Time ⏳⌚⏲ for another Eclectic Chic Boutique... 🎨🖌🔦 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🔦🖌🎨 Today’s Spotlight is on: Andy Coyle, founder of Wood-N-Thingz 🌳🔨 About Wood-N-thingzWood-N-Thingz is a company dedicated to providing top quality woodwork 👍👌 Exploring the beauty of exotic woods from across the globe 🌎🌍 Combining them with precision and care for ✨Dazzling✨ results The name Wood-N-Thingz is multipurpose, base on pronunciation If pronounced “Wooden Things,” it suggest a woodworking company 🌲 OR If pronounced “Wood and Things,” it highlight the variation of his crafts 🤩 This creative naming convention reflects Andy’s focus on elegance and functionality The products Wood-N-Thingz offer include;
“Customer suggestions and our own ideas” -Andy Coyle Andy first learned woodworking from his father 👨 who worked as a carpenter 🔨 He picked up his design sensibilities from his mother 👩 a Horticulturist 🌹🌻🌷 The lessons they taught followed with him throughout his life, and into his craft. “When I’m in my workshop, I feel my dad. I’m drawing on my mother and my father” 😢❤ The time 🕑 and care 🤱 he puts into his work is evident in all his pieces Each product is individually designed and crafted, or as Andy puts it; “We’re not a production shop, we don’t make 50 of the same thing.” 💯 While Mr. Coyle is proud of his designs, he also enjoys creating custom items “We certainly enjoy doing custom work, if somebody wanted something special” 🎁 History of Wood-N-thingzThat covers Wood-N-Thingz, but what about Andy himself? 😯 How did the good Mr. Coyle find himself in the Woodworking business? 🤔 Andy’s first foray into business began not with carpentry, but with computers 💻 Grab some popcorn my friend 🍿 as our tale begins… In 1962, Andy joined the US Air Force straight out of high school 🎓✈🇺🇸 He served his country for 4 years, maintaining the computer systems 🔧 After leaving the service, he got a job with Honeywell International Inc 🍯🤑 He stayed there for 15 years, maintaining computers for large companies 💻 Andy’s next 15 years were a 🌪WHIRLWIND🌪 While working at Drew Chemicals, he helped create a patented water analyzer 💧🔍 He worked on Wall Street 🧐🏢 as a technical manager At a Manhattan based company 🗽 he build network infrastructures for law firms After working for so many companies 💻✈🏢🗽 Andy decided to go into business for himself, founding Armadillo Services Armadillo dones building wiring, network computers, and phone systems AS has done work for some MAJOR NY Companies 🗽 (We can’t give names, but trust us; they’re BIG 😉) Andy continues to work there to this day Founding of Wood-N-ThingzQuite the busy fellow, isn’t he? 😁 Still, the question remains; ❓❓❓HOW DID HE FOUND WOOD-N-THINGZ❓❓❓ THAT story begins with his lovely wife 🙋♀ and fellow ECB Artist 🎨, Maureen She had decided it was time to leave her job as a paralegal 🖨 And follow her dream of starting her own Skincare company; 🌹 Heaven Scent Beauty 🌹 (expect an Artist Spotlight down the road) For those who’ve never started a home crafting business 🏠🎨 Time first step is to hit the pop-up show circuit Being a devoted partner, Andy was all too happy to do the heavy lifting 🏋♂ “I was the strong back and the weak mind. I still am.” 🤣 While Andy was certainly passionate about helping his wife 👫 He was not quite as passionate about self-care products 😒 To help keep himself engaged at the shows 🎪 He began making cutting boards to take with them to sell At one such show, the show runner came up to inform him; “All my other woodworkers have dropped out. You wanna set up?” Thus he truly began making ⚒ and marketing 📢 Woon-N-Thingz was born! 🎉🎉🎉 Amazing how a small turn of events can shape your life to come… Makes ya think, don’t it? 😉 Shop Wood-N-Things
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