House With a Heart seemed like the perfect fit – they provide extraordinary love and care to dogs at the end of their lives. And helping this organization was also a great way for Orion’s Attic to take its first steps toward a business model aimed not just at making a living but making a difference as well.
“Buy good stuff, do great things” instantly became our mantra and our mission. We’d pursue our passion for selling antiques, art, collectibles, used furniture and treasures of all kinds but in way that met the challenge from our business coach to match our company’s work with our values.
In the six months since we first visited the pet sanctuary, we’ve written a few donation checks to their organization and expect to write more in 2012. We also volunteered our time to design a database that House With A Heart is using to track critical information.
And we continue to help people “buy good stuff, do great things.” We’ve worked with Pyramid Atlantic, a nonprofit dedicated to printmaking, papermaking and book arts, and we’ve partnered with IMPACT Silver Spring to support its mission of creating economic empowerment opportunities in the Long Branch community.
We’re currently running the inaugural Flower Avenue Holiday Market in Silver Spring. It’s an outdoor market that sprang to life on an unused parking lot and is filled with vendors selling rare books, handmade jewelry, vinyl snowflake window decorations and more. We also show off our own crowd-pleasing 105-year-old keratometer – a piece of ophthalmological equipment that looks more like a TV satellite dish.
The Flower Avenue Holiday Market is held on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. through December 24. For more information, visit www.orionsattic.com.
Maryland Life contributor Christopher Lancette can be reached at chris@orionsattic.com. To learn more about his company, visit the website or Facebook at www.facebook.com/orionsattic.
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