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. What started as a personal passion turned into a part-time business where my wife and I make custom 3D wood art, Bourbon barrel heads, signs and more. You can follow my project updates on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
I love hobbies. I have a lot of them. I enjoy talking about them so much that I started a podcast, My Awesome Hobby. I chat with guests about the awesomeness and positive impact of their hobbies.
I’m a self-taught woodworker that got 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 14+ poker tables and dozens of other traditional woodworking projects for myself and others.
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 it’s heyday I was posting multiple times per week but I haven’t posted anything for several years now. I leave it out there for nostalgia and hopes that I might get back to it some day.
Many years ago, I wanted to find a good gag gift to give a friend that 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.
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 locaton that hosted video game tournaments, leagues and more.