Smoka's Ramblings

Tonight was the final 2 Jeeps that needed a 'redo' of the vinyl on the sides. Add to that we had orders come in from a screen printer about cutting heat press lettering for shirts and you come up with a busy night.

As I sit here writing this, my wife is at her machine laying out the lettering for the plotter. Lucky her. I asked her if she needed help and she said no. Lucky me. The process is a bit much for what is made on the lettering, but we have a deal with the screen printer that makes money in other ways. If we need screen printing, we get it cheaper and if she needs the lettering, she gets it cheaper from us. Scratching backs type of deal at its best.

The screen printer will get charged a few bucks per name, which there are over 60 names I believe. I'm trying to not be too loud and disturb my wife and she's pounding away at her machine still. Anyhow, that will help a bit as we've had to order more of the material to fill the jobs on hand.

I only have one Jeep left but that's not until next Tuesday and I have a lead on a big banner. Banners are the best. You get the best profit off of those. Well, we do anyways. We still have a credit card to pay on that has had a balance since we bought our latest machine that prints on vinyl. It's an awesome machine though, just a bit older. Go go Ebay!

Now if we could get the engraving part of the business to take off we'll be set...for now. There is always something that stares us down, willing us to buy it. The last purchase was a MPX-70 engraving machine. It's a slick little box that can engrave on necklaces and keychains. We got a fairly good deal on it and from what we've made with it so far, I'm very impressed.

We are hoping with the spring fever run that just started we can bring in a lot of money to start paying these bills off. Who knows, if we keep up with everything, we could actually make a tidy profit for new equipment purchases...weeeee!