Love Handmade? A Call to Action for All of Us

thank you so much for making us aware of this! I will send a few emails myself!

And I thought the British Government were stupid . . . I hope this act is modified after people protesting.

Thanks for the nice comments about my CPSIA post.

I really dont think Washington has begun to consider the real quantitative impact of this as it rolls through a community’s economy.

Such as…All those artisans are going have to start looking for “real” work.

I suppose it might help the day care industry, if they find jobs.

Will be passing this information along and have written about your wonderful shoppe here..

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If you use materials already labeled as safe, isn’t that okay? Like when I made handbags and purchsed snaps on ebay from a man in China, that’s probably not trust worthy but if I bought them from a company in the use that imported them, would that be okay? I can’t image what this would do to prices of supplies for sewing as well? I say, LET’EM TRY AN STOP US!!!!

There is a petition you can sign also. I got this link from zrecommends.com

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/economicimpactsofCPSIA/index.html

This law was passed because toy giant Mattel messed up on their product testing and put lead-tainted toys on the shelves! Face it, no law maker out there is going to reverse or change this law and be associated with the possibility of putting toxic products in the hands of children. Perhaps a thank-you note to Barbie is in order.

This is so horrible. What about people who sew and knit blankets and caps for babies in the NICU? Will those no longer be available to newborns? Fund raisers for school snad girl scouts. Wil they outlaw cake bakes next? What are they thinking?

I’m not so sure that I side with you on this one. Products from countries like China are pervasive and a serious concern. And I think it’s safe to say that the majority of Americans cannot afford to purchase homemade toys and products. From my experience they’re often more expensive and not widely available. But sadly Target and Walmart are everywhere. I think that this might be one of those situations where, in order to protect the masses, a segment of the population must suffer. Perhaps a side route to product safety will be implement in the States that address this very problem? Anyway, without further educating myself on this topic, I wouldn’t feel comfortable writing to my congress people. But thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Dennie, You can’t be serious. I’d rather have one well-crafted interesting toy for my child than ten brand-advertising plastic pieces of crap from Walmart or Target. They may cost the same, but I’m more interested in quality versus quantity. Why do so many people buy into the idea that we need to consume disposable plastic toys?
Let’s be educated and thoughtful consumers. When you buy handmade toys and goods you are supporting skilled artists, and America wouldn’t be very interesting if we lost those creative goods to mass-produced stuff. Additionally, many of those artisans are stay-at-home moms trying to make ends meet. Let’s not punish them by taking away that opportunity and creative outlet that enriches the artists’ lives immeasurably.

This goes beyond toys as well. Those of us in the cloth diapering whelm will be effected too. So many wonderful kids items will be put to a stop…only the big big companies, who brought in lead to begin with, will be able to continue forward in all this.
As this is currently written too it effects 2nd hand shops as well.
it is very very wide, vague, far reaching, and not well defined.
It is a sad shame.
I am still hoping as this law is defined there will be ways for us smaller unique businesses to remain.

When you contact various senators, many do not even know what they passed. They just give some save the children speal without commenting and/or realizing the impact on small biz.

Also when you call CPSC directly and get various reps…they tell you different things. In the Cloth Diapering whelm we have been told anything from they are exempt to they fall under at least 3 tests… changes when you talk to different reps w/in the cpsc.

You really should contact your senators and reps and let them know the impact on either your biz or any small biz you like.

Thank you for sharing this. I would hate to think of all the talented people that could be out of business.