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CPSIA Blog-In Day...Make Your Voice Heard!

Please take a few minutes to read this and act today! ( I missed the official Blog-In, but I think that this is so important...better late than never.

As parents and concerned citizens I’m sure most of us at one time or another have been confronted with the question of lead poisoning. But have you asked yourself what your government is doing to protect your children from lead contained in toys? The answer? They're banning toys, taking books from schools and libraries, hurting low income families, killing entrepreneurial spirit and risking putting the economy in an even greater depression than we've seen in decades. I'd like to introduce you to their solution: the CPSIA.

Do you know about the CPSIA? No? Then I ask you to take a few minutes to find out about it.

The CPSIA stands for Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, a new set of laws that will come into effect on 10 February, 2009 and will impact many, many people in a negative way. Make no mistake, this is very real. View it for yourself. If Forbes, the American Library Association and numerous other media are paying attention, perhaps you should too.

How will these new laws affect you? Well, here are a few examples:

Blog Makeover

Don't worry, you're not in the wrong place, you are at my newly designed blog! Thanks to my Honey for diligently working on it for the past few days...he is my Hero!!

There are still a few things that need to be tweaked and fine tuned, so please bear with me... "cause every little thing gonna be all right".

Cherry Cordial Chocolate Blossom Cookies

Today is my Dad's Birthday, and I decided to make some yummy cookies to give him...he is a Cookie Monster! This is one of my favorites and reminds me of the Cherry-Chip cookies you get at the grocery store, except with an added bonus of the kiss on top. With all the yummy new flavors of chocolate kisses you could experiment and add your own little twist on top. I chose to use the Cherry Cordial Hershey Kisses for even more cherry goodness! I packaged them in a frosted take-out box lined with some stripy tissue paper and a layer of wax paper. They look tasty don't they?

Ta-Da, Hocus Pocus, and Abracadabra

I finished my 2-Hour Cape...a day later. I suppose if you knew what you were doing and had made this pattern a few times you could actually have it cut and sewn together in 2 hours.

Anyhow, it's done and I LOVE IT!! It turned out so magnificent, and even a little "Twilight-esque", unintended of course.