These beautiful dead pens were sent in last week by Terry from Denver CO, I think. When people send pens most times there is no return address or a least an email I can say thanks. So I had to do my best CSI investigation, using anything I can glean from the package. Address label, names on the pens anything to give me an approximate location. From what I could gather these came from Terry in Denver Colorado. Thanks “Terry” and keep on sending your old pens, because it sure beats the land fill and you get to feel better about it all.
Another Happy Customer in the Mercedes Pens
This is what happy customer looks like sitting inside the Mercedes Pens art car. A day doesn’t go by without talking to someone about the car. Often times people stop by for a picture and I often given them one of my pen guy fliers and a free pen. If I have the time which is always the case I often open the car up for an inside look at the pen covered interior. This time around I was coming out of a Starbucks in the morning with my muffing and grande coffee in hand when Amy and her daughter Cosette came by for a visit.
“You were kind enough to talk to my daughter, mother-in-law & me the other day in front of Starbucks. You showed us your wonderful Mercedes Pens, explained your ‘story’ and let us sit for photos. So, here are some of those photos for your collection. Thank you for your fun and happy spirit, artistic point of view and ability to make us laugh.”
Thanks for stopping by and I am looking forward to meeting more of you soon and if you have taken any interesting pictures of the car, please send them in.
Grace Church School – Donates Old Pens
Last October I got an email from Dana from Grace Church School in New York City who asked me if I needed more pens. The answer was a big yes and promised that she would collect a bunch and send them over. Last Friday Dana came through and I got this wonderful box of dead pens here on my orange shag seat covers. So a great be thank you goes out to Dana who made it happen and all of you at Grace Church School, who donated your old pens.
Sonic.net Pen – Business of the day
I recently went to a Business Expo last Thursday by The Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce which happened to be at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts. There were many business at the event and I knew they had my favorite item… FREE pens. I decided to go and visit and managed to collect about 20- 30 pens and connect with quite a few people who had seen my Mercedes pens art car around town. I left feeling that there was an opportunity here to do more for business in this area and help promote them in these interesting times we are living in. So I decided to feature every business and their pen here in Santa Rosa Ca, with a link to their website.
The first business that I felt I should feature on the Mercedes Pens is sonic.net, a full-service internet provider based in Santa Rosa who were the first ISPs to bring DSL access to the wine country. The history of how they got started is very interesting and you can read it on their page. The weird thing is that for a brief time Dale Jasper the CEO of Sonic.net and his wife lived on my street and I had the opportunity to say hi a few times on my way to work.
Inspired mom collects olds pens for the pen guy
I found this great picture on a blog called The Clothesline by a wonderful mom called Cathy who found The Pen Guy blog and decided to collect her old pens and send them over when the box is full. The comments are also very encouraging and came on a day when I was feeling down while contemplating the economy and my finances. There are moments in life when in the face of great opposition and difficulty you have to move forward by faith on the vision and destiny you were meant to walk in. The world says one thing but your heart and gut says another. Often times people give up the fight right before the breakthrough comes and never go on to walk in their destiny and see their dreams come true. I heard once that the worlds greatest inventions and ideas are found inside graves, because they were buried there with the people who either gave up too soon, or were too afraid to step out in faith to believe that they had an idea worth pursuing. We are not alone in life and need others to encourage us in the journey but we also need to encourage others in the journey as well. Cathy has done that for me today and I thank her from the bottom of my heart. Giving up on your dreams is not only a trategy for you but for the rest of us who would have benefited in some way from that dream. Think of all the ideas and inventions that make a difference in your life today, now think of life without those same things. So all I can say is dream big and fight a good fight to see those dreams come true. Imagine life without Disney for instance!!!