Thursday, September 10, 2009

Big Compliment for BBD!


Beautiful Blog Designs has received an honor that touches my heart! Kristin from Designs So Pretty has picked BBD as a pretty blog design. Now, you know how much I have tweaked and played with the design and layout of this blog (with the help of Summer), and how important I feel good design is, so you know that this feature is one I cherish! Thank you, Kristin!

I highly recommend you popping over the Designs So Pretty because she features beautiful blogs and you may get ideas for future designs for your blog, or see things you'd like to try on your site.

And, just to let you know, Kristin is an amazing designer, with many of her designs on "Beautiful Blogs" list for future features. Check out her design site, Simply Whimsy Designs.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Beautiful Blog Series: Make Music From Your Heart



The blog I am featuring for this week's Beautiful Blog Series is Make Music From Your Heart to the Lord. The owner of this blog is Sara, a charming mother of three and pastor's wife, who writes about her family, sewing, photography, home projects and lots more.

 
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Sara's beautiful blog design was only recently installed (last week of August), and I stumbled on to her blog just a couple of days afterward and fell in love with the simple yet elegant design.

Here are some things about the blog that I appreciate:
  • The wonderful layout of pictures in the header and how they tell a story about Sara and her blog. 
  • The light blue background color is soothing and inviting
  • I love, love the rich brown used for the border and header and sidebar images, with just a splash of red to liven it up.
  • She also utilizes a navigation bar to help keep her sidebars from being too cluttered and make her blog more user friendly for her readers.
Another selling point to Sara's blog is that not only is her design beautiful, but her content is as well. Her posts are not too long, they are well broken up (making it easy to read) and full of pictures which help even more in sharing an idea or relaying a story.




Make Music From Your Heart to the Lord's design was created by Jackie at Memories by Design, who has created many gorgeous blog designs! 

Congratulations, Sara, on having such a lovely blog! If you would like to share this feature with your blog friends in a post or in your sidebar, here is a button for you.


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New Readers: Wondering how I choose the blog to feature as a "beautiful blog?" This post details what I look for in a blog. If you know of another beautiful blog (that meets the criteria listed in the post I referred), please leave the address in a comment or email me.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Added Designers to the List

I didn't find any great new tutorials to share with you, but I did find a few (new to me) designers to add to my blog designer directory. If you have never heard of them, take a look because they are all very talented!

Butterfly Spark Designs
Farm Fresh Creative
Memories by Design
The Posh Box Blog Design