I am slowly getting there with my design. I took away the entire page background tile and have made it a nice neutral, easy to read color. I made the background parchment tile into a torn piece of paper and have it behind each post title. Took a couple of days to get it to […]

Today is hubby’s birthday. I have been working on his present since last night. I downloaded two CD’s he’s been wanting and tonight have been trying to sneak around getting them burned onto CD’s with pretty labels and put into his MP3 player (piece of junk Mobiblu Cube, don’t ever get one!).
Anyway, it is now […]

So, I took advantage of the holiday break to work on my blog. I didn’t completely give up. I found some “blank” themes done by Will at Tomorrow’s Laundry, and have been plugging away at designing my look. As you can see, it is not there yet, but it is getting there.
I found the unicorn […]

Before I run off to dream strange dreams… I just wanted to share the types of trees I am interested in right now. We were supposed to go to the mountains last weekend to see the changing leaves, but hubby wasn’t quite up for it. We hope to go this weekend. When we do, I […]

I stopped by the grocery store today and was astonished to see cut Christmas trees already lining the sidewalk outside the store. The earliest I have seen trees for sale in the past (with the exception of fake trees) has been the day after Thanksgiving. We have two more days before the “official” start of […]

I have become quite frustrated lately with trying to develop my own theme for my blog. I can design a site with no problem, and implement it fairly well, but designing and working with a blog is somehow beyond me.
I looked at many blog themes and found one developed for Blogger that I loved. I […]

I had planned on designing this blog and my professional blog three months ago, and here we are with the silly “Hello world” post still sitting there. Quite the embarrassment.
 So I’ve decided. I am going to start with this very boring look for right now and add things as I have time to do so.