I've had a lot of fun with the 50th Birthday Celebration and so I've decided to restart something I did a few years ago. It's called "FREE-FOR-ALL-FRIDAYS"

Your only requirements for participation in Free-for-all-Fridays will be to

1)   if you have a Facebook page, "like" Shannon's Studio FB page (different from Shannon Christensen Fine Art FB page) and 

2)  send me your email address for my mailing list here on my website welcome page. As of yet, I don't send out group emails, and haven't used my email list, but one never knows what the future holds so I am collecting those interested. I have some fun, secretive ideas but I'll tell the email subscribers about that later. 

Well, that's it. But don't forget, Friday we'll start the first Free-for-all-Friday. Come back and see what I mean.

Sometimes I wonder about my children. And I'm talking about the adult ones. Last year 3 of them got married, all in a month and a half. See what I mean. Two of the weddings were ours to put on. It was crazy. Some of it's here. 

Well, I thought last year was as stressed out as it was ever going to get for us as far as weddings are concerned. Silly me.

We were on a family trip 2 weeks ago when my eldest called and said she was getting married - in less than a week. What the crazy? And it was going to be at our house. We wouldn't be home for several more days. Needless to say we cut it short, got home Sunday night and had the wedding Wednesday. And I have to say we didn't do half bad. Or even three quarters bad. Okay, it really turned out all good. So, that's how we celebrate around here - intensely.

We're so happy for our newest member of the family, Sky. More of their story is here.

All the fam was here except for Barry, though we got to see him through video chats.

I'll try to post some of what we did and how we put it all together so fast later.