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Green Gifts Company

Re-Cycled, Re-Purposed, Re-Imagined
Unique Gifts for Any Occasion Today I started something I have wanted to do for a very long time.

I opened a business called Green Gifts Company. I am making and selling gifts using recycled items in order to do my tiny part to help preserve this beautiful world in which we live. And in starting this business, I am also committing to an organization close to my heart called The Giving Tree. I will be donating a portion of my profits to help the work they are doing there to teach children about charity.

06/10/2021

No show this weekend. On the mend from a bad back. Hopefully I will see you at Lansdale Day on Saturday July17 with some new DolliePots! Here’s a preview of one that’s not quite finished-

05/29/2021

Pennypack Mill Craft Show in Hatboro. New DolliePots!

05/28/2021

I’ll be here Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM on the ground floor. If you don’t have any other plans stop by and say hi!

05/22/2021

′′ Grandma, how do you deal with pain?"
′′ With your hands, honey. If you do it with your mind the pain instead of softening, it hardens even more."
′′ With my hands grandma?"
′′ Yes, yes. Our hands are the antennas of our soul. If you make them move sewing, cooking, painting, playing or sinking them into the ground you send care signals to the deepest part of you. And your soul relaxes because you're giving it attention. So he doesn't need to send you pain to get noticed anymore."
′′ Really hands are so important?"
′′ Yes, my child. Think about newborns: they start to know the world thanks to the touch of their little hands. If you look at the hands of old people they talk about their life more than any other part of the body. Everything that is handmade is said to be done with the heart. Because it really is: hands and heart are connected. Massagers know it well: when they touch another person's body with their hands they create a deep connection. It's precisely this connection that comes healing. Think of lovers: when their hands touch each other they make love in the most sublime way."
′′ My hands grandma... how long has it been since I used them like this!"
′′ Move them my love, start creating with them and everything inside you will move. The pain will not go away. But it will turn into the most beautiful masterpiece. And it won't hurt anymore. Because you were able to embroider the essence of it."

Elena Bernab è

05/18/2021

Looking forward to participating in Lansdale Day Arts and Crafts Festival on July 17, 2021. Check out the details at

04/19/2021

Coming out of hibernation!
Shows coming up this year are
May 1 ~ Craft Boutique at Moyer Farmhouse - Chalfont
May 29 & 30 ~ Pennypack Mill - Hatboro
June 12 ~ Craft Boutique at Moyer Farmhouse - Chalfont
July 17 ~ Lansdale Day - Lansdale
August 28 ~ Craft Boutique at Moyer Farmhouse - Chalfont
September18 ~ Penny Packer Mills - Schwenksville
September 25 ~ Craft Boutique at Moyer Farmhouse - Chalfont
October 16 ~ Craft Boutique at Moyer Farmhouse - Chalfont
November 13 ~ Craft Boutique at Moyer Farmhouse - Chalfont
December 11 ~ Craft Boutique at Moyer Farmhouse - Chalfont

12/12/2020

Another Christmas craft show! We are here until 3:00 today if you need handmade Christmas or Hanukkah gifts! From Jayne Viggiano

12/06/2020

Today I have the whole farmhouse to myself! Come and visit if you need handmade Christmas gifts!

10/23/2020

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A customer asked me how much it cost to make a table
I answered him: $ 1500
He said: So expensive for this job?
I asked: How much do you think it would cost you?
He answers me: $ 800 maximum... That's a pretty simple job right? !"
- For $ 800 I invite you to do it yourself.
- But.... I don't know how to.
- For $800 I'll teach you how to. So besides saving you $700, you'll get the knowledge for the next time you want
- It seemed right to him and he agreed.
- But to get started: you need tools: A table saw, a planer, a planer, a top, dormants, etc...
- But I don't have all these equipment and I can't buy all of these for one job.
- Well then for another $250 more I'll rent my stuff to you so you can do it.
- Okay, he says.
- Okay! Tuesday I'm waiting for you to start doing this work
- But I can't on Tuesday I only have time today.
- I'm sorry, but I'm only available Tuesday to teach you and lend you my stuff. Other days are busy with other customers.
- Okay! That means I'm going to have to sacrifice my Tuesday, give up my tasks.
- I forgot. To do your job yourself, you also have to pay for the nonproductive factors.
- That is? What is this?"
- Bureaucratic, tax, vat, security, insurance, fuel etc.
- Oh no!... But to accomplish these tasks, I'm going to spend more money and waste a lot of time!
- Do you have them? You can do it to me before?"
- Okay!
- I'll make you all the material you need. Truck loading is done Monday evening or Tuesday morning you'll have to come by 6 loading the truck. Don't forget to be on time to avoid traffic jams and be on time
- At 6??? Nope! Too early for me! I used to getting up later...
- You know, I've been thinking. Y ' all better get the job done. I'd rather pay you the $1500. If I had to, it wouldn't be perfect and it would cost me a lot more.

When you pay for a job, especially handcrafted, you pay not only for the material used, but also:
- Knowledge
- Experience
- Study
- Tools
- Services
- Time to go
- punctuality
- Accountability
- Professionalism
- Accuracy
- Guaranteed
- Patents
- Sacrifices
- Safety and security
- Payment of tax obligations

No one can denigrate other people's work by judging prices.
Only by knowing all the elements necessary for the production of a certain work can you estimate the actual cost.

I did not write this dialogue, but am sharing it to support fellow craftsmen and entrepreneurs.

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Philadelphia, PA

Telephone

(267) 218-3312

Website

http://greengiftscompany.com/

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