Who is Kathy and Rick ?

We have been happily married for 30 years and live in the small community of Spanish, located in Northeastern Ontario between Sudbury and Sault Ste Marie, situated on the North Channel of Lake Huron. In 2001, we got a little tired of retirement, but we did not want to start another retail store and the internet suited our needs perfectly.

Rick always enjoyed making his Bullet Pens and we thought the internet would be a great way to sell them. We knew this would be so different from operating a retail store which we closed when we retired in 1992. We had to learn all about computers, e-commerce, the new lingo, website designing and html and after four months figured it all out, well almost, and we created our website and started selling our Authentic Bullet Pens on-line in August 2001.

We make a great team. Rick being the artistic and production side, thinks up, designs and manufactures our products. Kathy, that's me, is the administrative side and webmaster, I run the office, make sure the orders get to our customers, that all the figures add up and maintain our website and online stores.

We both share the housework and grab meals when we can. Rick also loves to fish in his spare time, be sure to drop by Ricks Guided Fishing.

Rick is a bit of a mad scientist and he spends hours in the basement, his laboratory, inventing all kinds of new things. Many make it to our website, and well, some don't! Over the last few years, he has been very busy, adding so many new items to our product line.

In 2005, since we were so much more than Bullet Pens, we decided on a new name and logo; after all, our bullets are very well dressed!

In 2006, we changed our domain name from bulletpens.ca to awelldressedbullet.ca.

In order to continue to diversify, in 2007, we opened our Etsy Shop as well as our eCRATER Shop.

Click on any of the gallery images above, they are all clickable links! But there is so much more! Drop by our Site Map for all our other unique items!

We operate our website and online stores under A Well Dressed Bullet.

Face it, our business name Katick Supplies is easily forgotten and often misspelled. I put a lot of time into deciding on a name, before we opened our eBay Store in the Fall of 2005.

Since I am not a very creative person, I actually held a contest (with a prize LOL) with my eBay pals to come up with a really unique and easy to remember name.

From the name I chose, A Well Dressed Bullet, which I immediately loved, designing our eye catching logo was easy! I combined our catchy new store name with a bullet in a tuxedo!

For years, I used to post often on a few eBay Discussion Boards and someone who had seen our eBay Store and website for the first time commented how lovely it was that we used red in our store colors and thought this was so patriotic that as a Canadian business we used red.



I thanked her, but admitted that our official business colours since 1983 were actually black and "no-name" yellow and that since we went into ecommerce and online sales, I switched to red..... which promotes impulse buying * blush *

Shhhh, don't tell anyone, ok? LOL

We were so surprised, and kinda proud, when Dan (writer) from the head office of Maxim Magazine in New York City contacted us in 2004.

Dan, working on a story for military gear converted into various gadgets, was browsing the internet and found our website, intrigued with our Shotgun Shell Bar & Party Lights.

Ok, I have to admit, when his email first came in, I ignored it. Imagine my surprise when he called several days later. I was sure it was some sort of scam. What can I say, I have never heard of them.

I'm so glad I didn't hang up on him! And apparently Rick had heard of them! LOL Needless to say, our website received some great exposure.

Editors Note: When Rick's friends found out we were going to be featured in Maxim, they thought it was me who was being featured * blush *

In June 2006, we made a sale to a new customer Nick Pavlovich, owner of Avid Cat Store Directory. Avid Cat is a search engine for online stores. Nick is also very involved with educating and assisting eBay Store Owners.

He featured us on his blog in his first online Interview with a Store Owner article.

Thank you Nick, what a great concept, and we appreciated the time and effort you put into this. And for also getting me motivated to start our own blog.

2007

• June 14 - I joined Squidoo
• A Well Dressed Bullet Official Website was my first lens published
• July 26 - My official website lens was featured on The eBay Squidoo Blog Lens of the Day
• September 11 - I Love Avocados was my first Lens of the Day
• September 19 - I became a Giant Squid and Squidoo even sent us a cool t-shirt!
• October 12 - I reached 100 lenses * phew *

2008

• Since January - I have been listed on the Top 100 Rated Lensmasters
• March 14 - Lensography of A Well Dressed Bullet was my second Lens of the Day
• March 21 - I now had 200 lenses under my belt
• June 20 - My Avocado Lens was featured on the Giant Squid Community Showcase Blog
• July 2 - Member of the Giant Squid 100 Club
• August 21 - My Corn on the Cob Lens was featured on Giant Squid Community Showcase Blog (I think those guys are a hungry bunch! LOL)
• August 27 - My interview featured on So You Want to be a Giant Squid Blog
• September 12 - My National Pet Memorial Day lens was my third LOTD
• October 9 - became a Squidoo Greeter
• November 21 - In the 2008 Giant Squid Awards, I was honored to have My Avocado Lens nominated in the Best Cooking Lens category, My Lensography in the Best Lensography category and was truly honored to receive a nomination for Giant Squid of the Year, how cool is that!

2009

• February 11- Accepted for another term as Giant Squid Greeter!
• April 24 - I Love Avocados awarded a purple star
• May 22 - Wild Rice awarded a purple star

Interesting Facts

• My nic name on Squidoo is Pretty Bullet given to me by my squidpal, GypsyPirate
• My silliest lenses are My Squidoo Story and Squidoo Orange Guy heads to Canada

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