New Blog Design + a Giveaway!

New blog design alert! It’s always exciting when you get something new and shiny! This was designed by the very talented gals behind These Paper Blogs - Megan and Chri! Thank you so much girls for this beautiful design! I was looking for a something that would look elegant, less busy, and more vintage-y than my previous one, and from their portfolio I found their designs to have a lovely clean aesthetic which was the basis for what I wanted. In 2012, when I first sought a blog design from Jenny at Inside the Kaleidoscope, I really had no idea of what I wanted. And what she came up with was both unexpected and perfect. Going into a second redesign, I had more of a notion of what I wanted for my blog so this time around I was more involved with the process, and sending little tweaks and ideas to Megan and Chri. It’s turned out better than I could have hoped though - actually I think the new design has a sort of semblance to the movie poster for the recent Jane Eyre - in the color and the head silhouette -

Kind of?

which is perfect for me of course! And I think it was just serendipitous!

Megan and Chri were just delightful to work with, I sometimes felt bad about all the emails I sent their way with my harebrained ideas, but they were ever gracious and accommodating. I love the look of their designs, and it is all at such affordable prices! They were always prompt at responding to my emails as well which is particularly great because for someone as impatient as me, the wait to see what the designer comes up with is painful, but regular communication eases my fretfulness!

To celebrate my new blog design, I’m having a little Amazon Gift Card giveaway for $25! And because I’ve added a few more social networks to my blog sidebar, there are quite a few options to gain more entries. (Sorry about the social media overload!)  I have come to the sad decision to get rid of Google Friend Connect... Umm mostly because Google has taken it out of their updated widget lineup and I can no longer access the code.  They replaced it with a Google+ widget and no thanks.  Bloglovin is my preferred follow method now anyway!

And if you are one of the lovely, fantastic people to have my blog button on their blog, I would really appreciate it if you could update it with the new button! Thank you lovely fantastic person!

• Open Internationally
• One Gift Card to one winner
• The giveaway ends in two weeks, and the winner will be promptly contacted. The winner must reply to the email within 48 hours or a new winner will be chosen.

And again please check out These Paper Blogs if you are looking for a new design!  And thank you so much for visiting my blog! :)


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My old design for the memories: