I took the Pledge

I added a new button to the side of my page; it's the "I took the Handmade Pledge" one right alongside this post (for now, anyway. It will move when this post moves!)

The pledge is pretty basic, it simply says that I'll only give handmade gifts for the holidays this year.

I hope to do a lot of the gifts myself, but, it also means that anything that I give that I don't make will have been bought handmade by someone else.

I'm excited to see if I can really hold to it.
Interested? Follow the link on the button.

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ATTENTION!

People reading this blog!

Please visit my NEW blog! It is a place for my artistic endeavors.
I'll continue to blog her about personal stuff, but plan on using the new blog for the things I'm doing and creating.

I would really love to see all of you there!

http://nissanicole.blogspot.com

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August 28, 2008

I'm sold.

For all the anger, exhaustion and fury that's been America for the past six years, for all the people in all the places and all the colors and all the dreams and all the nationalities, religions and beliefs,
this man is our chance.

To wake up after six years of pessimism and fear and indifference, to see that there is someone who still believes that this country is great, not only in military dominance but in content; to feel again that it's worth fighting for, not to be saved but to be enabled to succeed, to better ourselves and those around us.

I questioned him more than anyone, and he will have to learn and learn quick, and it won't be easy. But to have someone who gets it - that's what I'm now willing to try.

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