November 14, 2009
Important Announcement Concerning Website
Dear Friends,
I want to let you know that there will be a huge change in the website in the near future. A large portion of the website will be closing down by the end of the year. I need to get things to a managable level.
My oldest daughter (23) gets married in March and my youngest children are still 10 and almost 12 and so I'm trying to do more with them and other things offline. Frankly, I have had to set some priorities for myself and raising my kids is my focus right now.
I have been doing this online ministry for over 8 years and now is just the right timing for me to step away from it and I feel that this is the direction that the Lord would have me to go. I do appreciate all of the friends I've made through the website and am thankful that you have allowed me to come into your lives and ministries with my writing.
I will be keeping
my blog up as it pertains to my Stampin' Up! business,
my graphics,
women's resources that are for download, and some of the
crafty pages will remain as they fit nicely with my Stampin' Up! business. As most of you know, my husband works for the state of CA so we still have furlough days to contend with and I do need to keep any extra income coming in as I can.
My husband and I do my Stampin' Up! business as a team. He inputs all of my orders, does any mailings, keeps up with current Stampin' Up! issues and fields my email to let me know if I need to personally answer anything. I'm blessed in that regard that it allows me to continue doing the creative end.
The blog is fairly easy to do as it's just a matter of straight typing and no layout and coding as the website is. I can take a few minutes once a week or even every few weeks to make several posts at a time and set them to post on whatever day I want.
I will start removing a large portion of the pages from the main website in December so please be sure to download any of the devotionals and articles that you'd like to keep in your files. I'm hoping by the end of December to have the website reworked. It will still be here, just smaller and mainly focusing on ministry crafting ideas.
The permissions policy will remain the same for anything you have downloaded from the website. You may reproduce devotionals and articles for personal use and for your local women's group or church but
you may not reprint or reproduce any of my writing online in any form on any website, blog,email groups, etc. If you want to publish any of the devotionals or articles to anything other than church related newsletters and bulletins,
please write for specific permission. Thanks!
Many of the ministry printables are hosted on my old domain (creativeladiesministry.com) so even though you go to them on this website many of the files are really hosted on the other site. That hosting will be expiring soon and although I will be keeping the domain itself, it will be just a redirect url to this site so please be sure to
grab any of those printables that you want right away.
I hope you all will continue visiting the
blog. I've been trying to share ideas there for ministry crafting. When I've finished reworking the website, I trust what's left will still remain a good resource for you where ministry crafting is concerned.
Thank you so much for all of your prayers and encouragement...
Julia 
