Every year when August comes around there is a sense of excitement around BZ FurFur Headquarters. It isn’t because the kids are going back to school or because the America’s Got Talent live shows are coming up. It’s because August in Charlotte means Charlotte Pride. For the uninitiated, Pride is an annual celebration of diversity …
It being Independence Day here in the US it is a good time to reflect on how lucky we are to have the opportunity, as Americans, to run a small business and do the things that I love. Having spent the better part of my adult life working in retail and in the government I …
On June 16th we celebrate our fathers. This means different things to different people. What makes a father? It’s all perspective. For some, it’s the man who taught you to throw a baseball. For others, it’s the father figure who taught them what a carburetor was. Maybe it’s simply the person who listened, who encouraged, …
This past weekend Brian and I were able to participate in a local fundraising event: SHRED: The Finale. SHRED was founded by Vic and his wife Tara. We met Vic at a Market at a brewery about 2 years ago. He told us about his skateboarding and the charity that he and some other older …
This weekend we will be attending a local fundraising event in Charlotte, SHRED, an annual event run by a friend of BZ FurFur’s, Vic Werany. SHRED is a way for the art and skateboarding community to come together and raise money for kids with life-threatening diseases such as Spina Bifida. It’s a great cause and everyone involved is putting their best effort into creating something unique this year. You see, this is the last year for this event, so everyone wants to make something extra special for the auction.
Over the past three years of creating pieces for BZ FurFur I never really thought of myself as an artist. A maker, a creator, and a pyrographer, but not an artist. An artist is a title reserved for people who live in lofts, wear barrettes, and talk about how this piece makes you “feel”.
This past weekend we had one of our biggest events of the year: Small Business Saturday in Charlotte’s South End. The weather was great, the turnout was amazing, and we met so many wonderful new customers and vendors over the course of the day. This was the first big Small Business Saturday event we have participated in so we weren’t sure what to expect but it was an absolute blast. So what is Small Business Saturday, why is it so important, and how can you be a part of it.
Even when you are doing the job that you love it can be hard some days. Whether it is putting in late nights to meet a deadline, getting up early to get ready for a show, or having to put off that one thing that you want to do for the dozen other things you …
We here at BZ FurFur feel it is important to be stewards of our earth. That means recycling, reducing, and reusing the materials around us. This Earth Day we decided to make a piece using wood that was otherwise going to be thrown away. Our plan is to donate it to display at a local …
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