From Texas to California and back to Texas, From Entrepreneur to Company man and back, my journey to small business owner.

My journey started with my first business right out of school - which was a Lawn care business. This lasted about a year and taught me some valuable lessons. the main lesson was that I was not ready to be a business owner.
After my first business failed, i took several jobs with 1 job landing me in California. I spent 3 years in Cali before coming back home to Texas.
After moving to Dallas, TX I took a job in the corporate world, which lasted the next 16 years - during this time my passion for woodwork developed into an obsession of creating products for friends and family. I would spend entire weekends building and creating products for our home to solve our organizational needs. After a lot of encouragement from my wife, i decided to open my own custom woodworking business. We opened StoneWon Designs February 20th, 2018.
My first milestone, or lets call it an event, was that the corporation I was working for found out about my business. At this point my business was more of a side gig, but the company did not like me owning a business and quickly found a way to let me go.
Although this was a major set back in my life (never being fired before), it forced me to learn how to run a business and kicked our business into overdrive. What started out the worst thing that could have happened to me and my wife - ended up being the best thing that has ever happened to me. This was in October 2019.
From that moment on we have been steadily growing and getting bigger. This brings us to January 2020 when i hired my first employees- Hector and David, whom without I would not be able to keep up with all of our orders. I could not have asked for better and more creative employees. Hector, David, and now Trevor and I are the builders and creators of all of our products, My wife Christine handles all of the personalization and vinyl work for all of our items. In just one short year we have outgrown my 2 car garage and now have a fully functional warehouse/ office space that we run the business out of. This brings our origin story up to the present date.
 All the wood we use is FSC certified.  Most of our products are designed for the garden, home & office. When we are not in the wood-shop, we are tending our garden or trying our new designs for our home. This is where most of our inspiration comes from, for all of our garden products. Our home designs are products that serve a function or to solve an organization problem.