I'm not much of a writer or should I say Blogger, but was informed that ThePunkyPup had to have one. So here it goes. And I will apologize right now for all the bad grammar and typos you all will have to put up with while reading this and any future blogs. So please bare with me.
Since I tend to ramble on and on about things I'll spare you my life history and will do my best to keep these blogs short and to the point.
So here is how The Punky Pup came about:
We have been planning this store ever since we got our first Chinese Crested Dog, Mr.Crowley over 3 years ago. We started making him clothes by sewing punk rock patches on his little black t-shirts, then started deconstructing vintage concert tee's to fit his little naked bod. When we adopted another Chinese Crested - Riff Randell - from Crest-Care 2 years ago, hunching over a sewing machine to sew clothes for two little dogs became daunting and back breaking, but my little punk dogs still needed to have cool clothes. I let my fingers do the walking on the wonderful World Wide Web and ended up making lots of great connections. Living in NYC and always around amazing creative people, we made some connections off the web as well. So after a long time of networking on and off the net we had enough resources to finally start work on the online store.
Now we are going full throttle and growing more and more everyday. We have vendors/manufacturers/artists contacting us now, instead of us hunting them down. That's pretty sweet. If we were rich, the store would be twice as big but we are more than happy with what we have so far. Don't worry though, we are not stopping there. We are still getting new shipments of new product in almost every week. Expect lots more new stuff for the winter like coats, sweaters, hoodies and boots.
This blog is getting longer than I hoped, sorry. So keep reading.
The Punky Pup's goal is to be the pet version of my favorite neighborhood clothing and accessory haunt Trash and Vaudeville on St. Marks Place here in NYC. Trash is too punk to have an actual website, of course.
Other than just selling the coolest pet fashions out there, The Punky Pup is also working with NYC rescue groups and organizations. We want to use this store as a tool to educate the masses about making the world become a No Kill universe but those details will be in another up coming blog.
We already have some punk band logo dog t-shirts available (Sex Pistols, The Clash, Blondie, Misfits and Social Distortion). Don't worry, we are not stopping there, lots more band logo dog tee's will be coming soon. Keep checking back.
And finally I have to plug my favorite Magazine in the world: Paw Print Mag, the coolest little pet magazine by Christopher Ameruoso. Here you can see our very first full page ad made by my amazing, talented and very patient boyfriend Kevin. Look to your left.
Last but not least.......the person responsible for designing the killer Punky Pup logo is my friend Chris. He totally read my mind when I gave him the vague description of what I wanted. He must be psychic or something. People always compliment and ask who designed the logo. So a big thank you to Chris is in order.
Ok, enough already with todays blog.
I promise the future blogs will not be this long. Good thing I didn't put down our life history and interests, right?
Thanks for listening,
Julie
ThePunkyPup
Since I tend to ramble on and on about things I'll spare you my life history and will do my best to keep these blogs short and to the point.
So here is how The Punky Pup came about:
We have been planning this store ever since we got our first Chinese Crested Dog, Mr.Crowley over 3 years ago. We started making him clothes by sewing punk rock patches on his little black t-shirts, then started deconstructing vintage concert tee's to fit his little naked bod. When we adopted another Chinese Crested - Riff Randell - from Crest-Care 2 years ago, hunching over a sewing machine to sew clothes for two little dogs became daunting and back breaking, but my little punk dogs still needed to have cool clothes. I let my fingers do the walking on the wonderful World Wide Web and ended up making lots of great connections. Living in NYC and always around amazing creative people, we made some connections off the web as well. So after a long time of networking on and off the net we had enough resources to finally start work on the online store.
Now we are going full throttle and growing more and more everyday. We have vendors/manufacturers/artists contacting us now, instead of us hunting them down. That's pretty sweet. If we were rich, the store would be twice as big but we are more than happy with what we have so far. Don't worry though, we are not stopping there. We are still getting new shipments of new product in almost every week. Expect lots more new stuff for the winter like coats, sweaters, hoodies and boots.
This blog is getting longer than I hoped, sorry. So keep reading.
The Punky Pup's goal is to be the pet version of my favorite neighborhood clothing and accessory haunt Trash and Vaudeville on St. Marks Place here in NYC. Trash is too punk to have an actual website, of course.
Other than just selling the coolest pet fashions out there, The Punky Pup is also working with NYC rescue groups and organizations. We want to use this store as a tool to educate the masses about making the world become a No Kill universe but those details will be in another up coming blog.
We already have some punk band logo dog t-shirts available (Sex Pistols, The Clash, Blondie, Misfits and Social Distortion). Don't worry, we are not stopping there, lots more band logo dog tee's will be coming soon. Keep checking back.
And finally I have to plug my favorite Magazine in the world: Paw Print Mag, the coolest little pet magazine by Christopher Ameruoso. Here you can see our very first full page ad made by my amazing, talented and very patient boyfriend Kevin. Look to your left.
Last but not least.......the person responsible for designing the killer Punky Pup logo is my friend Chris. He totally read my mind when I gave him the vague description of what I wanted. He must be psychic or something. People always compliment and ask who designed the logo. So a big thank you to Chris is in order.
Ok, enough already with todays blog.
I promise the future blogs will not be this long. Good thing I didn't put down our life history and interests, right?
Thanks for listening,
Julie
ThePunkyPup
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