I want to thank Karen over at The Background Fairy for her selection of free blog backgrounds and banners, as well as links to helpful instructions.
On her site she shares many great options, for instance this runner up frame for our blog banner:
Web page development, graphic design, and Photoshop have been new adventures here at Vintage Gypsy. The need to add a more professional look to the blog contributed to several silent months due to frustration, and for many weeks my fledgling (at best) web design skills and the need for an update were at an impasse. The laptop nearly went flying out the window. More than once.
Karen's beautiful, free, and relatively idiot proof designs made a huge difference. Her suggestions and tutorials kept things in motion. The result is a much lovelier Vintage Gypsy home in blog land!
In addition, Karen also hosts The Graphics Fairy page, which delights me with endless images for decorating the house. Whenever I visit this blog I am inspired to create something wonderful. So go check it out to find downloadable images like these:
Her typography graphics are particularly inspiring for those of us who add flair to old furniture:
Hope these sites inspire your creativity as much as they do mine!
PS, A very generous and helpful gypsy husband also deserves credit for moving the blog design process forward. Someone in this house has to have patience when the computer just won't do what you want.
