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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
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 Posted - Jan 24 2009 : 07:25:09 AM
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in purchasing any of my designs before the Feb. 10 CPSIA deadline for testing? I can't afford to have them tested, although I am 100% sure they are lead free, and until the law is changed, I won't be able to sell. If anyone is interested, let me know and I'll post a link to pictures, prices, etc. I have let my stock dwindle on the STF site, so there are very few things posted there, but I have closets full at home. Thanks,
Farmgirl Sister #98
Check out my new online store
http://www.shopthefrontier.com/VFstore/index.php?manufacturers_id=79&osCsid=6be4b25bf9555031c6e2e86bbde23dba |
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
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Posted - Jan 24 2009 : 08:52:40 AM
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Sherri,
I a, forwarding this out to the Prosserfarmchick chapter...I would challenge other farmgirls to forward it to anyone they know.
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
http://farmchicksfarm.blogspot.com/
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
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Mountain Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
806 Posts
JoAnn
Colville
Washington
USA
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Posted - Jan 24 2009 : 09:37:40 AM
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Sherri, There was a story this Wed. in our local paper that thrift stores got a reprieve from the law and will be able to sell used children's clothes so maybe there is hope that they'll change the law for small business. Here's the link http://www.statesmanexaminer.com/content/view/10515/60/
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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
3557 Posts
Diana
Orofino
ID
USA
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Posted - Jan 24 2009 : 10:03:21 AM
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Sherri Your things are great but I can only wonder that are you using new materials? I am sorry I have not kept up with this no little kids to buy for any more but in the day I would go to a thrift store or two. But if you are making your items out of new materials does that not give you the edge as you would have content and place of manufacture of the raw materials. I know a ball of yarn has the dye lot and manufacture listed is this not good enough for your special made things. On your tags you could have yarn by ABC company 10% wool 90% cotton.
Just a thought. Again I have no knowledge of the whole CPSIA thing.
This really sucks if you can't find away around the whole mess.
Diana
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
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Posted - Jan 24 2009 : 10:24:12 AM
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Yes, I use new materials plus a few recycled jeans - but it doesn't matter. After the second deadline in August, they require component testing of the finished garment - which by the way, DESTROYS the garment! Obviously this was meant for mass produced items, not one of a kind things like most crafters/artisans create. Between Feb. 10 and aug 10, they require a GCC, General Compliance Certificate, which certifieds you have tested your item for lead using a RFX I think it's called - a gun which you can rent for the bargain price of around $2000 a week. YOu can also hire someone to do it for you, for $5 a component - read - $5 for each fabric, thread, trim, button, etc. contained in your garment. Can you imagine how much it would cost to test one of my crib quilts? Anyway, it's a moot point - after Aug. 10 it all has to be third-party tested for pthalates - something that they add to make plastics pliable (makes no sense with fabric, yarn, etc.) which there are only 4 places in the US that will take on small manufacturers for testing, all in the NE, and those tests are about $325 per component. Please everyone PRAY that they will revise or repeal this ridiculous law so that it doesn't sink all of us home businesses. No, don't just pray, please contact anyone who listen to you about it - congressmen, radio stations, celebrities, attorneys, neighbors, grandmas, - everyone - it's called HR4040, the CPSIA - the Consumer Protection Safety Improvement (?) Act - brought about by the lead found in the toys from china last year. Let's get rid of Chinese toys - then - don't cut off the head to spite the face.
Farmgirl Sister #98
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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diana
Orofino
ID
USA
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Posted - Jan 24 2009 : 1:36:40 PM
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Thanks for the info what a bad law I will write my congressmen.
Diana
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rabbithorns
True Blue Farmgirl
544 Posts
Allison
Fort Scott
KS
USA
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Posted - Jan 24 2009 : 10:31:09 PM
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Please read my new post.
I have been studying this issue and have a legal background and want people to not worry.
It's badly written, but it's not hopeless. It's in the first stages of being fixed. So many sellers are panicking and I feel so badly that they are hurting and worried. I don't want to start huge debates about law, but it is quite a malleable process right now and nothing about this law is fixed yet.
But it is helping that folks are writing and calling their legislators. They are listening.
http://www.rabbithorns.etsy.com & www.wayofthewife.blogspot.com |
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