing Finishing Long story long, we started out by making 100 serving boards to test our processes when it came to purchasing lumber, milling, cutting to size, sanding, and finishing. We wanted to figure out where our sticking points would be and fix them in our checklists before
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Jennie
- May 28, 2020
- 4 min
Work From Home Studio Desk
We were able to make it back to Texas for a bit and we decided to knock out a project we have been meaning to accomplish for MONTHS now! In ONE weekend we built a desk for our new office/recording studio! Check out the video below! But this video also had… MANY, MANY adventures wrapped up inside of it as well… The Desk Build Ever since we moved into our new place in Texas, we’ve been wanting an office space that would be perfect for everyday work (editing, filming, recording,
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Jennie
- Apr 25, 2020
- 3 min
What if I don’t have a MENTOR??
“You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn A lot of us have heard this quote before. It basically means that the people you spend the most time with end up influencing your life and decisions the most. Because of this, we obviously want to be very intentional about who those 5 people are! If we surround ourselves with negative people who are always doubting us and our goals…chances are…we’ll start to doubt ourselves and our goals. But…you m
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Jennie
- Mar 24, 2020
- 2 min
How We Respond & 40% Off
We truly hope that this post finds you safe and in good health! These last couple months have been a crazy time for us all (especially the last 2 weeks!!) We’ve seen schools close, people quarantined, and essentially all commercial flight diminish. But perhaps the most relevant effect of the COVID-19 virus has been the sheer amount of people working from home and telecommuting. All of a sudden even those with the most rigid and repetitive of daytime routines are left wonderin
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Jennie
- Dec 31, 2019
- 3 min
Resolutions in 2020 and 20% Off!
Well, here we are. It’s New Year’s Eve of 2019 – just a few hours until the NEW DECADE! It feels like Christmas flew by!! For a lot of us, it’s probably the time where we’re thinking about our New Year’s Resolutions and all the plans (big or small) we have for 2020! For some of us, this can be really hard to do!! Like honestly, what aspects of your life or future are important enough to you that you want to dedicate the next 365 days (and beyond) to them? Asking yourself a qu
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Jennie
- Oct 31, 2019
- 4 min
Angled Coffee Table
So we’re pretty much all moved into our new place down here and are now figuring out all of the furniture we will need to build for ourselves. As much as I wish we could have fit our couches, coffee table, kitchen table, and entertainment center in the trailer – we sadly could not. Like not even close. Not a single one of those items made the move with us. Instead we sold them all to re-build and re-buy once we got down here to Texas. So we bought a new sectional to go in our
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Jennie
- Oct 30, 2019
- 3 min
This is Us!
Hi there! This blog post is going to be a little different than our usual “how we built this” or “how we priced this” type content. It’s one we’ve wanted to do for a while, so we’re pretty excited to share it with you!! A lot of you know that we’re “a young couple starting a woodworking business because when we graduated college, typical furniture was WAY too expensive for us – so we decided to build it instead”. That’s the canned Instagram bio story. Well, here’s some more b
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Jennie
- Oct 24, 2019
- 5 min
Our Finished Shop!
It feels SO good to finally be able to say this after a LONG week of re-arranging, sweeping, lifting heavy tools, and building shop furniture… OUR SHOP IS FINALLY DONE!! As much as we wished we could just spend an entire month getting every single detail of this space EXACTLY the way we want it…we kind of had to knock it out as quickly as possible – and here’s why: Every week the shop isn’t finished and we’re not building….we’re not making money!! We quit our full time jobs f
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Jennie
- Oct 17, 2019
- 5 min
Building Our NEW SHOP!!
So for the past few months we’ve been talking about how when we moved down to Texas from North Dakota we would be tearing down our entire shop and having to build it all over again. Well, the time has come and here we are. With a garage full of boxes covered in tape and moderately helpful labels. Because we need to get out and start finding clients, we VERY quickly need to get unpacked, figure out an efficient shop layout, and build storage/shelving units! We can’t really mak
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Jennie
- Sep 20, 2019
- 5 min
10 Things that will KILL your Woodworking business
Along with all of the fun and exciting things you learn when starting a woodworking business come plenty of lessons that you only want to learn once. …ask us how we know… But seriously! There are quite a few common mistakes that all of us looking to start a business typically walk right into – whether it be somewhat obvious at the time or not. Most of these lessons we learned in hind-sight, but a very few we were able to catch. Which is why we decided to compile them all into
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Jennie
- Sep 1, 2019
- 3 min
Why Did We Start Sketching?!
Because we’re secretly amazing artists who just decided to build furniture?? Definitely not…(Ha! let’s be honest we’re both nerds who decided to pick up a pencil). Nope, we got into sketching furniture because we learned that our clients really liked it and it got us all on the same page of what the piece was going to look like in the end! There were no surprises or unexpected elements when it came time for the reveal because the customer had already seen the details going in
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Jennie
- Aug 11, 2019
- 5 min
Moving Our Shop ACROSS the COUNTRY!
If you’ve watched or scrolled past any of our content lately (ehhh…like in the last 8 months I guess…) you’ll probably see one recurring theme in all of it – WE’RE MOVING! Yep. We both got brand new jobs and we are packing up our entire lives and moving across the country. Isn’t that a bit crazy, you say?? We just got our ideal shop set up and a solid customer base in our area…. Well, folks…these jobs are PART-TIME. That’s right. That means we will have twice the time to put
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Jennie
- Jul 22, 2019
- 4 min
Our 5 Projects That Sell the Best
We do a lot of talking on our YouTube channel about being efficient with how and what you sell in your woodworking business. Honestly, the majority of that is due to the fact that we (and so many woodworkers like us) have full-time jobs and do this “maker” thing on the side. For example – we don’t have enough time to do a Queen Anne Highboy in a reasonable time period right now that people would want to pay money for! The customer would have to wait MONTHS if not a YEAR for u
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Jennie
- Jun 17, 2019
- 5 min
Our Tools and How They Launched Us!
Do you ever use certain tools and remember when you bought them? Like remembering what project you bought it for, or when your last one died at the most inconvenient time and you had to sprint out and buy the one you use now? Fine – it may sound kind of cheesy, but we have A LOT of memories and milestones associated with our tools that tell a story of how we started and when we decided to officially create our business. This taught us a big lesson on how to invest in tools wh
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