The Return

The mighty fez making gears are slowly creaking back to life! We ran the embroidery machine through a series of tests this weekend and all seems well. Soon we will have our other equipment sorted out and I can get back to making fezzes in the fevered clip we have become accustomed to. We are starting with covering a few back orders from just before our move and attending to a couple of special projects that wehave to keep on the down low at the moment.

Once we get into the swing of things our first big focus will be creating new designs for Tiki Oasis 09 August 13-16 in beautiful San Diego!
So watch this space for updates or better yet, join the Fezorati network and get the inside scoop!

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Down Time

We will be shutting down operations for the rest of the month as I continue to reorganize and rebuild in our new home and Joe goes off on a cruise to Italy... bastard. Any orders placed after tomorrow will not get shipped until Joe returns around June 8th.

I however, will be hard at work trying to get everything set back up in our new place. Once that is done I will get busy making fezzes again. I apologize for the disruption. Like I said before, we have some really exciting plans for the future and the wait will be worth it.

Fez in the Wild: Tiki Bar TV party

In the middle of all this upheaval we actually managed to get out and be social for an evening. A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of attending the Tiki Bar TV 4th Anniversary party. Since I have been so distracted with the move I have been remiss in posting photos of the event. So now thru the magic of the computer internets I bring you other people's photos of us and a few of our fezzes!


First up is a great photo of the Fez-o-rama gang (Becky, Joe, me and Maya) surrounding Tiki Bar TV's Johnny Johnny. Joe is wearing the Fez-o-rama Fez while I am sporting one of the official Cult of the Eye™ fezzes. You will notice that Johnny Johnny is not wearing one of our fezzes at this point. Don't worry, that was remedied before the evening was over.



Here we have a shot of myself with Mr. Ambassador and Ivan Ivan wearing the Mr. Ambassador fezzes I made exclusively for Mr. Ambassador. I hope to produce an official Fez for the Peoples in the near future.


Next up we have this fantastic photo of Hulahoney taken with Johnny Johnny wearing his *NEW* fez. This is one of two prototypes we made for the party.


...and another one of Hulahoney's photos, this one with Joby -our good friend that sent in photos from the last Tiki Bar TV party he attended. This year he is wearing one of the Robot Overlord Fezzes.

Here is one taken at the Polite in Public photo booth. That was a fantastic set-up and the photos look great.

Thank you to the people whose photos I have re-posted. I will add more as I get to them.

The Move Continues

Our long slow move back to our old place is progressing... well, slowly. I feel remiss in not having something of value to post regarding fezzes. My mind has been so focused on the move that I have had little time to consider the blog. I have been working on new designs when I have the time so once we are situated I will be able to get back to the core theme of this blog.

On a side note, I have been working on setting up a new website to share our enthusiasm about fezzes with others. The bare-bones site is almost ready to roll. If you are curious and would like to be invited to see it now, drop me a line.

Finally, if you are headed to the Tiki Bar TV party this Saturday look for us. We'll be wearing fezzes and I should be easy to spot... I'm a designated driver so I'll be the sober guy.

On the move again...

Damn life just keeps getting in the way! If you have been a long time reader of this particular blog then you may remember the gap in productivity nearly two years ago as we moved into our house and installed a new floor for our fez workroom. Well... just as I was hopping to get back into production we are moving again. The good news is we are actually moving back to our old workspace so no need to lay a floor in an attic. The bad news is that the next month will continue to have little to post about as we shove our lives into boxes and tote them to another city.

Once we are situated and reorganized we will be back to work on fezzes and we have a number of really cool things planned. So once again we thank you for your patience and we hope to be back to producing ridiculous hats soon.

Return to work

Ok, time to make some fezzes! Things have been a little slow on the InterWeb front. We've been raising money for cancer treatments, dealing with the day gigs and even coming to terms with some major life changes. However, despite what it may look like on the outside, we have been working on bringing new things to Fez-o-rama. We have some new equipment to learn and develop that will give us all sorts of neat new things to do with fezzes. We're starting work on a new website with a more dynamic shopping system (this is going to take me a while to wrap my head around) as well as a social site for fez based fun.

Currently I am working on wrapping up the last few Dance-a-thon Donation Fezzes and prototyping a couple of private fezzes that I'm really excited about. We've also booked our rooms and vending slot for Tiki Oasis 9 and I plan to debut a number of new things at that show!

So please be patient, you may not see much right away be we are working on a lot of neat things for the next few months.

We survived another Dance-a-thon

This past weekend was the 24hr Cancer Dance-a-thon that I have been yammering on about for the last few weeks. Well after all was said and done the event raised $129,419.11 and our team pulled in $21,560.06

Thank you to everyone that supported us in this worthy endeavor. You can learn more about the event at http://www.danceathon.org

There was also a nice write-up in the local OC Register as well as a photo of yours truly dancing with my wife and Fez-o-rama sales rep, Maya in the slide show.

If you look really closely you can see our teammate Deech wearing a fez in the top right corner...

Ok, now it is time to get back to work on fezzes.

Last week to fight cancer & get a fez!

Only 10 days left until Maya, Joe and I are joining 26 of our closest friends and 31 other teams to dance for 24 hours and raise money for the City of Hope Hospital!

So how can you get in on the fun and fight cancer?
Why, by getting yourself a new fez!

Only one week left to donate money AND get one of 4 Special Edition fezzes that we are offering to you for free! - including the return of the rare Maroon Atomic Fez! All you need to do is donate some green to fight cancer! Just jump on over to our web site and learn more!

I understand that times are rough and that the economy has hit us all. In fact we are forced to move once again because of the downturn but that doesn't mean we can forget about cancer because it sure as hell won't be forgetting about us. That is why we've decided that instead of simply begging for donations we're going to reward your generosity with some spiffy new headgear!

Act now before it is too late!