Featured in an etsy treasury

Thanks to Kristen for featuring my awesome lamps in her treasury!
http://www.kristensteinfineart.etsy.com
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5192173

Amend the CPSIA

Currently these toddler socks are available to purchase for $3.50. After 2/10/09 the prices goes up a bit to $3940.00.

This has been the hot topic of discussion of late - not only on etsy, but elsewhere.

Many of my fellow etsyians (myself included) have added a - post CPSIA product - to our etsy shops. These high priced items will give people an idea as to what it will cost for small businesses like ours to do lead and phthalate testing on items that we create (probably mostly with products already imported into the USA).

This law goes into effect Feruary 10, 2009.

Here is a link: http://www.mondrysyknotshop.blogspot.com/

Here you will see just the tip of the iceberg - of products that you will most likely be unable to purchase after 2/10/09. This law is a complete blanket regarding lead testing and is a backlash from all of the large manufacturers not monitoring their children's products carefully enough, and too many toys containing high lead levels.

We as small business owners are trying our hardest to get this law amended to save not only handmade products, but also vintage items!

The joys of pet ownership...

At least today her poo is frozen! It makes the miserable cold almost worth it when doing doggy doo doo duty out in the yard!

Sweet Pea and Donkey have more hay for a few days, John the bunny has an unfrozen water bottle and the chickens have their temporary roof back...

Thank You!

I wanted to take a minute and thank
http://prettypeardesigns.typepad.com
for doing a wacky wednesday question and linking to my shop!
It is a fun way to get to know a fellow etsian who makes beautiful - or should I say 'pretty' - notecards. etc... and I give her a shout out today because it is her one year etsyversary!

Greek - it's what's for dinner

For dinner tonight - Pastitsio and Fasolakia - (meat and macaroni pie and green beans in tomato sauce). I got the recipes from Greek-Recipe.com. The pastitsio recipe was not very well written but I muddled through it and it came out delicious! In it you use the cooked long noodles 'macaponi' as the base layer, next - sprinkle a grated hard cheese, then - beef cooked in tomatoes, then another layer of the noodles. This is all topped with bechamel sauce and some more of the grated cheese. YUMMY! The green beans were also very tasty.

Not bad for my first time!

eBay, Artfire and etsy

I have been busy listing items on all of these sites today. On etsy - baby bibs and kids Valentine's cards, on eBay - some Valentine's gift items, and miscellaneous stuff, and on Artfire - knitted kids hats and scarves.

Manhattan Bound

I knew it would happen quickly... and there they go - the first pair of lamps - the 1930s Art Deco lamps are on their way to NYC. You just don't find lamps like this - to think that I managed to find two pairs with original shades is amazing...