I’ve enjoyed being creative for as long as I can remember. Growing up, I spent countless hours drawing at my drawing board. Nowadays, I spend my personal time finding creative projects to work on.
Below is a run-down of some of my fun projects and ventures.
In 2018, I fell in love with scroll saw art after watching a YouTube video. What started as a personal passion turned into a hobby business where I make custom 3D wood art, Bourbon barrel heads, logo signs, and more. You can follow along on social media on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
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I’m a self-taught woodworker who started around 2005 when I built my first poker table using plans I found online (pre-YouTube) in my uncle’s garage (using his tools). This led to me building dozens of poker tables, bookshelves, tables, and more for myself and others.
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In 2014, I started a blog to share about my experiences as a dad and husband. I had planned on expanding into podcasting and other things but never had the time for it. At its heyday, I was posting multiple times per week. Now, I try to write a few times per year. If nothing else, I leave it out there for nostalgia.
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I love hobbies. I have a lot of them and I enjoy talking about them so much that I started a podcast in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic called My Awesome Hobby. I chatted with guests about the awesomeness and positive impact of their hobbies.
Things got so busy that I had paused production of new episodes, but I hope to get back to it someday.
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Many years ago, I wanted to find a good gag gift to give a friend who was expecting the birth of his first child. I couldn’t find anything I liked in bookstores so I wrote my own book. It ended up being a really cool experience learning about self-publishing and I still have a few copies that I give out to new fathers.
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I grew up an avid video gamer and that’s still true today. Before my kids were born, I tried to parlay my love of video gaming into several business ventures. One was a local video gaming community (before social media) and the other was a retail location that hosted video game tournaments, leagues and more.
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