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[round2racing]

Hi all,

I'm Bridget and I am a co-owner of a race team (Round 2 Racing).  Website is www.round2racing.com.  Visit and sign my guestbook!!

Anyway, I work for a construction company as a database administrator in charge of inventory and equipment and purchasing.
I bought my cutter to letter our race trailer and our race car.  I knew I wanted quite a few decals and figured it was cheaper to buy a cutter than to have it done.  Besides, I love to be creative and wanted to use it to cut stencils (I airbrush helmets, cars, bowling pins, you name it, I airbrush it).

So, I thought this would be a great addition to my hobby (or as my husband calls it, my OCD) list.

It took off, so now I am lettering for other racers, and have had a few inquiries for wall art.

Oh, how I would love for this business to take off to a point where I can do it full time.  I love this so much.
In fact, my airbrushing has taken a back seat (but only till after racing season starts).

I do a lot of benefit and charity work, mom died of breast cancer and I have survived cervical cancer.  I was diagnosed one year to the date from when she died.  I survived, so now I put into the cancer and hospice community as much as I can.

I work 50 hours a week at my full time job, 30 hours a week on the vinyl, and any other time that I am not sleeping, I work on the race car.  Luckily I have a 17 year old daughter who loves to weed and keeps the house up for us.

[prestonservco]

I cut.  Lol.

[MecH]

My computer/graphics/electronics/etc history all spawns from my dad (aka Alien). Hes a jack-of-all-trades, and i have yet to find something that he just CANT figure out. Since I was old enough to walk, he taught me everything from simple computers to full blown industrial electronics. 32 years later, he is still the most amazing man i know. So from the wealth of information that I had access to, i set out to find my niche. First it was mobile electronics, installing car alarms and stereo systems. (you know you have a great electronics teacher when you can be color blind and still install car alarms ). I absolutely love it, but theres just not enough money in it around here. Then I went to installing Dish Network and DirecTV, which was cool in its own way, but I despise the heat lol. Finally I went to work at the factory where my dad worked (Maytag). and was there for 2 weeks before deciding that I am definately NOT a factory guy, and after 6 years, i still knew it lol.

I have done graphic design/computer repair/website creation/etc for years and years and was a designer for Darkforge Graphics (www.darkforgegfx.com) until i lost my monster comp. to a motherboard meltdown. And me and my dad both have wanted to get a cutter since forever, and neither of us wanted to dish out the funds to get one.

Then came D-Day for Maytag. After 19 years of pure service, my dad was out of a job for the first time in his life. They sold the company to Whrilpool, and they simply closed the doors.

After the initial shock/stress/fear settled down, my mom (the family optimist) had the mindset of 'Why not?' and 'Now you can both do what you want, and do it together'. So after a lot of hesitation, we broke down and bought our first cutter, the copam 2500. Can you say HOOKED! We the aquired a Roland GX-24 and a HP DesignJet 500 42" wide format printer and now its like 2 big kids playing with expensive toys all day .

So we named ourselves Vinyl Visions (www.vinylvisionsonline.com) and hopefully we can make a nice run of it.