Wooohooo I keep celebrating my goal, there is nothing more satisfying than this to me. Is hard to be a YouTuber, believe me I know running other channels with different themes and goals has been a challenge. However the Rose Wood Work channel is different and has allot of potential I think. Regardless is so cool to be able to do what you love to do, VidIQ has made the difference in the way I do videos it has help me immensely in my way of making videos and meet my goals. I highly suggest you take a look at it if you want to be serious about your channel.

Well now having achieve a 500 Subscriber goal (which I know is not that important now a days) the next goal is a 1,000 hopefully this will be soon enough hopefully. The views is what is my problem, I need people to view my videos and share them please do so if you like my content. Other than that signing out, got allot to do!!!!

This is amazing! After so much work through out this past 3 months trying to get the channel running back again after being absent for a while we are at 500 Subscribers. I want to thank everyone that has subscribe, like, love and had time to watch my videos. The channel is growing and more work needs to be done, but I'm very happy that everything I have done is working out, I got so much to learn and share with everyone that is watching that makes me very excited to create more content.

I have to thank several YouTubers that had influence and somewhat mentor me to get to this point. I will start by thanking VidIQ for so much guidance and support in all of the work to make the channel better, to Daniel at BeardedVikingWoodWorks for all the cool videos and teaching me how to make cool wood working projects that makes profit, every time I'm on the lives and at the Facebook Group it feels like family. To Peter Millard for his videos  at 10MinutesWorkshop that teach me how to be more precise and practical to make wood working better. To The Artisan Pirate for all the Scroll Saw Joy that he always makes it so fun and awesome to learn all his techniques. David from Make Something to inspire me every time with his fancy work. And I have many more people that I love watching on YouTube for inspiration but the list is long LOL. Anyway THANK YOU it does really means the world to me.

I will start by saying, what a week! Again I will focus about my wood working posts but, I'll say this the future looks bright because I was hopeless. So being said that now I can keep doing what I love to do and work hard every day like all the Americans that make United States of America the best country in the World.

So in another note great things are happening in my life and I'm taking every day as a good day for increasing my knowledge and learn more about wood working and other things related to that. I have this cool kitchen that needs help, so my duty is to restore this beautiful wood to at least make it look better. Is in bad condition in my opinion the color of the wood is fading out and also scratches all over the place so a big job.

I did one small sector and the difference is amazing even though there still some scratches that are hard to make them disappear. Today I will go back to this place and advance more on the job. Check out the before and after pictures to amaze you.

I've been trying to avoid the whole thing, so I'm not going to write about it. I want to keep this place focused on my Woodworking Journey, but I would like to say one thing we need to unite and bring peace to the entire World.

On another note I went to my favorite stores, grab a couple of things and also fun species of wood that I've never worked with like Zebra Wood, Cherry Wood, Mahogany and some other species. I've also found a Kreg systainer for my Kreg stuff, I really like it. Got some other things that are going to help me around the shop. I will confess though that I've spend my time at the shop making stuff.

I've spent my 4th of July making a wood project that match with the most important day in History of the United States, scaping form the news and World.
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Anyway, if there was a small project that made so much trouble it was this one. But it was not the project itself that was the problem, it was more of myself trying new things and techniques that I didn't know. However I've learned from it and I'm pretty sure that the next one that I'll build is going to be a breeze. Check out how fun this was on my video!

Is a new month with new projects lined ahead, I can't wait to make more wood working projects. I have updated my shop with new 3 projects that I haven't done videos about it but I will, because by now I can do them very well. So if you are interested on buying one of this Wood Decor please by all means check out the Shop and have fun picking one of these beautiful projects for your home.

I've gotten a couple of new tools so it's going to be fun making other things that I've been wanting to try, I'm looking forward for a fun month at the workshop.

Well, more issues now the account have limited access:

"We've noticed possible suspicious activity on your account. For security purposes, we've temporarily limited your access to protect your information until you reach out to us."

By the way limited access means NO ACCESS so keep that in mind if that happens to you, I had a link to contact them so I did hopefully I'll have a response but right now this is the situation, again this is very common with Etsy now a days due to the lack of communication and algorithm being crazy.

Listen, I understand that Etsy is trying to clean out the house, I've been an Etsy seller since 2016, Etsy has become another eBay but worst at least  eBay has more control over what they do and help their sellers the best they can. The idea of Etsy at the beginning was to have handmade products made by original people that had the ability to make things with their wisdom of whatever craft they know, this is no longer the case and now the want to regain back what an idea was once established. My opinion is that Etsy has lost control over what is permitted or not and is just a flea market braking all kind of rules.

Being said that, at this point I'm not going to keep myself thinking what is going to happen. Like I've said I'm working on more projects to post on my website which I trust and I don't have to deal with the politics and rules of a site that is unpredictable. Income is important and I found very concerning that Etsy does not care about this when it comes down to peoples account and what it means to allot of people that depend so much on the site for their bushiness to provide to them.

Check this video out about a top seller on Etsy and what happend you won't believe it.

After a long time I had the idea of having an Etsy Shop for my wood working projects, I've finally open the shop. At the shop you will find wood working projects that are mainly for sale made by only me in my wood working shop. I'm looking forward to grow my business, I think the Etsy shop is a good start since I have experience selling on Etsy.

Right now I have posted a Blue Bird House made of  cedar wood, this project I haven't done a video yet but I love making these houses for the birds to have a family. The Bird house is an easy and fun project to make that I enjoy making I've already sold several of them locally so I thought it would be great to post on Etsy and see what happens, if you are interested please don't hesitate to visit Rose Wood Work Etsy Shop I'm sure you wont be disappointment. This is another great way to support my dream to be a Entrepreneur and grow as a business owner.

NOTE: After writing this blog later on the day Etsy has suspended my account, I have no idea why but I've just appeal. Etsy is famous for this so I'm not worried, but because of this issue I've decided to sell here on my own website one less thing to worry about I rather be secure then sorrow. I'm glad I don't depend on Etsy never had so I know the drill with this situations I've seen allot of people going through this so I'm prepared. Mean while I will continue to create my wood projects to sale since I was super pump about opening the store, Etsy will not ruin my day.  06/27/2024 3:22pm

This project took me more time than I though, the good thing is that it has been a learning curve. All wood projects comes down to make your home more efficient and beautiful, all wood workers start that way by improving their homes. I had a need for a problem that I've had for a long time and I bet you do too, I'm talking about the shower mat.

Shower mats are important, they save you for a bad slippery fall in the shower. My aunt use to tell me when I was a kid that the worst accidents are in the shower, I believe it and now more than ever than I'm older. Now these shower mats are usually made out of PVC material witch is toxic to the environment when you get rid of them, then after a while if you don't make the appropriate cleaning to the mat you get mold and now you are exposed to highly toxic germs. The bad news is that most of the people buy this type of shower mats because they are the most inexpensive of the selections of shower mats in the market.

So for me looking for an alternate solution was the infamous and super expensive Teak shower mat, Teak wood is beautiful but expensive you will usually find this in a Sauna room and also as an expensive shower mat at the stores. Teak is known for its incredible durability and water resistance. Teak has a high oil content, giving it the highest decay-resistance among all natural wood products. Teak is used for boat building, yachts, exterior construction, indoor and outdoor furniture, veneer, carvings, frames, and more. So is a good wood to work with hands down, maybe in the future I will get the opportunity to work with this type of wood.

Anyway the video that you are about to watch was an example on how to make a shower mat made out of wood, the one I've done is made  with pine wood which is not the best choice of wood for this particular project since pine wood is not very fond of water, but I did get a nice deck stain that I've use to protect the wood hopefully that will give the shower mat a longer life in my shower. If it gets bad the worst thing that can't happen is that I will have to make a new one. Check the video out you will enjoy my procedure and obstacles I have encounter as a wood worker, makes me look like an apprentice but in reality I didn't planned, researched or made a blue print of my project I just went with the flow with what I had.

I have updated my Patreon page, I want to be active and try the best to bring people if they are interested in my content like behind scenes and secret projects things like that. I want to make this my job I'm very passionate about wood working and grow in to a small business. Times are hard, the World have changed but one thing I keep in my thoughts is my dream and to never give up. I think Patreon is a good platform for me to grow and keep doing what I love.

I have different tears for you to choose and in those tears there are different perks, so what ever is convenient you will choose one and from there you will have more close access to my wood work shop and myself. You are more than welcome to participate if you like to be part of the Team and navigate this journey with me, your support will mean allot to me.