I found this video when I was Stumbling online. It scared me to think that someday, when I decide to have kids, I will have to worry about more than just what I should and shouldn't eat, but what personal products to use, pans that I cook with, or containers I put food in. Chemicals and pollution are effecting the male population and future of mankind.

Here is another website that lists some everyday things that can danger your pregnancy: http://www.sixwise.com/Newsletters/2009/February/4/Four-Common-Toxic-Chemicals-to-Avoid-Pregnancy.htm

I have exactly 21 days left of high school. 29 till the graduation ceremony. 42 till I choose my classes for my fall semester at college. And 120 until freshman move-in day.

Until then, my life is filled with a multitude of events (mostly in the next month). I have a Senior ball game, 6 flags trip, senior luncheon, project graduation, my own graduation party, a trip to Texas, a trip to Florida, a shadowing program, my part time job....so many things are filling up my remaining time at home. There are so many I need to finish, or want to start, but who knows if or when I’ll have time.  Soon I’ll be off to college, independent, on my own, starting the next phase of my life.

Time flies. Really. It’s so cliché when you hear it from someone else, but when you see everything pass before your eyes, it’s almost an epiphany. A sudden, intuitive perception of how fast the rest of your life really goes by. Where will I be in four years? Four years ago, I totally wouldn’t have expected me to change so much.

Am I truly ready for this kind of independence? Will it suddenly hit me my first night in my dorm that I miss my family more than I thought I would?  What if I’m not ready for the classes? What if I fail? Questions fill my brain to the brim and the only one who can answer them is I. I am excited, but it seems the closer it gets, the more nervous I become.

All I know is high school; that is where I’ve spent the majority of my time for the past four years. I’m to the point that I’m done. I’m done with immature underclassmen, I’m done with silly high school drama, and I’m done with seeing the same people day in and day out. I’m ready to break free and move on. College- Here I come.

So I tried out my Sock Bunny Pattern (click here for tutorial) on baby socks.

I bought a pack of 6 pairs of baby boy socks (0-6 Months) at Walmart.

I used small beads for the eyes and nose.

But I did not stuff feet and ears with beads. I only used stuffing.

They turned out to be about the size of a mug!!

Cute, huh?

Oh, what to do, what to do with all those socks that lost their match? Go Green and Recyle them! Make yourself some adorable sock bunnies! Anyone can make these. I'm not the greatest at sewing, and I would say its a pretty easy project.

Sock Bunny Tutorial

Materials:

1. old sock (crew cut is best)

2. needle and thread (that matches sock)

3. rice/beans/pellets/beads

4. stuffing

5. buttons

6. ribbon (optional)

First set your sock up, inside out, with the heel facing up. I trimmed mine down because I thought it was too long, but thats your own choice.

For the ears, but down the middle, from the toe end untill you reach the heel, but do not cut through the heel. For the legs, cut about halfway to the heel, from the other end.

If you'd like, you can round off the ears.

With your matching thread, begin sewing all the way around the ears.

Like so ^^^

Begin sewing around the legs, but not all the way around.

Only sew around the bottom of the foot and halfway up the leg. do this for each leg. The whole that is left is where you start stuffing.

Take a few of your beans/rice/pellets or in my case, beads and ever-so-slightly fill the tip of each ear.

Thats all i filled mine. This is just to make the ears a bit heavier.

Then take your stuffing and again, just slightly fill each ear so they are still floppy.

Then you can stuff the head and body. Remember, keep those ears floppy!

take a few beads again, and fill each foot, like you did the ears. then stuff them, but don't leave the legs floppy like the ears.

and there is your bunny's body! Don't forget to sew on buttons for the eyes and nose. I used thread or embroidery floss to stitch on a mouth. Finish your sock bunny off with a ribbon!

(you cant really see the ears on the last two, they are flopped behind)

Other ideas:

*angel bunny (to go with my devil on the end)

*use baby socks to make baby bunnies

*tuxedo bunny

*use fringe to make a flapper bunny

*pretty much anything can go with these guys!