Help Save HANDMADE!!

If you have ever bought or thought about buying handmade, or perhaps SELL handmade items, please visit Cool Mom Picks for a great detailed post about the newly passed Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act. Rather than recap and rehash what they have already said VERY well over there, I'm giving you a small excerpt, and encouraging you to go visit the blog, and check out the links they provide for you to take action in support of all things handmade.
Taken from Cool Mom Picks
"With this act going into effect February 10 2009 so many people we love will be affected: Moms who sew beautiful handmade waldorf dolls out of home, artists who have spent decades hand-carving trucks and cars out of natural woods, that guy at the craft show who sold you the cute handmade puzzle--even larger US companies who employ local workers and have not once had any sort of safety issue will no longer be able to sell their goods. Not without investing tens of thousands of dollars into third-party testing and labeling, just to prove that toys that never had a single toxic chemical in them still don't have a single toxic chemical in them."