Ammendment to the law for crafters.

The following links will put you to the web site that is in charge of the new law requiring testing of children's items. If this is of interest to you, please feel free to follow these links. The second and third is the actual report.

(The following new entries have been posted to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission's web page on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008 located at http://www.cpsc.gov/about/cpsia/cpsia.html in What's New:CPSC Grants One Year Stay of Testing and Certification Requirements for Certain Products (http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09115.html)Stay of Enforcement of Testing and Certification Requirements - Draft Federal Register Notice, January 30, 2009 (http://www.cpsc.gov/library/foia/foia09/brief/stayenforce.pdf)Public Comments on Civil Penalty Criteria - Section 217(b)(2) of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, January 22, 2009 (http://www.cpsc.gov/library/foia/foia09/pubcom/civilpenalty.pdf)-----------------------------

New Jewelry

Here are some new pins that I'm working on. They are all OOAK made from vintage jewelry.

Starting to work now.

Well I've finally begun working here. I've done some OOAK pins and pendents which I'm sellinmg now in the boutique where I work. I will take some pics today and put them in.

I've also began work on a new doll challenge. It's a figure from the Discworld series of books by Terry Prachett. When he's done he will be Dr. Whiteface, who is the evil clown from this world. I've started the head and hands and have an amiture body for now. This is my first attempt at a real head. I've done some fake heads for decorative things but nothing realistic yet. So it was a little scary, but I'm happy with it so far. It still needs to be painted and sanded etc.

More pics

Here are some more almost done now.

A new studio

Well the holidays are finally over and things are going back to usual. Whatever that is. The studio is almost done. I forgot how much stuff I actually have. As you can see from the 2nd set of pics it's quite extensive. I just hate to throw anything away. You never know when you can recycle, reuse or just admire!

I've enclosed a pic of the great master at work. He's the one with the sour face! Personality aside...he's truly a master at this sort of stuff. Ask him to build something, and low & behold it's done. Can't ask for more. Well maybe a smile now and then. Ah, forget it...who cares if he smiles...just keep building. LOL