Wine Wing Give-Away on Beantown Bride

I'm pleased to announce a very special event going on right now at Beantown Bride, my favorite wedding website catering to Boston brides. 

Throughout the month of February, 2011, Wine Wings will be featured on special page of the Beantown Bride website.  Anybody who leaves a comment on the page will be entered in a contest to win a set of custom-engraved Wine Wings for your next wedding or event.

Visiting our page on the B.B. site will support us here at Wine on Deck, even if you aren't planning on getting married any time soon.  So check it out!  And if you DO know of a bride-to-be, please pass along the link, or a link to this post.

Here's the link (again): http://beantownbride.com/2011/02/giveaway-wine-racks-by-wine-wings-of-boston.html

Thanks for your support!
-isaac

New Product Coming Soon!

Stay tuned for a new product from Wine on Deck, coming soon!  To compliment our brain-tickling Wine Wings, we are developing a wall-mounted wine rack capable of holding up to 8 bottles of wine.  The new wine rack will be approximately 4 feet tall, and be composed of a same gorgeous laminates that we make for our Original Wine Wings. 

The new wine rack will be cut on our recently refurbished and upgraded band saw, allowing us to use an elegant, S-shaped design.  The new wine rack will be ergonomic: wine bottles will lie flush against the wall.  It will also take up no floor space, as it will be wall-mounted.  Stay tuned for more updates, and pictures of prototypes.

Wine Wings win inclusion in the Green Bride Guide's Green Vendor Directory

I'm pleased to announce that Wine on Deck has been included in the Green Bride Guide's Green Wedding Directory of pro-planet vendors. 

Visit our founder's woodworking site

Yes, by "our founder" I mean me, Isaac D. Van Wesep.  I founded Wine on Deck, Inc. in June 2010, just four months after I bought my first woodworking tool (a Bosch router) and plunged into the world of furniture making.  Wine on Deck's Wine Wings are a big part of what I do every day.  But when I'm not making Wine Wings (or marketing them), I'm learning about furniture making as fast as I can.

That means reading a lot of books - about finishing, joinery, designing all types of furniture, the cellular structure of different wood species, tool sharpening...and the list goes on.  More importantly, I make furniture, both for my family and for clients.  To date, I've made three bookshelves (my earliest pieces), two small tables (also early work), a few aquarium stands (using traditional frame-and-panel cabinet construction), two pairs of loudspeakers (in process as I write), and - currently - a chest of drawers. 

Our first eBay sale!

Wine on Deck is growing every day, thanks to our friends and family.  And we're gradually seeing online purchases coming from people we don't know!

Yesterday, I added an eBay listing to our range of shopping channels.  Today, we got our first sale!  Of course, since the sale was on eBay, 10% of the sale price of our customer's purchase went to support the EcoLogic Development Fund, based in Cambridge, MA.

We're Donating 10% of All Ebay sales to the EcoLogic Deveopment Fund

Wine on Deck's Wine Wings are now for sale on Ebay - and as part of our mission to nurture our neighborhood & planet, we're donating 10% of our Ebay sales to the EcoLogic Development Fund, a Cambridge, MA-based charity organization.  From their website: "EcoLogic works with communities to foster sustainable livelihoods and protect biodiversity.  We aim to conserve unique landscapes in Central America and Mexico by putting poor, rural communities in charge of managing local natural resources."

EcoLogic's mission reflects an important value we hold at Wine on Deck, Inc.: promoting the local management of local resources, and compelling resource managers to adopt sustainable practices by voting with our dollars.  Normally, our vote is with dollars used to purchase raw materials.  This time, the dollars are coming from sales of Wine Wings.

Every time you go on Ebay and buy a Wine Wing (or two!), you'll get free shipping, and 10% of the total sale price of your purchase will be donated directly to the EcoLogic Development Fund, through Ebay. 

To buy Wine Wings on Ebay, visit our online store here.

The Taste Spot - A fun online food & cooking resource

I recently came across The Taste Spot on Twitter.  I visited the site and watched some fun cooking videos.  the host was fun to watch, and there are a LOT of good recipe ideas in the archives.  Like to watch food cooking?  Visit The Taste Spot!