Easy Does It

First of all, why did I use that title? I don't like little sayings like that. My dad used them a lot when I was little. It is on my list along with "simmer down," "calm down," "quit horsing around," and many others. But this is easy, so I want to share. I have been wanting to make my blog cute for a while. There are hard ways to do it, but there is also an easy way to do it! Thank you to Allison for sharing! (you can see her site- The Nelson's over to the side)

First I made my header picture in Photoshop. There are tons free sites to download really cute digital scrapbooking stuff- paper, images, ribbon, etc. Some of my favorites are Shabby Princess (shabbyprincess.com) and Summer Driggs (http://www.summertimedesigns.blogspot.com/), but they are all over the internet. Some sites are better than others. You can usually find like "freebies" or "downloads" that are free. Ok, so after you make what you want, you save it as a jpeg and then in the edit part of blogger, you just enter it in your header. There the option of inserting a picture. It took me a while to figure out the exact size to fit in the box from my blogger template. Mine is 648x343 pixels.

Then you can go to this really cute site- http://thecutestblogontheblock.com/index.php They have premade templates that are so easy to download. They are so cute! You could change it all the time b/c it is so easy! Down the left side just click on backgrounds. Then when it opens you can select "3 column backgrounds" Those look really good on your blog. They have really easy directions. Again, back at your edit page, you just insert their html code under one of the gadgets. So easy and fun! Good luck with it!

Here is a picture of the girls at a historical working farm we went to. I will post about it later! I love this picture though!