How to Be Like Me

**This is a sick update first**
Ace now has the fever.  Liam is still a bit feverish but that doesn't seem to slow him down for long.

Now to the fun stuff:

This is for my blogging friends so if you don't want to know about HTML, you might want to pass over this.

Frankly, I know nothing of HTML.  But I do know how to read.  I looked at a friend's blog this past weekend and thought I'd click on her link to blogger backgrounds.  After doing that, I selected one, and then realized it wouldn't work because of my header and it didn't have a matching header.  So, I went to the link provided to look for the e-paper to make my own header but was unsuccessful.  Thus, having royally messed up my blog, I decided to design my own blogger template.

I found Blogger Buster website which details steps on how to do a basic header/background and went to work.  There are other great articles on this blogsite too.  However I used the one titled, "A cheat's guide to customising blogger templates."

I already knew how to make a header using a basic publishing program (or you can use Photoshop or Gimp...the free version of photoshop...but I didn't have time to play around with Gimp so I went with my already well known program).

I found an absolutely awesome digital scrapbook site called AhhhScrap, where I found a very cute kit, Bug a Boo, to use the papers/elements with.  Now, it's important to note that I do not sell ads on my blog nor do I make any money on the blog, therefore, per the owner of the kit, I am using it for personal use.  These kits are made by different people and I'm guessing if you do sell stuff/make a blog profit, you could contact them to get permission to use and such.  After finding this website, I'm seriously considering going to all digital scrapbooks!  Any suggestions on where to get them printed after I finish them?

Anyway, I just followed the directions from the article and ta da...a new blog look.  I like it, although, I would like to put the bugs on the background but irfanview is being ornery about it.  Maybe later, as this little escapade took all morning to finish.

Next up, a blog button!  Wait for it...wait for it (it may be a while with all the sickies)