Blog designs

This is such old news by now, sorry lovely people! :) Thanks so much to all who entered my blog design giveaway - I truly enjoyed messing with y'alls blogs. All of you were so wonderful! The perfect blend of knowing what you want, and working with my inefficiencies.

Here are the blogs I was able to work on!

This is the lovely Bonnie's blog

The wonderful Marie

The precious Marli

The sweet Melissa

And last, but not least, the cute Naomi

So there you have it! Giveaways are so fun. :)

happy weekend!

A reminder

Hello Lovelies! 

Just a quick post to remind all of you that are on for a blog redesign - I need you to email me your stuff as soon as possible so I can get started! 

I can be working on them simultaneously, so don't worry about what number you are on the list, just send me your wish list. 

To refresh your memory on what I need, look here:  

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happy monday!

Giveaway winnerz!

It's time, it's time! Time to announce the winners of the blog design giveaway. 

Thanks to all of you who entered - I wish I could give the win to all of you! 

But wait...i can. Since I had only 4 people entering my giveaway, I thought: "You know - I have plenty of time to make headers and blogs...it's not costing me any money...there's only four...they can all win!" 

So to all my blog lovelies who entered the giveaway, here's what ya do:

(send me an email at lilndzy@aol.com telling me all the things below)

1. If you want just a header or a whole redesign.

2. If you want an entire site redesign you'll have to give me your info that let's me get into your blogger dashboard.

3. Tell me what you want your site to generally look like: Color schemes, text-only header, picture header, what genre of font you want in your header (fun, or elegant) - the works!

4. If you want a picture header\anything with pictures you have to send them to me.

I'll start with the blog lovely who entered the giveaway first, and work on down!

Bonnie

Marie

Marli

Naomi

Bloggin awards

(Hurry, go enter my blog design giveaway here, and don't forget to comment\email questions and topic suggestions for Ask the Experts!)

I feel so loved :')  Journey with Joy and lowercase letters  "awarded" me the Liebster blog award, and Girls Love Fried Pickles gave me the Versatile blogger award. Y'all shouldn't have...*scuffs foot*

I would list all the rules, and go on a tagging spree, but I'll skip it this time since these awards have been going around for a while now, and I'm pretty sure it's made it's way through my readers.  If you're reading this and haven't done it yet, then I tag you!

7 things about me:

1. Even though I only have to wear my retainers one or two nights a week, I usually end up wearing them every night. I just got into the habit.

2. I had this whole post typed out, but our power went out in the middle of loading the pictures so I lost it all, and now I can't remember the 7 things I had put down.

3. At the end of the day, sometimes I'll pile all my hair on the very top of my head and clip it. It looks ridiculous, but it's comfy and out of the way. 

4. I love aprons, but I almost always forget to put one on when I cook. When I do, it doesn't make a big difference, because if I get flour on my hands, I usually brush them on the back of my pants without thinking. 

5. I think hot chocolate is the best.

6. I have the bad habit of chewing on the inside of my cheek. 

7. Even though I'm tall, I still love to wear heels. 

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Tell me what you've been up to this week!

happy weekend!

Crochet projects and your input

When I was about 10 and Mom and I were in a craft store, I was staring at all the colorful yarn lining the wall, and then and there I knew I must crochet. I got a hook and some yarn and a crochet book and happily left the store, most likely imagining all the cool and professional stuff I would make. :)  Weell, even following along with the book, all I learned was the single crochet. In a square.  I couldn't make out what in the world stuff like "sc1R, YO2, hdc in BLO, ch2, dc in FLO" meant.  But that didn't stop me from making all sorts of terrifying pot holders.  Only a grandma would lovingly gush over a horrible mess of yarn that looked more like an outline of the United States than a square, and tuck it near the stove for the next time she needed to grab a hot pan.  Eventually I saw just how awful my projects were and turned to other hobbies.


Mom and I were in the States a couple of months ago, and I was visiting with my friend Lur who is a crochet genius.  I watched her crochet for a while, and tried to remember just what was so hard about crocheting. So...yes. I got a hook and some yarn at a craft store, only this time I *scuffs foot* wasn't exactly the most optimistic about how my projects might turn out.  Thankfully, I saw that now I could follow a pattern and learn new stitches just fine!  My projects still might look like a 10 year old did them, but I'm loving it all the same!  Here are just a few stuff I've done lately:

A doggie\monster hat

Simple beanie with scalloped edges

I love hats! This is my favorite because it's a beret, and it's mesh, so it's not bulky.

Queen Ann's Lace scarf

:') A lil hippo.  I may or may not talk to it...

Whenever I'm able to get supplies easily I want to learn to knit as well, along with getting good enough at crochet to hopefully sell some stuff here and there.

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I wanted to check in with y'all and see if you have any ideas of what more I should do with this lil ol' blog!  Is there anything you want to know about? Should I do vlogs more often? What should they be about?

Also, I want to do a giveaway, but since I don't have anything to actually give away at the present, what do y'all think about a blog design giveaway? I am by no means a pro, or even super good at it, but I love making headers, and makin' stuff look pretty!  It could be your choice of whether you'd like just a header, or a redo of your whole blog.

Tell me what y'all think!

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happy weekend!

Hello fall!

It's not exactly autumn where I am, but it is where most of you reading this are, so that being said, I decided it was time to change the look of my blog for fall!

It was a beautiful day here today.  The sun was shining, I got alot done, Panya was running around in the yard, and I sewed one of these.  It turned out super cute!  I'll have to take a picture and post it.  

Panya is settling in wonderfully!  We finally let her be down together with the other dogs yesterday.  Axe, the female, had no problem at all - just wagged her tail, but wasn't that interested.  Don, the male, didn't exactly have a problem either...but let's just say he's smitten.  Don, honey, I don't think it's going to work out between you.  Over and out.  We need to take Panya to the vet this week to get her booster shots.  We don't want any little beasties anywhere!

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Happy Tuesday!

Check it out!

Introducing...my recipe blog!  Make sure and click on the link up there  ^,  take a look, and tell me what you think!

That second blog design reminds me of a picture of my face on wide-angle

Yay for blog designing!

Even though I'm still trying to figure out how Gimp works and all that, it's alot of fun.  I've done four so far...just messing around with getting measurements, etc.  Let's take a look! {If you dare...mwahaha!}

 Try 1:  This took me a long time, and it's not the cutest.  I was too busy {looking back at the tutorial page a billion times to see what I should do} to worry about making it look too cute.  Maybe not toooo bad for a first try.  Except the really narrow space for your actual blog to go in.  *cough*

Try 2:  Cute basic look, but the ribbons are too stretched out looking, and {you can't see it in the picture, because it's over a white background} there's some space at the sides.  Still not quite sure what happened there.  The middle space was also still a little too narrow.

       Moving on...

Try 3:  I finally made the middle space wide enough {I think!}.  Looks pretty nice, except for the side ribbons could use some resizing to make them bigger.

Try 4:  Yay, I remembered to made the middle space wide enough again!  Maybe I'm starting to get the hang of it. :)

Lydia gets here tonight!  We'll leave for the airport after supper.  It's going to be so good having her here for a visit!  I almost feel like I should make her her own blog label.  Labels: "The List", Bible, Random, Eatables, Lydia....

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Happy Friday!

And you thought I changed my blog design alot before! :)

Lydia gets here tomorrow ~ Oh hooray!  :)  I love company that isn't "company".  You know, the "Oh good, you're here...you can help us make up your bed!" kind.  {Hehe!}, so maaaaybe not quite like that, but it's the general idea.  

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Please pray that her travel is smooth and that she arrives safely. 

:)

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I had been trying to find a program similar to photoshop I could download for free, because my mac didn't come with anything at all besides Preview.  I could do a couple things on it, but barely anything.  Sooooo *dun dun duuun*, I downloaded Gimp! {Thanks to recommendations from Kristen Jenkins and kevinandamanda.com.}  It's really neat!  I'm actually able to make headers and all that for my blog, and I can even design and make entire blog backgrounds!  {*excitement*}

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(Have you ever noticed that having a cute blog makes you feel like actually writing on it more often?)