What's up with Elisabeth & George?: Fwd: Final Reminder - Vote TODAY to Save Small Businesses from the CPSIA

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Fwd: Final Reminder - Vote TODAY to Save Small Businesses from the CPSIA

It's kind of a pain to post from my iPhone, but hopefully this works. Here's an email I sent today. Vote today to save handmade toys!

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Subject: Fwd: Final Reminder - Vote TODAY to Save Small Businesses from the CPSIA

The new law for safety with childrens toys will effectively eliminate (legally made and sold) handmade toys. Vote today to try and save handmade toys! At least half of Regin's toys are handmade. Without handmade toys I would be stuck with all plastic bath toys and my organic toy options would be slim. Not to mention the beauty and artistry of handmade toys as opposed to mass-produced plastic crap available at toys r us. Surely there can be safety laws put in place that small companies could afford to follow!

Elisabeth

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Begin forwarded message:

From: "Handmade Toy Alliance" <info@handmadetoyalliance.org>
Date: January 15, 2009 12:00:09 PM MST
To: <elisabeth@miamisalsa.com>
Subject: Final Reminder - Vote TODAY to Save Small Businesses from the CPSIA
Reply-To: "Handmade Toy Alliance" <info@handmadetoyalliance.org>

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Today is the last day to vote at Change.org to save small busineses from the CPSIA. Voting ends today at 5pm EST, so please vote now. Your vote today will ensure a prominent place on the national agenda for small children's product manufacturers.

Go to:

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/save_handmade_toys_from_the_cpsia

The Change.org server is very busy today, so if you get an error, please try again after 5 minutes. This is the second round of voting, so if you voted prior to 12/31/08, we need you to vote again.

If you have already voted in the second round, thank you so much for your continued support and please disregard this email.

What: We need your vote again at Change.org!

How: Vote at http://www.change.org/ideas/view/save_handmade_toys_from_the_cpsia

When: Today before 5pm Eastern Time!

Thank you so much for your support of the Handmade Toy Alliance. Our membership numbers continue to grow and we have been receiving many positive press responses. We remain grateful to you for your trust in our products and your ability to work with us to make a positive change in this legislation.

www.handmadetoyalliance.org

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How we're doing right now.

April 6th, 2009
Oh man, moving back home has been quite a transition! For Regin especially. It has taken him three months to return to being fully, or almost fully, potty trained. But we're home and happy to be with friends and in an environment where things are easier.

But of course, not everything is easier. George's first day back to work he learned that the company was exiting the business and he and all the other people that work on that product (including all those people he trained in Penang) were told to look for other jobs.

His last day was March 31st. No time for that cozy little 'sabbatical' though; after he finished his last day of work, his family called and told us they are coming (from Florida) for a visit on the 10th! This would be no big deal (other than being terribly exciting) if we were fully moved back in, but of course, until now, we've had VERY little motivation to fully unpack! So now we're preparing the house at warp speed!

You know, I do miss Penang. Hard to say what I miss exactly, because I know it's more than our friends there, but I feel a certain pang. And all the time we were there, other than missing family, friends, easy living, and snow, I never once actually missed 'Colorado.'

When we got back to Colorado, I expected to have a new and complete love for the place. I do appreciate some things a lot more, especially visual things. I see beauty where I didn't before. But it hasn't been the feeling of home that I expected, and I still have some of the same issues with the place. But what I do love IMMENSELY and will always love IMMENSELY is the people we have here. And it's been absolutely amazing to see how Regin has picked right back up where he left off with his loved ones here. There's no doubt in my mind that he somehow remembers them.