Yes, those are boat docks in the background and this is how this whole thing got started. We were doing some repairs to the docks, much easier when you have solid ice to stand on, and we had some leftover wood we needed to get rid of. A good friend said that it’s no problem [...]

It seems I’m not the only one who thinks that the idea of promoting the service of adding lettering to existing or pre-printed garments is a good idea. Josh Ellsworth mentioned that he laughed when he read my blog post this morning about the MI Elite Volleyball club because his already submitted article for the [...]

Thanks for all the positive feedback I’ve been getting on this series of predictions for 2010 from GroupeSTAHL people around the world. So far we’ve heard from Brian Baker, Product Research and Development, Josh Ellsworth,  Stahls’ CADCUT Direct and Ulrike Andre, Stahls’ International. Now I have a submission from David Wheatley, who has been with [...]

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and is enjoying the time between the years. I know in Europe most businesses are closed during this time but here in the US there are still a lot of busy decorators working and if you’re not busy, it’s a good time to be planning for the future. [...]

I’ve been getting a lot of requests from business owners to share marketing ideas, and, as I promised in the last blog entry, I will start with this blog entry, the 1st of three parts. I know I don’t like to read super long blogs, so I will try to keep mine short and readable, [...]

I ran across an article in an AAA (Automobile Club) publication that talked about two of my favorite subjects, classic cars and t-shirts, so I thought I would show the shirt. Not being from the West coast, I’m not that familiar with In-N-Out burger chain, but I know it has quite a cult following. And [...]

Kids play with toy tractors for fun–and you know how the saying goes: You can tell the men from the boys by the size of their toys.  (Isn’t that a t-shirt?) I do some of my best thinking when I’m working outdoors. In my world, there’s  nothing like the smell of diesel and fresh dirt [...]

A lot of people talk about their great ideas for a t-shirt and wonder how to make them happen. This baking blogger/entrepreneur I ran across on the web seems like she was successful in figuring out how to take her passion for baking and turn it into an online t-shirt business. I’m sure there are [...]

If you want to view parts of the Stahls’ ID 2009 catalog online, I just got an email from Impressions Magazine promoting their 2009 Suppliers Superbook. It features catalog excerpts from suppliers and you can flip through the book easily online. Way to save paper  Impressions! And if you’re looking for tie-dyed shirts, there’s a [...]