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If you have children or if you care about children or if you care about the environment or if you care about small businesses or if you care about charities like Goodwill and Salvation Army, you need to be writing to your congressperson and getting all up in arms about the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. It will destroy small businesses. It will force the destruction of all used toys and childrens clothes, and make it illegal to sell children's items on Etsy or Ebay. It is designed to stop lead contamination in childrens' products, but it is punishing the innocent in the process.

Go to http://www.handmadetoyalliance.org/ to read more, and then get angry. And you don't have to be American to be angry about this. If you live in Europe or Canada or anywhere, it will be illegal to sell childrens' goods to anyone in America.

Alana

Posted by Alana at 07:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

There are a few things on girlalive.com that have been bothering me for a while. Things I've been meaning to change, but I haven't had the time. Actually, I still don't have the time, but here is a list of things I want to change sometime over the next year.

1. Move the blog from Moveable Type to WordPress. (A terrifying prospect, but I think it needs to be done.)
2. Move all the old content in the writing and drawing sections into the blog archives.
3. Move all the t-shirt designs over to zazzle.com because cafepress has been getting on my nerves.

Other things I'd like to do:

1. Start posting some videos on YouTube.
2. Open an Etsy store.

At the same time, in the next year I am, in theory, moving to a new house and possibly attempting a new career (which will involve building and designing a whole nother web site). So we'll just see how much of these things actually get done.

Alana

Posted by Alana at 07:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)