Bloggy Changes {Who Helped}

Like so many of you gorgeous ladies,

I came to blogland with ZERO knowledge

about how to design my blog.

In addition to that, I had ZERO clue 

on what I wanted it to look like.

After several months weeks of contemplation, 

and some encouragement from my friends Jenna and Ashley

in addition to my AWESOME hubby (DL),

I have braved attempting the changes on my own.

I have chosen a color scheme 
(gray and mint green with some splashes of pink)
that I think represents me well,

plus it goes along with my new little button.


I also made a Featured button because I am going to start featuring some gals more and more.

I thought it might be nice for me to share with you a bit about how I went through these changes.

There are so many amazing tutorials on how to 

create buttons and banners, 

but I had a bit of trouble with backgrounds.

Shabbyblogs did have sooo many that I liked, but for some reason my desktop won't open any blog that has their code.

My Mac will though.

This being the case I didn't want to use one of their designs.

So, I just started typing key terms into Google.

Stuff like:

Free Blog Backgrounds

Free Blog Designs

Free Polka Dot Blog Backgrounds.

I came up with this cool site,
JuneLily.com,

which is where I acquired my background image.

It came in several colors.

It came with a tutorial, but the design minima is not in my Blogger template choices, so they didn't work.

Back to Google I went with some new key terms:

I eventually came to this SUPER great site.

It has a simple and understandable tutorial

explaining how to alter the design in using the 

new Blogger Template Designer.

WAY EASY!!!!!!


All I had to do now was go into the template designer and change the fonts and colors to the ones I wanted.
I then created a new banner.


(For awesome banner and button help see Nichelle
at Vintage Wanna Bee)


The final extra touch that I added was a Favicon.
You know that awesome mint green and white icon you see in the address bar.


Maria-Isabel at Agape Love posted about 
discovering an amazing tutorial.
Follow this link to Making Life A Bliss
so that you too can ROCK your own Favicon.

So, if you are like me and want something fresh, but not a copy of someone else's blog,

check it out and be brave.


I did have a little glitch where there were 
shadows behind my photos. 
I didn't want this. So I asked Paige from Pink Lemonade 
(She is such a doll) 
and she replied back with an answer in a jiffy.


Remember to ask questions.
The lovely ladies of blogland will answer.

I am sure I will continue to tweak it.
I still want to mess with the tabs and labels.