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Spoonflower: ‘Online Social Networking’ Meets ‘Print Your Own Fabric’

Move over Amy Butler , there’s a new kid on the block for designer fabrics. All custom-designed by a growing online network of DIYers and printed in Mebane, North Carolina, fabric pattern buffs will appreciate Spoonflower , a print-on-demand service that is also an Etsy -type of online community and marketplace where users can upload, share and purchase a mind-boggling variety of unique pattern designs. From the quirky to the sublime, the site probably has a pattern to … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Spoonflower: ‘Online Social Networking’ Meets ‘Print Your Own Fabric’

Doctors may ‘fire’ parents who don’t vaccinate children

When Cathlene Echan walked into her pediatrician's office two weeks after giving birth, she was nervous about discussing her recent decision not to vaccinate her second baby. But Echan, of Orange County, Calif., did not expect to be asked to leave. “The doctor said it was too much of a liability to have us as patients,” said Echan, a 28-year-old stay at home mom

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Doctors may ‘fire’ parents who don’t vaccinate children