12.19.2008

SAVE HANDMADE

LISTEN UP.

If you have ever bought your child, a friend's baby, your niece, nephew, baby cousin, grandchild or friend's new grandchild a homemade GIFT... please sit up & take notice.

This is something that is going to affect many people I know, including my friend Dana at Plum Tree Studio. I'm sure in ways I have not read, it'll affect me & cREaTe.

February 10, 2008 [a week after my Birthday] ... lives, homes & childhoods will CHANGE because of the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act. Handmade clothing & toys will become extinct. There are people whose LIVES are making these treasures for little ones. There are people whose LIVES are collecting these treasures for their little ones. These are people like me who have a small business on the side while they raise children ... people who have quit their day job to pursue CREATIVITY & FOLLOW THEIR DREAMS ... people who have done this ALL their lives, know nothing else & now will have NOTHING.

Handmade is about to become HISTORY.

If this is your 1st time hearing about this, click on the links & do at least ONE THING to help out. Please go "out of your way" to sign up for an easy account to vote (<-- click to vote). Click here to "virtually sign" the iPetition. Please take the time to write a letter. Post this information on your blog. E-mail your friends. Please read, please click, please take action. If this is your 5th time reading about this, but you have yet to take action - please, I'm begging you to take the time NOW to do your ONE THING to help.

My friend Dana has done a ton of leg work to bring all this information to us... so click here and here to see her posts on it. (and you can read my comments, too)

Click here to read about it on "Cool Mom Picks".

And Etsy wrote about it here.

As you can see ... it's everywhere, which should help you digest it & realize IT'S REAL.

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