Back Again

Hey all,
Firstly I have to apologise for my absence, I really needed to take some timeout due to a personal family crisis, and in turn this affected my need to want to draw or create any art at all. I am not sure why it affected me like this as I am the sort of person who needs to keep my mind occupied and work through it, but not this time. I think I had to sit back and reflect on things in my life, thinking about what really matters to me and in a round about way I may have sorted that out. My art is very important to me as it is a passion, but I so want to go in a different direction and and follow that through, but I need to find the time to make that happen, without totally giving up on the pet portrait/commission side of things. This is my plan and aim for the winter going into the new year, as I fear if I don't make some of these changes soon I will walk away from it all together.......its like life in general, it all comes down to getting the balance right, so one can grow and be happy.
This week I started back on my commissions, because with this timeout I have fallen behind, and once I have agreed to do the work, I must finish it, so I will be putting a few updates later on.
My other news for this week is about Google Page Creator and Google Sites.In a previous post I mentioned that I had migrated my site to GPC, only to find out that Google will be closing this down later on in the year, and all GPC sites will be migrated to Google Sites. I do belong to the discussion group for both of these, and there are alot of GPC users are just not happy with this change, me included, but saying that I thought I moved my GPC to Sites anyway, 1/ because I knew it was going to happen 2/ I wanted to do it myself and 3/ I just don't have the patience to hunt around for another free host provider. The main moan about Sites is that is wiki software, originally called Jotspot that Google bought up sometime ago and are now developing into a usable program, which I think it is meant to incorporate elements from GPC combined with newer elements to create a user friendly interface. I found it a little difficult to use at first, but once I understood the basics, it came easy, and for a non techie person like me that's great. I have also incorporated Picasa web albums to use as my galleries instead of loading the images directly onto the pages, which is far more nicer, but even so I am still tweaking it and adding in stuff, but if fancy a look here is the link...http://www.artwithapencil.co.uk......feel free to tell me what you think of it so far,or use the comments facility on site.