Be sure to bookmark the ones with the products and services you need for business, school, home, family, holidays, celebrations, organizations, birthdays, & anniversaries, all year round!
At the end of this list of links for the software, web design, music, CDs, DVDs, and miscellaneous small&home-based businesses of kosaks — and their families and very best friends— is info on how yours can be in the KOS KATALOGUE bigbook too!
Now, onward to the Katalogue department[s] of the day:
In case of difficulty getting kosmails thru’ to vendors, some work-arounds in this diary & its comment thread may be useful.
Software and Webdesign
- 2thanks: William and his wife, Beth, write, edit, create graphic designs, and maintain web pages. Beth creates beautiful logos, banners, restaurant menus, etc. Please kosmail 2thanks if you need any of these services, or contact Beth directly at Dovetail Designs.
- asterkitty / Alexandria Levin can help you with professional website design and development. She writes, “I create custom websites based in HTML5 and CSS. Most of my clientele are in the arts, non-profits, small businesses, and education. My rates are super-reasonable.”
- beverlywoods makes affordable websites for musicians and artists, small businesses, and nonprofits. Contact her through Kos Mail.
- Brainwrap Web Design has been designing, developing, hosting and maintaining websites for businesses throughout Michigan and beyond since 1999. It is run by Kossack brainwrap who is best known here for his GOP Rape Advisory Chart.
- Breakthru Software provides multi-media software for audio and video management in performance venues. Typical applications include: theater; in-store and public venues with music and announcements; amusement attractions such as haunted mansions or museum displays; solo mobile entertainers such as magicians or public speakers; or really any audio production or project. Run by Kossack CitizenOfEarth.
- citisven specializes in helping small businesses, organizations and individuals set up WordPress websites that are quickly designed, affordable, and easily editable and navigable by the client upon launch. Contact him and get connected!
- k9disc can help you put up a website to sell your wares.
- Moonlight Design Studio does graphic and web design for small businesses with an emphasis on community. Kossack baspringer runs it and has written about some of her work for Small Towns Wisconsin here.
- Patrick St. John is a web & graphic designer based out of Boston specializing in progressive non-profits, political candidates, and small businesses. Firm is run by Kossack Liberaltarian.
- Project Reindeer Games has free computer games for kids. Kossack MrBigDaddy is behind this project -- read more about it here.
- Wyckoff Advertising can design and host a kick-ass website for your business. All of our sites are Optimized for Google first page. Run by Kossack wyckoff.
Music, CDs, DVDs
- Kossack beverlywoods plays hammered dulcimer. Click this link to buy her lovely recordings of Irish, Shetland, English, and original music!
- Crashing Vor's music is available here and here.
- critton hollow is the Web site of Kossack Joealan, selling CDs of both vocal and instrumental traditional music.
- Gotham Wind Symphony is "a group of 45 NYC top-flight, liberal, union musicians who've played with: Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Kanye West, Queen Latifah, Wayne Shorter, New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, etc. and have created 3 CDs worth of beautiful music, both familiar and original that sounds like free-thinking America." Kossack slooterdam is the leader and conductor!
- Lauren Mayer (kossak PsychoSuperMom) writes and performs comedy songs. Some of her work is specifically for children -- check her website for CDs. What a great gift idea!
- millionmonkeys.us is a website where you can find music by Kossack PianoGuy, including a musical in progress, "Iron and Gold", about robber baron Jay Gould and labor leader Martin Irons.
- Kossack ProvokingMeaning is a choral conductor and composer. His bio is on his website. You can find his music on two CDs. Innisfree is a collection of choral music of which the title track is ProvokingMeaning's. Inscape is a collection of his own music. Listen and be lifted!
- Saint Euphoria is the site for 1950's style sci fi/horror films, described by Kossack SaintEuphoria as "safe for kids but not made specifically for them (although kids are a big portion of the fanbase). They have screened all over the world and have a growing cult following surrounding them." Somebody get the popcorn ready!
- The Sometime Boys is a Brooklyn band that blends elements of bluegrass, country, blues, soul and jazz into very unique sound. Find them on Facebook, or on their own web site. Buy their albums on itunes, Amazon, or best yet, on CD Baby. Kossack lucid is a member of the band!
Miscellaneous
- Acme Fight Club has t-shirts with liberal messages -- also mugs, bumper stickers and more. Kossack Flint is the proprietor.
- Eileen B's Dem Swag offers progressive gifts featuring political wisecracks. She also has less-political, retro designs, including the Excelsior Poster from Friends.
- Zazzle is where you can buy coffee mugs and sleeves for electronics (iPads, laptops, etc.), coasters and more bearing art by Marko the Werelynx, an American artist living in the Czech Republic. You can get his designs on t-shirts, too!
- Ring of Fire Enterprises is the place to go for Flying Spaghetti Monster, Pirate Fish and Darwin Fish car emblems, magnets, jewelry, belt buckles, messenger bags, flags, etc. -- run by Kossack fishwars
- rserven's dazzling and compelling graphics are available on a number of products here.
- Kossack Shakludanto designs games. At that link, you will find a card game called "The Mother Lode of Sticky Gulch" and a role playing game called "StoryCards". Shakludanto is working on a new one, too...
- That Which is Good is a shop offering a variety of clothing, magnets, mousepads and other unique gifts perfect even for the hard to buy for. Themes run the gamut, from kayaking to contra dancing to bird watching to cooking...and on and on! Run by Kossack thatwhichisgood.
- College Park Bicycles and Mt. Airy Bicycles, two bicycle stores in Maryland, are run by Kossack Lujane. Mt. Airy Bicycles specializes in tandems and recumbent bikes and trikes. Healthy transportation!
asterkitty/ alexalev.com — big discounts & special sale on her glorious paintings to get her through a rough move.
elenacarlena offers gift certificates, and she & jan4insight & jtg all have t-shirts/ designs at TeePublic, the most recent ON SALE — links in the Katalogue.
jan4insight — all-February sale at her zibbit shop — coupon code KOSSACK for 10% discount.
Sara R & Winglion’s wondrous pootie-pads, & lavender/thyme for woozles (for cats & dogs, our best buds).
snoopydawg — beautiful photography & other items at 10% off to cover Charlies’ and Abby’s vet bills.
Wings — NDN Silver wingssilverwork.com , Aji’s & Wings’ sole income source. Hover on Galleries, then on Silverwork or Photography or Other Artists for click-links to see breathtaking work. Use Contact for email to commission or purchase.
Our dollars register even when our ballots don’t, so vote with your wallet for kottage industry. Let’s give small & local a good year.
GOT GOODS OR SERVICES TO SELL?
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■ shop/business name or your own;
■ your business/product contact information;
■ department[s]/category[ies] in which your business / products are appropriate to be listed (see list of kategories HERE);
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