A Bit of Housekeeping

Well, you might be wondering where all this RED came from, and you know, I'm kind of wondering that myself, lol!

Last night, on a whim, just before powering off, I decided to peruse the Typepad design palette a bit. (Jennifer and Meredith had me feeling a little itchy!) I thought I would see if there might be a soft taupe or gray for the background, something more subdued - less springy - for the winter season. Well, I did find a shade of gray and I "tried" it on, but instead of hitting Preview, I hit Save Changes!

And, of course, the gray was all wrong, and I immediately wanted my old blue back - and fast! - but when I went to find my old blue, I realized my blue is not the same blue as the one offered in the palette! Ack! To get back to my original blue I would have to strip down back to my original template and refresh the whole kit-and-kaboodle (i.e. remember all the font and design choices I made way back when).

Oh, what a mess. And this was all unfolding mere minutes before bedtime, too, when I have little, if no, patience for such things. So casting about wildly for something more cheerful than the gray, I decided to try on the deep red ... and here it is! And it doesn't look too bad, does it? (You can tell me if it does!) I thought it might be somewhat Christmas-y ... and it does pick up the roses in my banner ... so maybe I'll call this my Winter Rose template and we'll see what I can do about all this in the spring!

In other blog news ... I am slowly updating my booklists and notes along the sidebars. Wow, were those things out of date! I'll be retiring all the Autumn lists and photo albums and posting some Winter and Christmas ones soon.

And finally - last call for Field Day! I will be posting the Late Autumn Edition tomorrow, so if you'd like to enter something, please send me an email today! And many thanks to all the participants so far!

Hope your day is a happy one!