Comments on: Show and Tell and Save Handmade!

By: CPSIA Update - Exemptions for natural materials proposed : Eco Child’s Play

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:09:47 +0000

[...] bloggers have started a Save Handmade meme in response to the low numbers of votes and petition signatures on the CPSIA protest sites. Please [...]

By: Lotta

Lotta — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:11:15 +0000

I think I’m ok as long as I don’t make anymore children’s items. It’s just too risky.

But it’s a damn shame for people that are making natural wood products. Hoping they can find some way to modify it to help handmade artisans stay in business. Perhaps requiring a materials used declaration in lieu of the expensive testing?

Either way – if you are selling handmade children’s toys get thee an LLC. Otherwise, if you are sued they can take your home and personal asset’s versus the LLC’s.

Lottas last blog post..Red Velvet Cake Button Ring

By: mothergoosemouse

mothergoosemouse — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:48:52 +0000

Tracy, check out the Handmade Toy Alliance site and their link to the National Association of Manufacturers’ Petition to the CPSC: http://www.handmadetoyalliance.org/Home/our-proposal-to-modify-the-cpsia

The problem is not with the objectives of the law, but the means of demonstrating compliance. These organizations have outlined detailed alternatives to demonstrate compliance – ones that won’t force them out of business.

By: mom101

mom101 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:54:37 +0000

Oh Tracy, I think you're missing the point. Priority 1: Children's safety Priority 2: Protecting the items, artisans, and industries that never caused any harm in the first place. It's not about different safety standards, it's about different accountability measures. mom101s last blog post..You pick the tree Thalia. Any one you want. Aaaaaany tree at all.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:43:07 +0000

*ducking*
I choose protecting children over handmade gifts any day.

Sorry to hear about the businesses failing, but I would be even more sorry to hear of an ill child.

By: ashley

ashley — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:48:04 +0000

I'll do it right now. I love all the handmade things I bought my daughter off etsy for Christmas. ashleys last blog post..My Girl.

By: Amelia Sprout

Amelia Sprout — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:43:54 +0000

I finally got my post about it all up. I can't imagine childhood without all of the wonderful hand made things available for kids. Next I've got to contact my senator (while we work on figuring out who the other one actually is) and congressman. Here is hoping that the little guy wins this one. Amelia Sprouts last blog post..Christmas Redux

By: apathy lounge

apathy lounge — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:24:12 +0000

I'd put my handmade glass bottle and vintage photograph snowmen(and women) on Etsy if I thought they'd sell. Or if I could make enough of them. apathy lounges last blog post..It was great, but I'm glad it's over

By: Karen Sugarpants

Karen Sugarpants — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:27:46 +0000

I stumbled your post and I’m sure we will address this over at Craftastrophe (we’ll likely point visitors here since you summarized it so well!) Great post Julie!

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:50:35 +0000

My heart sank to read Karen’s “Please do all that you can.” I have nothing but sympathy for the people who got into this sort of work to do well by doing good, only now to hear the voice of officialdom say “we don’t want you” and to have to hope and plead for a reprieve.

As happens so often these days, I recall the trial scene in “A Man For All Seasons” where Sir Thomas More, found guilty of high treason, gives his final statement: “I am the King’s true subject, and I pray for him and all the realm. I do none harm. I say none harm. I think none harm. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, then in good faith, I long not to live.”

Ask yourself how we got to the state where someone selling something to a willing buyer, something that’s never been shown to be harmful in any way, is up for a vote.