Blog #1 The BEGINNING

It started in 2017 with an idea to make some extra spending money. I’m Adam, a Woodwork and Metalwork Teacher at a high school in Perth, and Anita, my wife, hadn’t worked in a few years since having kids. I had skills in fabrication and I thought, as an avid surfer, I could make surfboard racks and sell them on Facebook Marketplace.

Anita asked me to hold off so she could investigate a more lucrative market!! I thought that everyone would want a surfboard rack and that she was crazy..

In the meantime, Father’s Day was fast approaching, so I got together a few scraps of treated pine (mmm chemicals) and make a heap of beer caddies for the local dad’s in my town. Posted them on Marketplace and sold out pretty quick. Bottle opener on the side and all.

Give aways with Taj Burrow and mates

Anyway, Anita came back to me with an idea about a plant stand. I didn’t even know what a plant stand was haha. “People put plants in stands?”

She also introduced me to the ETSY marketplace, and before you know it we had our first sale. I was shocked that someone would want one of these.

INSTAGRAM POST READS: A new direction. Hairpin leg style. Let's see where this goes... Hairpin leg plant stand with chunky Radiata Pine top.

So the idea was born, we started production in our back shed, pumping out hairpin leg plant stand’s and entering the entrepreneur world.

See you in the next blog :)