American Made- Women Owned

In my last blog, I spoke of the birthday celebration of our great nation! That leads me into the very foundation of my company. Our company is in not only based in America, but all the products are made in the good ole’ USA as well. America is a place where a woman with a distinct disability can actually form a company and be successful! What a great place to live and thrive. In addition, this company is owned and run by women. That is not something that happens all over the world. Cherish the freedom and thank all veterans for the privilege.

Happy Birthday America!!

I love this country! Sure, it has problems, but the freedom we have is great! Freedom to start your own small business, freedom to follow your dreams! We can all help stimulate the economy by spending money with the small businesses and local farmers that are the backbone of this great land. Take some time and search for smaller businesses that offer that personal touch, many of them are on the internet, so do your part and help them out. In the end, it helps us all!!

Tribute to My Two Dads!

I had a wonderful father while I was growing up. At Christmas time, he would paint the windows with holiday designs, all freehand! All through the year, at holiday times where gift giving was involved, my sister and I would wake up and find a riddle on our pillows. These were actually clues we needed to decipher and follow in order to find our presents. They were always corny, but ever so wonderful. That I believe is where I got the creative gene for my artistic endeavors! (It should also be noted here, that my mother taught me to be creative in a host of other ways, thrifty, silly and loving.) I wish now I had hung on to all those little slips of paper so I could have saved them in a family scrapbook. The world lost a beautiful soul when he passed away in 1975. I forever miss and love him.

However, God does work in wonderful ways and some time after my father’s passing my mother met an absolutely beautiful man. Hal was the most terrific step parent anyone would have a right to ask for. He was a funny, creative, giving, and well educated man. He had a thirst for knowledge and a love of life I always admired. Nothing stopped him. If he started a project and it didn’t go as he had planned, he always found a way to make it work! When the house needed painting, instead of hiring it done, which he could have easily done, he found black paint and white paint on sale. He mixed them up and to everyone’s surprise it was a beautiful silver color. When people asked what color the house was, he would say “It’s Seattle Silver”. I often wonder how many people marched down to local paint store demanding Seattle Silver! I will also love and miss him forever! So if you still have your Dad, love him everyday you can!

Starting Your Own Business

It is an adventure, but it’s much more than that! Think of how many other businesses (large and small) your business will impact. For instance, as with my company, hiring a company to do computer maintenance, an extremely than vital function. So, you hire another business to perform that service for your company. Then there are the taxes, while the day-to-day bookkeeping is handled in-house who has time, or the desire, to keep up on all the tax laws? So you hire a CPA to handle that aspect of your business. There you are, you are already moving the economy along! Did someone say “stimulus”?
Meanwhile the companies that you hired to help your business grow, hire other business to help their business grow and so forth and so on. You know the saying “It takes a village”? The same thing is true in launching, growing and sustaining a business

The Best Gift for Father's Day

Don’t know what to get Dad a Father’s Day gift? It’s coming up fast, but there is still time to go to our website and order your Shirt or Tie Design Kit and create a one of a kind handmade Father's Day gift. You make it, he spends it on whatever he wants! It’s fun, fast and easy to do and it will make this Father’s Day memorable!! Our catalog is on line now, so go to http://www.foldinmoney.com/ and order your kit NOW!!

Have a Graduate in your future?

Graduation is a wonderful time for students, friends and parents alike. Until it comes to what to give the grad as a gift! In these economic times, giving a gift needs to be useful and when you can make it fun too, that’s a bonus!! Money seems to be the answer, but how do you turn cash into fun, exciting gift? Using a Foldin’ Money Gift and Card is the answer! Visit our website to see the great cards that we have paired with our wonderful designs!!

What is the difference?

Recently, while hosting a booth at a local craft fair, I realized that people are confused between Origami and Moneygami! When asking folks if they had heard of Foldin’ Money, some of the answers were “Yes, I saw a book about how to do it at a store” or “My friend does that and made me a ring”, etc. So I thought I’d blog to explain what the differences are.

Origami is an ancient art, time consuming to do and a long time to master. Generally, origami made of cash uses just ONE bill and it not made with the idea of giving it as a gift to be unfolded and spent.

Moneygami is what we termed for our folding money designs. Each design is made up of multiple bills, from 3 bills up to 7 bills. Anyone can make one just by following the instructions in our kits! These are MADE to be taken apart and spent! That’s the whole fun idea; making something beautiful, giving it as a gift to be admired, and then the recipient gets the added fun of taking it apart to spend. Not only is the gift recyclable, it is your very own handmade stimulus package!!!

So giving cash is no longer boring or unimaginative! Try it, you’ll like it!!