New Look !!

Well, what can I say, but gee whiz, I really like it! Took a few attempts to get things the way I was happy with it ... and I'm sure Lisa has a voodoo doll made of me (perhaps that explains my ill health issues over the last few weeks?!! LOL) - but the final version I can certainly live with!

My main problem was that I had my heart set on having a paua shell background (you're right, Sharon - that's exactly what it is!), and I'd had some wrapping paper back in NZ that I thought would be perfect ... Mum got sent on a shopping mission, but unfortunately the paper she found wasn't the same - anyway, Lisa obviously managed to find a different graphic somewhere, and it looks pretty good ... I just love the colours of the paua shell, I think the purples and blues are just stunning! So that was the touch of my Kiwi homeland ... as well as starting to fulfil my "blue" fetish ... and the ducks of course had to be on the page to tie in with my blog title. To add a little bit extra, I had the little photo added next to the comments sections, which is a photo we took on holiday driving to Adelaide earlier this year with Mum - it's a photo of the Twelve Apostles, on the Great Ocean Road ... so that's also a little touch of my current home, Australia :)

Now I can play a little bit with the sidebars etc - unfortunately with the colours changing, you can't see the progress bars anymore, so I need to try and work something else out there, plus centre the WIP's etc. Every time I look at this new blog it makes my whole body go "Ahhhhh" - I feel very positive and 'centred' when I see it ... it is definitely "me" :)

I finished the beading on the pansy pin pillow thingo this morning before I went to work, but I thought I won't bother posting a piccie until I've stitched it together into the actual pillow - with any luck I'll get that done some time tomorrow ...