Head on over to the Shabby Shoppe Blog to see my last post-  Heritage Pages.  SP has decided to discontinue the blog- except for shoppe announcements- and discontinue the Shabby Artist Team- except  I will be able to participate in new releases and such.  She has too much on her plate right now, and in order to simplify, the best thing to do was let go of these things.  The blog was taking too much time away from designing new products and spending time with her family.  I think she’s pretty amazing for choosing her family first.

I completely understand the need to simplify!  With everything going on in my family right now- Dad starting treatments, Charity’s baby is due on February 24th, Baby Shower on February 9th, and trying to find/buy property and build a home on…. and the list goes on!  Things are crazy right now, and I wasn’t sure how I was going to be able to continue with the blog at this time.  So, this is a blessing in disguise, no matter how sad it is to be letting this part of me go.

So, anyway, head on over to see the new pages I’ve done.  I will also be posting them on my blog in the near future… along with a “few” others!  :0)

Christopher has been VERY interested in his future.  He talks about it ALL the time.  He wants to grow up- so I tell him he needs to eat his vegetables so he can grow up faster.  And, he wants to go work with Daddy at Quilt EZ so he can make robots, too.  We’ve been talking about building a house quite a bit lately, and he has taken up on that, too- he wants to build his very own house, and he says that I can come visit him.  :0)  And, on New Years Eve, we had fondue, and used little tealight candles to keep the fondue warm- he LOVED the candles, and wanted to keep some so when he builds his house, he will have candles to put in it.  This is quite the jumbled story, I know, but I had to give a background for what comes next- otherwise, it may sound COMPLETELY wrong!

Okay, other day, he was talking to Ivon and I at the dinner table.  He said,

“When I grow up I’m going to build my very own house, so I can have candles.  Then, I can marry a girl, and kiss her on the lips!”

:0)  (A few Sundays ago, when he was saying goodbye to Grandma Cullumber, he gave her a kiss and told her, “I like kissing girls on the lips!”)

This kid and his stories…. :0)

For months now, Ivon has been taking classes and getting private lessons to learn the art of doing voice overs.  The beginning of December, we went down to Orem to Jackman Music where they recorded demos for him.  The recording engineer had to finish them by putting the music and other stuff in the background.  He just sent them yesterday!  Ivon did SO good!  The recording engineer was very pleased with Ivon’s voice.  It’s SO exciting!  And, I want to share the demos with you!  Since WordPress will only let me have 2MB size files, I have to share a link instead of putting them in this post.  So, click here, here, and here!  Now, he can be a professional Voice Talent, earning extra money with this amazing gift he’s been given!  :0)

For Christmas, Ivon and I made the kids some tee pee’s-  well, the older kids.  Mallie got a rocking chair- which she LOVES!  Anyway, the tee pee’s turned out SO fun!  I couldn’t get a pattern, so Ivon and his math genius, figured out the angles and everything for me to cut the fabric out.  And, this is what they look like:

The boys’.  :0)  Christopher’s has pirate characters, and Robby’s has green and blue dinosaurs.

And, the girls’.  :0)  Hannah’s has pink and grey whales, and Emily’s has aqua, brown and white hearts.

They should be a lot of fun in the summer.  Right now, they don’t have much time to play with them, what with school and all.  That and the fact that Hannah’s and Christopher’s have had a ribbon ripped off the doors.  Grr.  They are still waiting in my sewing room to be fixed.  It might take me a while to get to them.  :0|