Author Archives: Lost Art Press

Make Your Own Dang Sweatshirt

The hardest thing we do here is apparel. No matter what we offer, people want it in a different color, style, size range or material. About 90 percent of items returned by customers are apparel, typically when a garment doesn’t fit like the buyer hoped. Rather than just dump our apparel, I decided to try…

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Soft Wax 2.0 (With a New Spokescat)

Katherine managed to make another batch of wax this week. I’m guessing she has some vet bills to pay because Bean now has a younger brother. Meet Billy! He has a bobtail, and he pretty much purrs with happiness every moment he’s awake.  He also likes to wrestle – and so does Bean. It looks…

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To (Not) Make as Annoying as Possible

We’re done tinkering with the LostArtPress.com website, and we still don’t have annoying pop-up and vibrating windows that urge you to join a newsletter or to save 10 percent on your first order or whatever. Merchants use those irritating windows because they work. But we decided at the outset of this company that we’d rather…

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A Small (& Cheap) Band Saw for Chairmaking

I’m a long-time fan of the Mississippi-made Delta 14” cast-iron band saw – and its better clones. But not everyone has the space for one of these saws. Or they don’t have the eggs to buy a used one that will surely need some restoration. For the last couple months, I have been using/abusing the…

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Last Batch of Anarchist’s Square Kits (for Now)

We just added our latest batch of 250 Anarchist Square Kits to the store. We have been boxing these suckers up for days now, and we will be boxing them up tomorrow and Monday to meet the USPS deadline for getting stuff in the mail so it arrives before Dec. 25th. The kits are great…

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