Art and garden shows benefits Pocopson PTO

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Sunshine
and blue skies were the order of the day for all events Saturday, including the
seventh annual Art & Garden Show and Sale at Pocopson Elementary School.

The
yearly show and sale is a fund-raising event for the school’s PTO. It grew out
of an earlier program designed simply to let students show off their artistic
and craft talents.

While
school Principal Andrew McLaughlin was grilling hot dogs behind the school, the
cafeteria became an area for selling baked goods, potted plants, and for the
tables holding silent auction items. The gymnasium was turned into a crafters’
market with about 30 vendors selling their wares. Students were also selling
some of their projects.

“We’re
trying to have a fun day, a great day,” said event Chairman Alison Frey. “It’s
our biggest fund-raiser of the year.”

According
Frey, crafters had the option of buying their space for $75 and keeping all
their profits or splitting their profits with the PTO 50/50 without paying a
table fee.

Of
the money raised from the student projects, 50 percent goes to the PTO while
the remainder goes back to the classroom that the teacher can spend for
classroom use.

“All
of the classroom projects were done with the children,” Frey said.

Jodie
Weaver, PTO treasurer said the goal for this year was a minimum of $6,000, but
she was hoping the sale would raise $10,000. Last year’s event raised $14,000.

There
were myriad crafters on hand, including the return of Jill Bremmer who flattens
wine bottles in a kiln to make cheese boards. There was also a newcomer to the
sale, Love labors, run by sisters Shelley Byrne Steel and Susan Byrne
Lenkaitis.

Lenkaitis,
of Birmingham Township, said Love Labors is a women’s-based organization
“designed to inspire an outreach of human kindness.”

She
explained that the idea is to inspire people to “perform simple, meaningful
acts of kindness and foster stronger personal relationships.”

The
pair was selling their baskets, mugs, T-shirts, tote bags and handmade
stationary. Lenkaitis said the items were designed to act as a catalyst, a
trigger to remind people to do something nice for someone else.

“Pretty
much everything we make, we try to use as many recycled products as we can, and
try to be as pretty much green as we can,” Lenkaitis said.

She
added that they would donate a portion of their profits at the end of this year
to the Delaware valley Children’s Charity.

Love
Labors is a new business, and the Pocopson event was the first show.

The
sisters actually print the name LOVE LABorS and use the image of two Labrador
retrievers, a yellow and a black, in a heart-shaped logo. The dog images
represent Labradors the sisters once owned.

“The
dogs were our inspiration for our company,” Lenkaitis said. “ Dogs are
completely unselfish.”

About Rich Schwartzman

Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.

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