Shabby Miss Jenn Designs

Well having created my blog earlier this week, I set about looking for ways of making it look more attractive.
I experimented with some free backgrounds but I didn’t like the way that the blog moved and the borders didn’t.
So I started looking at blog header designs for sale and quite by chance came across Shabby Miss Jenn Designs.
If you are looking for a blog kit or kits for Digi Scrapping, then you simply must take a look at her fantastic range of ridiculously inexpensive kits. Click on the beautiful smj button at the bottom of the page.
Anyway, it did take me a while to decide as they are all so gorgeous, but eventually I chose this one - French Attic.
So I click on Paypal and before you know it I have a download with instructions, HTML codes to copy and paste into Blogger and the most delicious selection of images to add text to.
In addition to the instructions, there are great tutorials on her site too, but working on the basis that I have never even used picture hosting websites before, I must admit I did struggle a bit.
So what followed was for me at least, a very steep learning curve – think Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Mount Everest and you should begin to get the idea – but a couple of days later I got there and I hope you’ll agree that it’s looking pretty cool now.
By the way did you know that the 2009 Everest Challenge was in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care? I didn’t.
If you want to read more, or make a donation, take a look at this link: http://www.mariecurie.org.uk/supportus/fundraising/everest/
Finally, if you want to read more about the designer - Shabby Miss Jenn - use this one: http://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/treatofthemonth/shabbymissjenn/
Read all the way down to the bottom and below the images you'll find another link - scrapbook bytes gallery - where she has twenty pages of the most beautiful layouts. Where does she find the time?
Take care.

Bank Holiday Blog

So here it is, my first attempt at blogging. For some time now I have pondered the idea of creating a blog but you know how it is - life sort of gets in the way. Anyway, armed with a spare morning, as it is a Bank Holiday here in Wales today, I finally decided to dip my toe in the water and set up a page.
It's taken a few hours and more than a few deleted attempts, for a not too computer literate person like myself to get to grips with setting up the actual blog itself, but overall I'm quite pleased with the result and can no longer count myself in the population of blog virgins.
I am going to set myself a hopefully achievable initial target of blogging every couple of weeks - that way I shouldn't disappoint myself!
For today then, I will just say that you will already have learned something about me from my choice of windows in the side bar.
I enjoy scrapbooking and thought it would be good to have a daily quote.
Last but not least I want to share with you all my love of Colorado and simply couldn't get by without my daily fix of these beautiful photo's.
Take care.