I’ve been dying to reveal what I’ve been up to behind the scenes and now that it’s mostly settled I can tell. We’re expecting a new addition to our family!
The last year, we’ve been pursuing adoption of a sibling group or an “older” child from Taiwan ROC. Just lately, we’ve been matched with a 6 year old little boy! We’ve accepted the referral and are waiting for the courts to finalize everything before we travel to go pick him up next year. After traveling, we expect to be quite busy helping him learn English, adjust to his new life in the US of A, and homeschooling him.
Isn’t he a cutie? Because of my expected future busy-ness devoted to our new little boy, I’ve been pondering how things are going to work. I decided that from now on, I’m working to convert everything will be download only. So you can still get your poodle designs here plus some new things. 
I’m going to start writing out patterns and instructions of things I used to sell at craft fairs and posting them here as well. So if you have a little crafty streak you can make some of the things yourself. I will still own the copyright for all drawings, patterns, and designs but you will be able to use them for your own personal projects as long as you don’t sell them for money. Just as a side note, even though all the downloads will be free but I will be accepting donations via PayPal if you’re so inclined. Calligraphy projects will be handled differently. If you’d like a piece done I’ll accept on a “as I have time” basis and will be the same rates as before.
It’ll take a little while to start changing things here, but I’ll eventually get there. First up, I’ve drawn out some quilt applique patterns — so look for those in the coming weeks.
Happy National Adoption Month!
The hardest part of writing him is that we have to write in Chinese! Good thing J knows how to translate from English, but we still have to look up many of the Chinese characters as neither of us know very many.