It may not be groundbreaking, but hopefully you’ve noticed the bit of redesigning that’s gone on here since the blog was dark this summer. All those florals and fall-like patterns on the header, slider and outer regions of this site were created from the enchanting offerings on view at Avalon Rose Design. This is my first purchase of graphics from anywhere, proposed by webmaster extraordinaire Skip (Mr. M.) Previously I thought I could get away with finding what I needed with a simple Google image search. But where’s the honor in that? And where’s the support to creators and artists? Anyway, I found Avalon Rose Design and fell in love with the antiquated and vintage-like images they have. It was exactly the look and feel I was going for when trying to make things a little prettier here.
The way they’re put together may be rudimentary at best, but that’s all on me, as I basically had to teach myself the most basic maneuvers in the nightmare that is Photoshop. (As most of my photos likely attest, I hardly ever use it.) I just wanted to share the source material in case you want to make something similar.
As for these designs, give the repetitive intricacies of making such beauty, I’ll likely keep them to a minimum as far as revamps go – perhaps with a seasonal change for when winter arrives next. We’ll see. No promises = no expectations = no stress. Besides, these are so nice I’d like to leave them up for a while. When you find a lovely set of curtains you don’t put them up for a few weeks only to take them down again.
