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Welcome to the Cowgirl Swank Blog! Here you will find the insights and daily activities of a Business Owner, Designer, Cowgirl, Rancher, Wife, Mother, and any other job description I may have on any given day. I will share details of my daily cap/visor creations, occasional recipes, and other things associated with our daily ranch life. I hope you enjoy reading my blog!
~Cheyenne

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Live with Jim Thompson and the Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund





Cap of the Day:  Black Cheetah HOH Military Cap with Pistol and Alias Personalization

I just love this cap! Maybe because it's so different than a lot of caps that I make. I love the fact that a lady shooter is wearing this one in New Mexico. I like my guns and have a huge respect for women who compete in shooting events.
Lots has been going on in the Cowgirl Swank world. I have been fortunate to have been in the news quite a bit lately. I was honored to be in the 2011 Ag Pride Edition of the Tri-State Livestock News (I think I mentioned this in a previous post). The Wrangler Horse and Rodeo News also reprinted the article on June 6th. I was honored to be featured in the Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund's May/June Newsletter. On page 4, they featured a little blurb about Cowgirl Swank and a picture of the brown Bronc Rider collection of caps/visors. For each one sold, $5 goes directly to the JCCF.
I was also honored this past Friday, June 10th to be on the radio show "Live with Jim Thompson". Jim has a radio show on KBHB 810 am. He covers a lot of rodeo and ag news in the area and knows a lot of people. He has known my folks for a long time. I really enjoyed being on his show. It was a lot of fun and I hope to do it again sometime in the future! Here is a link to the show in case you want to listen to it, I'm a few minutes in....."Live with Jim Thompson" - June 10, 2011.
Currently, I have 7 gals working for me in the Oelrichs area. It's nice to have that many and I will possibly be adding more in the future. We are finishing up the initial Downunder Horsemanship order early this next week and shipping it off. Soon Cowgirl Swank "Roo" creations will be available for purchase on their website and in their fall catalog. Then we start right into another DUH order for their Seattle, WA tour stop in July. Of course, on top of these large orders, I am constantly working on filling individual retail orders as well as other wholesale orders.
I have been getting quite a few orders from the articles that have been published. In fact, I had to dissuade a gentlemen from ordering 400-500 caps for delivery in 3 weeks! I had to tell him that there was just no way that I could fulfill that order at this point and time in my business. Maybe in the future! He was very gracious and we worked out something for the future.
I hope to get with a neighbor gal who has recently taken up photography (who takes amazing photos) to get some professional photos of some Cowgirl Swank products. I haven't been able to make up any samples yet.....everything I seem to make sells. I guess that's a good problem to have! :)