Halloween Costume Contest 2014!
So much fun! Halloween has always been a fun time at Townsend Leather, ans this year was the topper so far! We formalized a Halloween Costume Contest and had lots of fun with it. There were… Full Aritcle
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So much fun!
Halloween has always been a fun time at Townsend Leather, ans this year was the topper so far! We formalized a Halloween Costume Contest and had lots of fun with it. There were costumed folks all over the buildings, all day long.
There were thrills and spills (just water balloons) and the competition was fierce, and it all added up to a great fun day! See all the fun pics and the voted winners below. We had an overwhelming response of votes and it was all worth it, because the winners brought home some truly fantastic prize baskets.
Yeah, he had to explain it a lot – but when you get it, you get it. (He is “identity theft”).
He had to explain a lot too (and was the cause of the before-mentioned spills), he is an aquarium.
Of course the work didn’t stop, we know how to have fun – but we get stuff done while doing it!
We also got to enjoy another annual Halloween Townsend tradition, we open the doors to Partners families and have trick or treating all throughout Townsend. This is really the highlight of Halloween at Townsend, seeing all the kiddos in their fun costumes. We had lots of kids and families come through and gather treats. These two below were real show-stoppers though!
Lots of votes came in and were reviewed and tallied and reviewed again. It was close, but four partners came out victorious!
For Funniest Costumer: Puffy Shirt Guy
For Most Creative: Lego Safety Man (woman)
For Scariest: Zipper Face Guy
For Most Awesome: Marie Antoinette
It was such fun and many of us are already planning our costumes for next year!
Last week members of the Townsend Leather family from around the globe meet together for an exciting and productive week in Orlando at the largest aviation event in the US, NBAA.
Townsend’s booth was perpetually busy showing customers and Townsend fans everything new that we have been working on and catching up with friends/customers (one and the same).
We loved having booth visitors play our interactive personality game, get their hands on the new leathers we had on display, and just sit and chat a while. We had so much leather and so much to look at, it was easy to spend a long time in the booth “shopping” for samples.
We showed some brand-new, still in R&D, not publicly available woven samples that were a big hit. As were our new collections Corked Cowhide, Fifth Avenue, and Softina. People were also drawn to our eye catching Pops of Color collections its companion Shades of Grey and our newest way to choose your perfect grain pattern – Great Grains.
It was exciting to see Townsend Leather spread throughout the exhibit hall in a few different exhibitor booths like Constant Aviation and Epic Aircraft.
And it was equally as exciting to have the ‘extended family’ there with our partners from The Leather Institute and Studio Vizto. The Leather Institute was very busy providing expertise and insight into leather care. Studio Vizto a stunning precision crafted chair on display. The chair was revered by all that passed by it, treating it like artwork – nervous to get too close.
It was all around a great show, with many deep connections made, lots of laughs and lots of fun. We love having the opportunity to spend time with customers in the busy, but still intimate setting catching them up on what’s new at Townsend and listening to their needs. We are already looking forward to next year!
We also loved seeing the KISS cover band! They were great!
NBAA, the world’s largest aviation event and one of the largest trade-shows in all of the US, is just around the corner and we are enthusiastically tending to final touches, to make this one of our best and most interesting shows yet!
The NBAA show is a highlight for us every year. It is such a great time to get face to face with some of our beloved customers and let everyone get their hands on some the exciting new (and sometimes, more-than-new – secretive sneak peaks!) leathers we have been crafting.
This year we have been hard at work listening to customers desires, getting ahead of design trends, and doing a lot of R&D to create a few new selections.
We have just recently launched three new leather collections. You may have even seen them around, but at NBAA you will be able to get your hands right on them and take home samples.
One of the most exciting featured collections is our Coked Cowhide. This spirited new leather is stunning with its unique non-directional embossing pattern, that resembles a wine cork, and it’s selection of pop colors. Its popularity has already allowed it to be chosen as a finalist for the Interior Design Best of Year in the Hospitality: Textiles category.
We will also be showcasing the subtle sophisticated beauty of our Softina Cowhide. This is a true leather-lovers leather. Supremely soft and made from the best of the best possible hides.
Fifth Avenue Cowhide is another featured new collection. As a companion scheme to our Softina, but with proprietary glaze finish that gives it a luxurious luster.
But that’s not all! We have launched those three new collections but we have a couple other selections to showcase this year as well. You’ll have to stop by our booth #1050 to see everything, but here is a sneak peak…
Something for everyone, especially the discerning designer who knows every detail they are looking for – our Great Grains selection. A grain for every taste from subtle and natural to big and bold, in some of our most popular aircraft interior colors, there is something for everyone.
POP! Looking to grab attention, make a statement, leave an impression? Our Pops of Color compilation is for you! A variety of products in an eye-poping color range. These colors will make your designs really sing!
But maybe you like something a bit more discrete, something a little more ‘in the shadows’? Our Shades of Grey collection is sultry and mysterious with its variety of products and textures all in a sensual range of popular grey tones.
Of course we won’t be alone. Townsend Leather has friends all over the world and travels with an entourage. We will be joined of course, by the experts and powerhouses of their respective fields – in leather care, cleaning, maintenance, and restoration – The Leather Institute, and in bespoke, premium design, and passion filled quality driven aviation upholstery – Studio Vizto.
If you are around the beautiful sunny Orlando area October 21-24, make sure to stop by Townsend Leather’s NBAA booth #1050 to see all the excitement we have in store!
Voting is open!
Get your votes in for one of Townsend Leather’s newest and most exciting leathers, Corked Cowhide
Interior Design Magazine’s annual “Best of Year” awards are now open for voting. Product voting begins Monday, October 6 through Friday, October 17 – as Interior Design invites architects and designers to weigh in, sharing their choices for Best of Year products across all the categories.
Townsend Leather is featured in the Textiles Hospitality category. With our spirited new leather, Corked Cowhide. Corked Cowhide is stunning with its unique non-directional embossing pattern, that resembles a wine cork, and it’s selection of pop colors.
We are proud to have a product, once again, up for a Best of Year award. We are also proud of this great product and truly feel it is award worthy. Help show your Townsend love and excitement for our Corked Cowhide by placing a VOTE in Interior Designs “BOY” awards before October 17th.
Interior Design Best of Year Voting
Vote Townsend Leather’s Corked Cowhide for Hospitality Textile
Townsend Leather is very proud of our progressive and forward thinking community. This year, the surrounding counties, Hamilton, Montgomery, and Fulton, have a shining beacon of positive-future-influence right in the heart of the area, our own PTECH school.
The PTECH program is a unique 4 to 6 year school program. Kids apply to be a part of it and only 50 from the area were selected. Entering as 9th graders, the students work simultaneously toward earning a Regents High School Diploma and an Associate’s Degree in Applied Science from Fulton Montgomery Community College — at no cost to the student’s family!
The school is working closely with 14 local business. The businesses will participate with the school, acting as mentors and providing internship type engagement with interested students.
Townsend Leather is so proud to be a business partner with HFM-PTECH and has excitedly been involved with their startup year. Various Townsend partners have been involved in the creation of the program and have attended a few of the events they have held so far, including a business partner meet and greet day.
But Townsend has an especially meaningful connection. Townsend Leather is a family business, in the creation of our business, in the leadership team, in how we do business, and in the makeup of our team. We have a lot of families, fathers and sons, husbands and wives, cousins, aunts, and so on all working together alongside each other toward Townsend’s goals. One of these super teams is our own Graphic Designer and Sample Department Supervisor, Joe and Linette Paciolla. Their son was one of the self-motivated, high-potential students that was accepted into the HFM PTECH program. Linette and Joe have been veryinvolved in the school with helping at events wherever they can, baking delicious things, and even helping to tune the music room’s instruments.
The program is focused on project-based work, so there is not the standard teacher-over-the-shoulder while students are working – in fact very little about this school is standard. The school is progressive in technology; each student was given a laptop and some kids have even remarked that it feels like “going to school at Google” because they have so much state-of-the-art effective technology equipment to aid their studies. They use this technology to its fullest striving to become a paperless environment. They also utilize local facilities like the YMCA for gym class where they engage in team-based games.
It is genuinely exciting to see such an impressive place, and the team behind it, working so passionately to create greatness in the area. Townsend has worked hard to develop a culture of problem-solving and self-motivation within its own walls and is excited at the potential greatness that will come from these kids being taught those same things at such an early age.
Townsend believes in our community and the strength, history, and wisdom of this area. The “leather-making region” has been a hotbed of craftsmanship, ingenuity, and determination for years. With the numerous leather tanneries and the enormous and ever-growing family trees that are deeply-rooted in the area, it has been easy to share and spread knowledge, experience, and wisdom. But as times changes and those opportunities become less, we are excited to see a program like PTECH picking it up. Giving students a chance to share – in real words, time and, experience – their thoughts. Bringing diverse students together to problem solve, enhance their soft skills, and build new experiences. We believe strongly this will be a positive force for our community’s future.
If you want to learn more about HFM PTECH visit www.hfmboces.org/PTECH.htm or follow them on facebook, www.facebook.com/HFMPTECH
Congratulations are in order for one of our esteemed Townsend Leather partners, Taslim!
Taslim has been studying and working hard in preparation of his recent US Citizen exam, and we are very proud to say he passed with flying colors!
Taslim joined team Townsend a couple years ago, coming to us from across the ocean with vast leather experience, education and passion. He has quickly become a go-to person on our team for solutions and expertise. Taslim is passionate about doing great work, doing it intelligently, and creating the best possible leather. And he has been able to apply that passion for greatness and pursuit of knowledge to his studies of America.
Earlier last month Taslim was able to put his knowledge to the test and take the official United States of America Naturalization Citizenship Exam. This is an in-depth and comprehensive exam of American politics, culture, history, and society – it is hard and it is likely many native-born citizens wouldn’t even be able to pass this test! (having to answer questions like, “How many amendments does the Constitution have?” and “The House of Representatives has how many voting members?” or even just “Name your U.S. Representative.” all without Google!) (Townsend Leather partners do know their US Rep though, Bill Owens at Townsend Leather). But Taslim passed without any concern, he knows his stuff!
Taslim completed the test and was honored to participate in his official Oath Ceremony. His words and feelings of that day are below…
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
“It was a special day and moment for me when I was at my oath Ceremony, was feeling proud to be an American Citizen now. For me it was a promise I made to be loyal and work hard to participate in economy/prosperity of my new land. I have been asked several times after becoming citizen how I am feeling being born and raised in different country and living now in different one. I always reply there are biological kids and adopted kids. By knowing the biological parents you always praise that they gave you birth and brought you in this world at the other hand most important job is done by those who raised with care and given opportunity to grow up and become a successful person in society. I think same way about my mother land and my new parent land.
At my Oath Ceremony I meet 50 more people who were invited for the ceremony to take oath, and they were from 15 different nationalities. They were all happy and proud. Their faces were telling me a story that we accomplished something really good.
I am very happy I am part of well organized and disciplined society, now I will travel and go everywhere with my new identity and by having my citizenship I will vote in election to participate in democratic process of land where I live & belong now. Also happy that my next generations will have more opportunities for education and work to live and serve better.
I am very thankful to my lovely wife, and my Townsend family for supporting me, to achieve my destiny.
Yaahooooo…
Cheers
Taslim”
Taslim we are all very proud of you and your accomplishments
and very proud to have you on our team!
This past weekend Townsend Leather celebrated 45 years, in a big way!
Townsend Leather had a 45th birthday blowout party on Saturday and it was a blast. There was so much to do and see and so much fun to have, it went by in a blur.
The day opened with lots of conversation and more appetizers than you could fit on a plate!, and then the party was officially opened with some touching words by President, Jared.
Jared spoke to Townsend’s storied history and how it has led to the greatness of today. Jared also spoke directly to the impact of Townsend Leather leader and legend, Terry Kucel. Terry and Townsend Leather are synonymous with each other and because he has been here since the beginning, we also celebrated Terry’s 45 years of service, words, actions, and wisdom.
It is easy to be filled with pride, at being a Townsend Leather partner, when you see events like this. It is not often you get to attend a party that is planned and organized by coworkers who are so powerfully passionate about creating such great memorable times. And are more than willing to spend hours planning, preping, calling, organizing, setting up, and decorating. But the passion for creating a great time isn’t only with the incredible Events Committee partners, it extends to everyone there. Townsend has partners that are passionate about every thing you need to make a great party. Like our in-house master carpenter quickly building a custom photo booth and games, party-patrol-people getting horseshoe tournaments going, children and children-at-heart starting singalongs, even our very own President of Townsend is also the star DJ – “D-Ja-Rad” ,was spinning some slamming tunes all day and even included music from our very own graphic designer and in-house rock star (Enertia, and on Facebook at Enertia Facebook)!
Passion is a word commonly associated with Townsend and it is always very prevalent and obvious at Townsend events like this one. This is not just a collection of people, it is a family. A family passionate about making memories, having good times, helping each other grow, and being there for each other. A family passionate about understanding where we have been and whose shoulders we stand upon. And passionate about looking forward, keeping the good times coming and being excited about where we are going.
The day continued with spectacular food catered by the famous Dinosaur Bar-B-Que,
photo slideshows,
a guessing game that featured many celebrities and world famous places that Townsend has provided leather for,
pin-the-mustache-on-Steve game,
bigmouth-beanbag-toss with Jeff game,
polish horseshoe tournament,
a magician show,
cupcakes, prizes, gifts, stickers, chocolate, swings, merry-go-round, slides, music, balloon animals…
and even an in-house made photo booth!
It was a jam packed day of fun and memories!
Jeff was happy to provide his “big mouth” for some fun with this beanbag game!
Steve was a bit less happy to provide his face and iconic mustache (or rather lack there of!), but still willing to join the fun, with this wacky pin-the-mustache on Steve game!
The magician not only kept all the kids enthralled, but the adults too!
Always one to take a unique approach, Townsend went for a variety of beautiful cupcakes in place of a cake.
With plenty of giveaways and prizes, no one had to go home empty handed.
Probably the biggest hit of the day! our very own Townsend Leather photo booth, complete with Polaroid photos and a surplus of costumes! The one with the black hair is the creator of this crowd please-er, thanks Roy for your fantastic work (and your hair looks great like that!)!
The tradition continues, a Polish Horseshoe competition was hotly battled.
All the kids received a one-of-a-kind stunning balloon “animal” from Whizzy the Clown and magician.
The day was spectacularly fun and we are already looking forward to planning and attending our 50th!
See many more photos of all the fun by clicking on the images below…
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