Just Like That, I am Back

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 If I said I was back, would you believe me? Blogging is complicated, and there are so many "get rich quick" blogging schemes that make it look like you are a lost cause if you are not currently earning money blogging. And why are you even blogging if you don't have multiple streams of income and entertainment. If you don't have a brand? I do have this website, but I do not have Instagram, Twitter, TikTok (you don't want to see me dance), or whatever is next.  Heck, I haven't even updated this since before the pandemic. So why am I here, writing about being back and then, probably ghosting for another two years? Life has been rough. It's been painful and overwhelming. I am so thankful for you my readers, or what is left of you. I am so thankful you are reading this post. I am so thankful that you are still committed to making the world a more exciting and more sustainable place.  Keep up-cycling my friends, and you never know, I might be back again with an
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My New Header

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Sidenote: I just could not figure Wordpress out so I am now rocking Blogger and loving it.

Okay so I am totally trying to figure this whole Wordpress thing out. I need to buy Wordpress for Dummies, but I just haven't gotten around to it (Ironically I was even at Barnes and Noble today so really, I have no excuse at all).

In order to pimp my blog I put together a little header. Here is the thing, I didn't really know what I what the heck I was doing, or how to do it. A while back I stumbled upon a series called Beautify Your Blog on a blog I stalk, I mean follow...




I think that the header turned out okay. Funny thing is I have the attention span of an ant and didn't read everything before I went ahead and played with photobucket. I just got so excited that she was telling me how to get out of my standard, dime a dozen, blog look and add some pictures.

I will be tweaking things in the coming weeks, but until then at least I have a semi original header.

So if you are blogging (especially if your are on blogger like Linda over at Diary of a Craftaholic) please check out her "Beautify Your Blog" series. You will not be sorry.

Oh yeah and her fourth post in the series taught me how to do this...

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