April Collage for Mosaic Monday

The other day I created a new Header for my Blog. I used the program at Picnik to create the collage.

Here are the images I used and was considering.  They are all so beautiful!  

This is from an old Alice in Wonderland book.

I got the images from The Graphic Fairy, Magic Moonlight and Photobucket. I love to work with Vintage Images and the first two places has tons of them. The best part is that they are free! I have a list of other free images on my blog roll page (toward the bottom).  Please feel free to "steal" them from me.




I'm linking this to:


Mosaic Monday @  The Red House
http://www.dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/


and
Brag Monday @  Graphic Fairy

and

Janell, of Isabella & Max Rooms has Created "House of 50" a new e-zine

   Today I found out that one of my favorite bloggers, Janell Beals from Isabella & Max Rooms has co-started a new Internet Magazine called "House of 50".  The e-zine is coming out in April.

I have been reading Janell's blog for over 6 months now and love what she does.  She is an interior designer and does tons of do it yourself projects.  She is very motivational too.  I have sent her emails and comments and she takes the time to write me back.  She was very encouraging to me about some of the things I want to do with my life in the future, despite my fibromyalgia.  She said she admired my spirit.  Coming from someone, like her, really made me feel good.

  Janell was on the Nate Berkus Show recently.  Many design bloggers were invited to his show, but Janell actually was in one of his segments.  On this show she talked about some of her DIY projects. 

Please go to Janell's blog and see her great projects and go and subscribe to her new e-zine, "House of 50".  If you are like me, love beautiful homes and great DIY projects then you will love her blog and future e-zine.

Chick Click Carnival

I've joined the Chic Click Carnival.  See the instructions in this blog to find out how to win one of three prizes. 


This is not simply a linky party, the purpose of the “Chic Click Carnival” is to introduce yourself and one fellow peep you found using the Visit Our Peeps widget. (more info below).

All submissions are competing to be the host of next Thursdays click carnival who will receive hundreds of new visitors. There will be two additional winners, one for the giveaway and one for a Free 6 Month subscription to the widget. This weeks judge is Cindy from Skip To My Lou.

* If you would like to giveaway a product over $50 and be featured, let us know.

Last Thursday’s Winners

The Host for the Chic Click Carnival this week is Creative Kristi {{high fives!}}

Bloggy Blog Designs winner is Charm Bracelet Diva

Visit Our Peeps winner is Simply Created

How To Play

All are welcome to link a post to win a fabulous prize from a Visit Our Peeps widget Mom-preneur. Contest ends Thursday at midnight. Entries for this carnival need to incorporate the following or it will be removed:



A brief introduction of yourself, don’t forget to link to your favorite post.

“My favorite peep of the week” you found using the Visit Our Peeps widget with a link to their blog and/or shop.

Visit Our Peeps widget inside the post for people to find their new peep. Here is the code:





The Three Prizes


Friday, Cindy will pick three Linky participants randomly.

1. Grand Prize: One winner will be next weeks host of the Chic Click Carnival.

2. Another winner will receive a FREE 6 month membership to the Visit Our Peeps widget.

3. The third winner will receive a Life-Squared Wax Baby Hands & Feet from Julian & Co, a $129 value.

JULIAN & Co. jewelry is about love for families, was created by a fashion forward mom when she couldn’t find a baby bracelet small enough to fit her premature son, Julian. Each piece is handcrafted and personalized to order.


These are my answers:

My favorite peep is:


http://jannawilson.typepad.com/thewhimsyshoppe/

When I first started to blog I thought you created a new blog for each post. Then after seeing other blogs I realized what I was suppose to do. I started over and have this as my blog. Anyways, the link is one of my earliest blogs/posts that I had created. I was really proud of myself!!

My favorite blog post is: http://wizardofoz2009.blogspot.com/

First Blog Post

Mona @ More Milestones is doing a new blog promotion about first posts.
 Link to More Milestones

This is embarrassing! When I first started to blog I created a new blog instead of new posts (oops!). I had great ideas but.. After a few months I realized what I had done wrong. I was really good at blogging at first and then I wasn’t. Then I wanted to switch to godaddy’s blog but realized that wasn’t easy, so I recently switched back to blogger. I switched back after finding blogfrog. Blogfrog has been a life saver in more ways than one.

Here is a link to my first blog:

http://barbieskenaslegolasfromlordofthering.blogspot.com/

Here are some of my favorite blogs that I've done before blogfrog:

• http://wizardofoz2009.blogspot.com/
• http://katharinebarbie.blogspot.com/
• http://katharinescats.blogspot.com/

Now I'm working on Creating Pages on my Blog

I don't know why I'm so stuborn that I have to do this myself.  I want the freedom to change my blog backgrounds but I also want it to look good and read smoothly. Sigh!!  I should pay someone to do this but....   If you scroll down the blog you can see that I'm making an attempt.  I'm also trying to get my layout to work.  Sigh!  I follow the directions and then it says  go to this or that page and I can't find it.

Later on today I finally figured out what to do.  I needed to move up my gadgets after I had changed the layout templates.  So I have carefully copied and pasted my button, my fellow blogger buttons and more.