Now available for your fashion pleasure is my spring collection of fascinator/mini hats. In keeping with the theme of Easter this week  I thought I'd share with you this vintage clip. While my line of fascinators would make a lovely chapeau for the spring break, they are also make quite lovely Mother's Day gifts not to mention derby hats!Enjoy my spring collection at my Etsy shop by clicking

Many of my new readers have been enjoying my series of the modified 3 column Minima template I coded and am giving away under a CC 3.0.

It's basically just your normal 2 column minima with an extra side column.  There's one that's just perfect for free backgrounds by such fabulous designers as 1stFloorFlat, Itkupilli's Cute'n'Cool, the Background Fairy and more.  I call that model the "Skinny" because it's a slender one that fits the design specifications of most free backgrounds.

But I also developed templates with extra elbow room and I call them "Standard" and "Wide".  Think of them as ectomorphic, endomorphic and mesomorphic templates respectively.

I don't usually post items I'm selling in this -- my personal blog -- because I use my shop links for items I'm selling either directly or through Etsy. I do this as a courtesy to my readers because who wants to read stuff I'm selling (which is a lot) all the time? I sure don't. Unless I'm in the mood to shop.But today is going to be different. I'm cross-posting this gorgeous Easter Bonnet/Vintage

Lucky for me, the background on my blog is white so my readers and I often fail to notice the effects of transparent .GIF and .PNG files.

But in designing darker Blogger templates I've noticed that the issue comes up where supposedly "transparent" items have a white background. In a recent blog post from Susie Jefferson of 1stFloorFlat she offers some quick and dirty work around solutions and it's worth checking it out over there.

I just wanted to take a moment to explain what is going on.

The song says, ‘It’s not easy being green,’ but the song is about knowing who you are. And in it you can hear Jim [Henson's] message loud and clear. We should learn to love who we are and be proud of it. And that's the way we learn to love each other.” – Ray Charles

ZOMG!  Blogger is coming at you in a fresh cool way! Last week Blogger In Draft announced a new feature: the Blogger Template Designer!

Ever since I released my FREE modified 3 column Minima templates for the Blogger/Blogspot platform I've been asked a million questions on how to install'em.As I've suggested before (and now I'm gonna do it again) Sharnee at YummyLolly.com has a kick-ass tutorial that's all in text. It's concise, well written, and super informative.But if you're anything like me, I never read the directions. Nope!

Last week I offered up as a PIF item (Pay-It-Forward) on Etsy a free modified Minima template with three columns. As most people know, the original Minima template has only two columns. Now it's available in dark as you can see above. See the live demo here.Here's the specifications of this template's built-in features:The template is 940px wide with the main column coded at 500px and the side columns

Courtney from BeautyandtheBride just installed my 3 Column Minima (Wide) template and had the following question:I am in the midst of uploading the Minima wide three column template you created for blogger (Thank you!) and have a question. I have a banner/image that I would like to install on my blog. In the fonts and colors area I clicked on the border color to white, so there would not be any lines

OK all you crafty vixens. I think you're gonna like what I've got to blog about. Because today it's all about Aviary, an on-line multi-media suite that allows anyone to create, edit, and remix digital content directly from their favorite web browser.Each application on Aviary is named after a bird (hence the name) with programs such as Phoenix (an on-line image editor that's comparable to PhotoShop),

I know it's been awhile since I've done a featured artist video so it was with a very happy enthusiasm that LuLu Kellogg from CoastalSisters.com commissioned me to make this piece featuring her latest collection of dark and nefarious art!  It just love how goth it all is. Bua-ha-ha!What's also cool is LuLu was unable to decide which piece of music to go with her video so she ordered two -- one

Featured here is an image for free modified Blogger/Blogspot Minima template featuring three columns that I coded myself. As most people know, the original Minima template has only two columns. See the live demo here.Here's the specifications of this template's built-in features:The template is 940px wide with the main column coded at 500px and the side columns at 185px. Peek-a-boo navigation