YAY! Check out my new Header!

P. Covington of Shabby in the City and Adrienne from With a Grateful Heart were kind enough to advise me on how to change my header. It has been a mystery to me, a simple and apparently technically challenged woman, for all the months I have been blogging. Oh, how I longed to have a fancy, lovely header on my blog like I saw on so many others! Well, thanks to these lovely ladies I know how to change it! It was simple and right there in front of me all that time, but I needed someone to point out the how to of it all. Thank you both so much! By the way, Ms. Covington was my bookmark swap partner and has just today, posted about my bookmarks and several others she got in the swap here. So if you want to see what I sent her, stop on over and take a look. Adrienne has a lovely blog too, one I enjoy very much. I encourage you to take a peek here. I doubt that this header will be my permanent one, in fact, if there is one thing I like to do it is change things around, but I sure had fun messing with it!
Thanks again ladies!

Help!

Can anyone tell me how to insert my own header in Blogger? I can make my own, I just have no idea how to change the HTML, what to change, do I need to delete the old code to insert a new one for the header? Is there a tutorial out there about it? There are so many gorgeous headers out there and I want one! Please help !

Ever have a last minute gift and no tissue paper? My daughter has a bridal shower to attend tonight and came home with the gift thinking we had lots of wrapping goodies (I usually do).
She found a bag but no tissue. I remembered that we had some cellophane on a roll downstairs that I have had FOREVER. I actually like it better than tissue. It isn't wrinkly, didn't rip, stands up out of the bag prettily and for extra measure, I sprinkled pretty little iridescent heart shaped confetti (from my matchbox swap partner!)in the cellophane. It stuck to the wrap with static and now the glittery pink confetti adds another dimension and some glitz! What started out as a way to solve a problem may become the way I do all my gift bags!

I wanted to share with everyone the beautiful trellis that my sweet husband made for me and put up on the side of the pergola outside our back door. I have an annual mandevilla vine growing up it right now. I will try to take it in over the winter and see if I can save it, but I have no experience with Madevilla so I don't know if it will work. Anyone ever overwintered this type of plant?

Also, here is a view of the trellis from the other direction and you can see how high some of my hollyhocks have grown. The Pergola is about 8 feet high and the hollyhock is getting really high. It seems to still be growing, I hope it wont get knocked down when the rain comes. I think I will tie it to the structure somehow to prevent it.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. The weather here is going to be perfect, in the 70's (it is about 66 right now!) and sunny. I am heading outside to do some lawn and garden work and enjoy the beautiful weather.

I am in the summer doldrums with this blog. It isn't that I have nothing going on, maybe I have too much. I am in the midst of painting the living room, doctors appointments, trying to get a handle on my art and get things accomplished. There is almost too much to write about. I will share this cute pic of one of the hens in the daisies for now. Hopefully I will be more inspired soon.