I’ve been longing for a Christmas blog look, but dreading the time that it takes for me to transfer all of my gadgets over to one of Lena’s beautiful designs. I noticed that my friend Rachel had a really cute new background, so I sneaked a peek at her source – The Cutest Blog on the Block. They have lots of free backgrounds, and one thing I love about the backgrounds is that they function as a simple gadget that you add to a “minima” template. Everything stays the same; just the background changes. Then you can go in and change your text colors and such as you like. My kind of simplicity.
P.S. I’ll admit, I changed the placement of the little link box. It looks so much more at home in the side column.