While I'm working on some new hats for a sale I'm gonna have I've been sharing some of my dance music remixes over at my hat shop's website. I thought I'd post the list of the uploads I've posted over the past couple of days. I'm having a blast sharing these awesome and some forgotten and rare remixes from my personal collection.

::: Remixes Uploaded On Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

• Angel – How Could I Lie (Eddie Baez Anthem Vocal)


• Andrew Lloyd Webber – Phantom Of The Opera (Techno Remix)


• Andain – Beautiful Things (Photon Project Mix)


• Andain – Beautiful Things (Gabriel Dresden Unplugged Mix)


• Anastacia – Left Outside Alone (Jason Nevins Global Club Mix)


• Anastacia – I’m Outta Love (Mixman Mike’s Club Mix)


• Anastacia – I’m Outta Love (Hex Hector Main Club Mix)


• Anastacia – I’m Outta Love (Hex Hector & Dezrok Dub Mix)


• Anastacia – Boom (DJ Twisted Dee TP Edit Mix)


• Amiel – Another Fucking Love Song (Scumfrog Mix)


• Amber – Sexual (Thunderpuss 2000 Club Mix)

Remixes courtesy of The Hat Pit


::: Remixes Uploaded On Teusday, November 16th, 2010

• Amber – If You Could Read My Mind (Studio 54 Hex Hector Club Mix)


• Aluna – All Of My Life (Van Check And Fierce Mix)


• Alphaville – Forever Young (Remix)


• All Saints – Never Ever (Booker T’s 12 Inch Extended Vocal Mix)


• Alice DJ – Castles In The Sky (DJ Ricey & Lil John 850 Breakbeat Mix)


• Alice DJ – Castles In The Sky (Alien Force Techno Trance Mix)


• Alice Deejay – Do You Think Your Better Off Alone (Nine Forty Remix)


• Alcazar – This Is The World We Live In (Almighty Mix)


• Akon ft. Stat Quo And Bobby Creekwater – Smack That (Decco Remix)


• A-Ha – Take On Me (Superior Techno Remix)


• Acen – Window In The Sky (Ninos Brighter Day Mix)


• Ace Of Base – The Sign (Ultimix)


• Ace Of Base – The Hits Remixed (MegaMix)


• Abigail – Falling (Nic Mercy’s Uplifting Club Mix)


• Abba – Dancing Queen (Club Remix)


• 808 State – Pacific (Grooverider Remix)


• 808 State – Cubik (Victor Calderone Vinyl Remix)


• 20 Fingers & Gillete – Mr. Personality (Tainted Love Mix)


• 20 Fingers & Gillete – Mr. Personality (Groove Mix)


• 20 Fingers – Short Dick Man (Club Mix)


• 4 Clubbers – Children (Future Breeze & Junkfood Junkies Remix

Remixes courtesy of The Hat Pit

Be sure to follow my twitter @hatpit or subscribe to this blog for more remix posts and new item updates in my hat shop. Also keep an eye out for that big sale post I'm gonna post soon.

Just wanted to let everyone know I now have an official twitter account for my hat shop. You can now follow me on Twitter @hatpit for up to the minute updates on new items and other news concerning my little hat shop.

The Hat Pit @ WWW.HATPIT.COM is off the chain this summer with random free beanie giveaways. No purchase is necessary to win. All you have to do is follow @madhatter7zero, the owner of The Hat Pit and hat maker who makes these awesome beanies and you may be randomly chosen to receive one simply for following and helping to support this 1 man gay owned business.

If you are chosen as a winner simply pick your color from the list below and DM or send me, @madhatter7zero, your color choice and I will get your hat made and get your mail info after your hat is finished. That is all, and I thank each and all of my followers for hanging around and helping me get the word out about my little hat shop. Thanks!!!!



Top row colors: Auburgine, Yellow, Cranberry, Linen.
Second row down: Light Taupe, Antique Taupe, Paprika, Greymist.
Third row down: Mid Green, Dark Olive, Red, Soft Blue.
Bottom row: Black, Dark Country blue, Brown, Greybeard.

Each one of these hats is crocheted by @madhatter7zero. Please tell your friends about The Hat Pit. Thanks for your support and keep following. You might win one too.

@scottfinn you are the winner of this months giveaway.



Top row colors: Auburgine, Yellow, Cranberry, Linen.
Second row down: Light Taupe, Antique Taupe, Paprika, Greymist.
Third row down: Mid Green, Dark Olive, Red, Soft Blue.
Bottom row: Black, Dark Country blue, Brown, Greybeard.

Enter To Win One Of These Cool Beanies From The Hat Pit

It's time to enter for The Hat Pit July 2010 free beanie monthly giveaway. A quick note: I've moved the giveaway date to July 12th, 2010 in order to give more people a chance to enter the drawing.

To enter for the drawing for a free beanie from The Hat Pit do one or all of the following... Note: each entry opportunity will put your name in the drawing once.... so if you do one thing you'll get your name in the drawing one time. If you complete multiple entry opportunities you'll increase your chances by getting your name in the drawing for each requirement you fulfill. I will be using Random.org to determine the winner from a numbered list of people who enter.

• Entry Opportunity #1 - On twitter: Follow me!! If your not already following me on twitter go to my Twitter Profile Page and follow me. After you follow me leave me a comment on this post with your twitter name and a message letting me know you are now following me on twitter. Once I get that message in my comments I will add your twitter name to the drawing.



• Entry Opportunity #2 - On twitter: Copy and tweet the following message (without quotation marks) to your followers..... "RT @madhatter7zero Enter to win a free Top Dawg Beanie from The Hat Pit http://bit.ly/9imqKR". You must copy the message exactly as written otherwise I won't know that you have entered the drawing.



• Entry Opportunity #3 - On Facebook: I want more fans on Facebook. All you have to do is go over to The Hat Pit Facebook Fan Page and click the "Like" button at the top of the page to become a fan. Once you do that I will need you to leave a comment on this post with your twitter and facebook name or send me a direct message on twitter to @madhatter7zero with your name to let me know you fulfilled this entry opportunity.



• Entry Opportunity #4 - On YouTube: I would love some YouTube subscribers. Just go over to my YouTube Channel and subscribe. After you subscribe to me on YouTube leave a comment on my YouTube Channel page with your twitter name and a good comment about my hat shop. EXTRA BONUS: If you subscribe to me on YouTube and leave a really really nice comment about my hat shop I will enter your name TWO times for this entry opportunity.

So there you are... 4 possibly 5 opportunities to get your name in the drawing for one of my Top Dawg Beanies from The Hat Pit Good luck!!

Just a quick post to let everyone know that The Hat Pit now has a facebook page. Become a fan today and help other discover your favorite hat shop.

Top row colors: Auburgine, Yellow, Cranberry, Linen.
Second row down: Light Taupe, Antique Taupe, Paprika, Greymist.
Third row down: Mid Green, Dark Olive, Red, Soft Blue.
Bottom row: Black, Dark Country blue, Brown, Greybeard.

I am excited to finally have an opportunity to show off some of the new Top Dawg Beanies I've been working on. Here are 16 of them, but I have more in other colors also. I did not know how awesome all of these colors really are until I took these hats out into the sunlight to get a photo. It is taking me longer to finish this batch of hats than I had planned but that is only because I have been lazy and busy all at the same time. Anyway I hope you like this sneak preview of the hats I'm gonna be adding to The Hat Pit very soon.

It's been awhile since I've updated this blog. The reason for that is because I have been working really hard on creating Top Dawg Beanies in all of the guys colors that I have available. My goal is to make one of them in all of the guys colors so that I can have a hat on display over at The Hat Pit in each of the colors. While it is true that I do have examples of the colors on my yarn colors page, I thought it was important to have an actual hat made in each color to give everyone a better idea of what the colors look like. I have so far gotten 19 new solid color hats made and hopefully will be finishing up the rest in a week or two and hopefully will have all of the new hats on display by the end of June or first week of July.

I have put off work on the Air Walker Beanies for awhile so that I can finish up my project on the Top Dawg Beanies. I have not decided if I am going to create a full set of Air Walker Beanies in each solid color as I am doing with the Top Dawg Beanies. Part of me says do it, and the other part of me says "just let the customer custom order whatever color they want" for those hats. I would however like to have a full set of those hats on display also, so I may go ahead and buckle down on getting a set of those created as well. Who knows, it may become a trend to have a full set of each style available in each available color on display. They say hard work pays off right.

So that is pretty much it for now. You guys will be seeing lots of cool new beanies getting posted pretty soon. I hope your all have a great summer so far.

I have been hard at work designing a new beanie that I think will be great for the guy who just always has to wear a hat no matter what the season.  It has an open stitch for air flow which means this is a hat that won't burn up your head in the summer time.  I think it would be great for summer evenings going out to the movies or wearing to the coffee shop.  It's also a great hat for windy days.    I've decided to call this one my Air Walker Beanie.  I just think it is a cool name for the style.  It is very lightweight and has a very slight bucket hat style brim.

Here are some photos to show you what this new beanie looks like.



Shown above in Blue Camo Stripes.



Shown in the second picture in the color Old Leaf which I believe is now a limited color due to discontinuation.  I'm not even sure I can find this color any more and I don't even think I have enough yarn left in that color to make another hat.... so that means when this hat sells it will be the last one I'll ever have in that color.... unless of course I get lucky and find some more.

Leave a comment and let me know what you think about these new hats.

Matthew Tweed DK Rascal Beanie - Now available at The Hat Pit.

Floyd Tweed DK Rascal Beanie - Another cool hat now available at The Hat Pit.

Anthony Tweed DK Rascal Beanie - now available at The Hat Pit.

Retro Modern Cruzr Beanie - Now available at The Hat Pit.

William Tweed DK Rascal Beanie - Now available at The Hat Pit.

Gonna keep it short and simple for this post. I added five new beanies to The Hat Pit. Go check 'em out.

I ran out today to pick up some new yarn supplies for the Top Dawg Beanies I'm making.  Some colors are old and some colors are new but they are all going to make some really cool looking hats.  Some of the new colors include Paprika, Light Taupe, Antique Taupe, and Greybeard which is a darker color grey than I have had in stock.  I know those of you who keep asking for a darker grey will be happy about that.  I tried to pick a lot of natural, earthtone colors when I went out for my supplies so I have a lot of lighter tones such as Linen, Ivory, and Antique White which are going to make some great accents against all the other colors.  I some browns, some more black because I always need black, and I also got some greens and reds such as Forest Green, Mid Green and Cranberry.  Oh and don't let me forget the blues that I got also.  One of them is a new blue color... but the name of it escapes me right now and I'm too lazy to go dig it out of my storage box LOL.  I am imagining some really awesome hats coming out of this new yarn batch.

I got my rubber stamp that I ordered from rubberstamps.net today and I must say I'm not really pleased with it too much but I must stress that it is not rubberstamps.net's fault.  I ordered a 1 inch size stamp which stamps out almost perfectly although I did have to do a little extra trim work with my scissors on it to remove some edging that appeared when pressing the stamp on the paper.... but for what I had planned to do with the stamp I just don't think this one is going to work out for me.  I had planned on making some refrigerator magnets, but the text on this stamp is too small and too hard to work with to make a clear impression from the stamp.....

So I went back to the drawing board in my bootleg copy of Photoshop 6 and made up a new stamp image in a 2X2 inch size and I am going to order a 2 inch stamp to see if it might work better.  I will report back on my refrigerator magnet stamp project later when I get the bigger stamp.

I've just added a new beanie to The Hat Pit.  It is another metro urban striped hat.  This one is the Colton Atlanta Cruzr Beanie.  The colors in this hat are Soft Blue, Royal Blue, and Brown... but of course you may choose three of your favorite colors to customize this hat as your own design.  The colors in this hat were chosen by a previous customer for a custom order.  I love doing custom hats like this.

These new Top Dawg Beanies I am creating are so awesome!!  I couldn't help myself but to show off another one.  This one is done in yellow, grey mist, and dark olive.  I am having so much fun mixing up color combinations.  I've got more great looking hats to show off so keep checking back or subscribe to this blog for updates to keep up on the new stuff I add to The Hat Pit.

Here is another sneak peek at my new Top Dawg Beanies I'll be adding to The Hat Pit soon.  I am absolutely loving these new hats.  They are so soft and comfortable.  I am currently making up a big batch of these in solid colors and 3 color stripes.  I'll get a picture of a bunch of them together soon and post it for you guys.  These hats are looking awesome!!

Here is a sneak peak at the new Top Dawg Beanies that are coming to your favorite hat shop - The Hat Pit. The phrase "top dawg" means to be the best. This beanie style is one that has been one of the most popular crocheted hat styles for men for more than a decade. I started making these in the late 90's after I bought a similar hat that was manufactured overseas from American Eagle. This hat style is one of my favorites to wear and make and I am looking forward to making lots of these in all of my best colors for you. You are going to see lots of these over the next few weeks in solid colors and stripes. This will be one of my customizable hat styles so you'll be able to order these hats in your favorite colors. Be on the look out for these in the shop soon. Also you can subscribe to this blog or add this blogs feed to your favorite feed reader to keep up on new items as they are added.

You know, when I saw a staff member over at CMFADS blantantly call one of it's customers a jackass in it's users forum I said to myself "Dude (that's me), that's not a good way to treat your customers if you want them to spend money in your advertising network".... You know what.... you call your brother a jackass... you can call your friend a jackass.... but you don't call a customer a jackass.... period!!! You just don't do that. And you know what I thought about leaving that ad network that day but I didn't. I thought maybe that staff member was just having a bad day..... that was until the experience I had with that staff member today who runs this website.

As you guys know I have recently started out on this new domain (www.hatpit.com) for my hat shop. Some of you will know that I was advertising my old website (www.hotdavid.com) which was previously home to David's Hat Factory on the CMFADS network. That domain and name for my shop has since changed. With that change I had been talking to a staff member at CMFADS to start getting the word in that I was making changes. I was advised that CMFADS only allows store type websites into it's network for activities limited to purchasing network ad's or campaign ad's.... now this was all fine for me since that is all I had planned to do in the first place...... I won't even mention that these fool's had been allowing me to operate as a publisher (with an ad widget on my previous site) and as a advertiser at the same time with a STORE SITE.

Anyway I was all ready to submit my new website, and I had done so and was waiting for it to get approved so that I could buy some advertising for it..... until this happened...... I got an email from the staff member who I mentioned had so rudely called another customer a jackass..... and this is what I posted back to him on their forum.

***************************************

To Turnip: What's the attitude about? Good way to run your customers away!



Your site: The Hat Pit was rejected.


The following reason was given: You created 3 alerts for something that clearly is not a blog? In what way is a storefront a blog?


If you have any queries about this, please create an alert: /member/alerts/new


Thanks,


The CMF Ads Team


No I will not create another alert for you to privately spout out some piss poor attitude at me dude. Aren't you the one who not so long ago called another one of your customers a JACKASS.... yes you were... in this thread... http://www.cmfads.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3960&highlight=jackass - - - you seem to have some really not so very nice ways of handling customer service.

I created 3 alerts because I was anxious to spend a little money to advertise in this network and because I wasn't even sure the alerts were getting through. Now, don't jump down my throat about that by sending me emails with snotty notes like you did. Step up your game a little bit there top dawg and handle those alerts quicker and you won't have multiple alerts hitting you in the face. Ok?

I have spoken to another staff member who told me that my website (www.hatpit.com) which indeed is a store site would be suitable for purchasing network ad's or single ad purchases on...... but not suitable for running a widget on....... and never once did I say that it was a blog..... so with the understanding that I could advertise that site but not run a widget I entered it so that I could start advertising it. I have another site at http://hatpit.blogspot.com/ which is the blog I'm using for that site and one that I have not had a chance to enter into the system here yet..... I was going to do that after I got my store site added in and perhaps got a network ad on....... but I'm opting to reconsider that now.

Here is a screen shot from a previous alert I had with Ben (Top Ten) - Read the second passage in the image....... Notice where he say's "Otherwise it's just a store. But it would be fine to use for campaigns or network ads". ???


You know what..... just nevermind it all.  Please delete everything I have associated with this ad network.  You can keep the $4.49 I have in my account.... Yes I know that amount is not a lot but with the attitude you had with me today you sound like you need it more than I do.  I don't need to, nor do I care to spend my advertising expenses on a network who has staff members who act like children and can't get their act together on their policies and communications regarding those policies.  I am finished with CMFADS.  Maybe your little mommy blogs have patience for crap like this but I don't. Goodbye.

********************************************

And so I end this post with a warning to anyone who may be considering spending any advertising money to advertise your blogs or websites with CMFADS.... You really need to decide if their nasty attitudes are worth spending your hard earned money on before you invest in whatever they are trying to do.

I am not one to bash anyone, most especially someone who I had high hopes of doing business with but you know what I think this is a good decision for my small business even though I did like their $10 network ads.  They screwed up, not me :)

I've just added a new beanie to the shop over at The Hat Pit.  This is one of my metro urban striped beanies.  I call it the Avedis Atlanta Cruzr Beanie.  If your wondering, Avedis is an Armenian name which means glad tidings.  I thought that was pretty cool.  The colors in this hat are terra cotta, white, and brown.  I think it's a cool color combo for the guy who is into deep earth tone colors.  This also is one of the hats I have available for you to customize.  You can order this one in the colors I've created it in or you can choose from these awesome colors to design your own custom cruzr beanie.

I would like to say thanks to everyone who has signed up for email updates to The Hat Pit Beanie Blog.  I got 10 subscribers in just a couple of days.  I would love more so if you haven't signed up for email updates powered by feedburner please do so and if you like you can also follow me on twitter for all the latest news on new items and contests at The Hat Pit.

I love rubber stamps.  So I thought it would be fun to order one so that I could make some refrigerator magnets to send out with my orders, give away as freebies, and stamp on my packages that go to the post office.

I created this magnet and ordered it from rubberstamps.net which is a company I have used before to order some other stamps that I've made in the past.  If you have a need for a custom rubber stamp then I highly recommend them for your stamp needs.  They offer stamps in many sizes from 1 inch square on up to huge 6 inch stamps.  I personally like the 1 inch to 2 inch sizes.  The stamp I ordered is a 1 inch stamp and I cannot wait to get it to do some stamp work with it.  I will be offering some free hat pit refrigerator magnets with this design very soon if I find the quality of the stamp is suitable (which will totally depend on how well I designed it).  I'm a little worried about the text portion because it looks a little blurry on the image and they carve the stamp precisely the way you submit it and from past experience their stamps are 100% accurate.  Let's hope it turns out well.

Oh I forgot to mention that the total cost of this stamp including shipping was only $8.90 and since I am in the business of creating custom made items I think this is a very cool and low price for a custom made stamp.  Thank you rubberstamps.net!!

THIS CONTEST WAS A FLOP! NOBODY ENTERED LOL :-(

If you follow me on twitter @madhatter7zero then you may know that recently I tweeted about having a contest to give away a free beanie and possibly some other cool prizes from The Hat Pit. Well I am very anxious to have my first contest so here we go.......
This is going to be a fan sign submission contest. I want some really cool fan signs from my followers on twitter that I can post over at The Hat Pit to show my site visitors that The Hat Pit is the most awesome place on the planet to shop for handmade hats and beanies for men.

There will be 3 winners and 3 prizes given away for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. I will be writing your twitter names on a piece of paper and drawing for the prizes.


First place prize: 1 beanie of choice from The Hat Pit, and 1 Hat Pit T-shirt.

Second place prize: 1 beanie of my choosing, and 1 Hat Pit T-Shirt.

Third place prize: 1 beanie of my choosing, and 1 Hat Pit T-shirt.


All you have to do to enter the contest is tweet on twitter about this contest and submit a fan sign. That's it! That is all you have to do. There is no purchase necessary to play in this contest.

If you don't know what a fan sign is just google it.... but basically you grab a sheet of paper and you write something like "I Love The Hat Pit @ www.hatpit.com" on it and then you take a picture of yourself holding that paper with your note on it.... and that is how you make a fan sign.

The deadline for your fan sign submission will be Monday, May 31st, 2010. After that date no more submissions for the contest will be accepted, although you may still submit your fan signs to be added to the collection.

Follow the steps and rules below to enter the contest.

• 1. If your not following me on twitter then go there now and follow me!
• 2. Make your fan sign and make it a good one.
• 3. You may write your twitter name on your fan sign.... something like "@blahblahblah likes The Hat Pit" and you must write The Hat Pit's website address - WWW.HATPIT.COM - on your sign.
• 4. Your fan sign photo image must be at least 1024 X 768 pixels in size, but the bigger the better.... in fact use the highest resolution your camera will allow. I may want to print your fan sign (seriously) and hang it on my studio wall for inspiration and motivation.
• 5. Got your fan sign ready to submit to me? Not so fast yet buddy!! You need to tweet the following message to all of your twitter followers to let them know about the contest: @madhatter7zero Make a fan sign for The Hat Pit and win a free beanie and t-shirt. http://bit.ly/aqe9Sw
• 6. Finished tweeting? Great!!! Now attach your fan sign photo to an email and send it off to thehatpit @ gmail dot com with the following information: Your first name and your twitter name. It would help if you put in your subject line "Fan Sign Contest". It will help me process your entry faster.
• 7. BONUS!! - Post your fan sign on your blog and blog about this contest and I will add your twitter name two times to the drawing to increase your chances of winning. That means your name could possibly be drawn twice and you could win two prizes. Be sure to send me a link to your blog so that I can check it out when you submit your fan sign to me.

And that's it!

Remember the deadline for your fan sign submission is on Monday, May 31st, 2010.

The drawing will be on Teusday, June 22nd, 2010.

Ok what are you waiting for? Go make your fan sign!

I am finally getting around to setting up an official blog for The Hat Pit and this is it. Welcome!!

For those of you who don't know, The Hat Pit is the new spin off of David's Hat Factory which was a hat shop I operated for about two years online starting sometime in 2008. Well it is now 2010 and I've decided that it was time to step up my game a little bit and really put this business into motion..... but I'll save that story for another post when I have more time to write.

For now I would just like to welcome you to this new blog and let you know that this is where you can keep up on all of the latest news concerning my new hat shop - The Hat Pit.