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I decorated for the holidays!!

November 18, 2011 by Susan Leave a Comment

Well, not exactly. But I decorated the blog for the holidays! Today is the first COLD day of the season… I think we have a high temperature of 45 today! Shiver me timbers!! With Thanksgiving next week and the radio stations already playing Christmas music (yes, I have been listening to it!!) it has gotten me in the mood to decorate. HOWEVER. I have a rule. I cannot start decorating for Christmas until the day after Thanksgiving. Some of you who are over achievers and already have lights on the outside of your house may disagree with me, but I think we need to give Turkey Day it’s month to shine!

Since I do not break rules (very often!) I decided that I could decorate the blog! Last week my sister sat down with me and gave me a Photoshop 101 training session. Who knew the possibilities! I sat there in complete dismay when she showed me how people “design” things. I have now discovered brushes and patterns, so I am on to most of your tricks now!

I ended up designing my own Christmas card - which I can’t show you because then it won’t be much of a surprise when they show up in your mailbox next month! But I have also designed a few of our “Girl’s Night Out” invites!

I also took the blog header from this:

to this:

TO THIS!

So now I am ready to start getting festive! It’s the Friday before Thanksgiving! Time to start prepping the food and thinking about the holidays! Planning events and plotting a Black Friday bargain shopping escape route! Enjoying the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and a huge meal with the fam! (Pretty sure with relatives coming into town we won’t have our new tradition of ‘family beer pong’ this year…) And now the blog is all dressed up I am ready to share all of my holiday souvenirs with you! Have a happy weekend friends!

Facelift Time!

March 15, 2011 by Susan Leave a Comment

So after a ton of blog-surfing last week I decided that “2 cats & chloe” needed a little bit of a facelift. I played around with it a bit today… still not too sure about the changes that I made but boy did I learn things!

A few blogging accomplishments I am proud of today:

1. I discovered shabbyblogs.com and all of their free loveliness! This site has tons of free goodies! AND they have great detailed descriptions about how to use the free templates and designs they offer. I haven’t had enough time to completely dig into this blog but I’m already a huge fan! (I grabbed the background from this page… what do you think?)

2. Shabby Blogs lead me to kevinandamanda.com which is loaded with FREE fun fonts! This is where I got the font for my blog title/ header and I love it. I am hoping to find a few free minutes tomorrow to try to figure out how to change my post titles and side bars to the same font. I ran into a bit of trouble with getting a hostwebs account to get that done. Go figure that today was THE day when they were working on the page and it would not work.

3. I learned how to create my own 2 cats & chloe blogging button!! I’m not expecting it to become wide spread, but I was pretty impressed at how “legit” this makes me feel! The one I created today is super simple. I took the same font I used for the blog header (from kevinandamanda.com) and put it in a little button box. I’m thinking I need something prettier, but for now… this will do the trick!

So bloggers! Give me your thoughts! What else should I be adding/ doing? I have a few more things that I want to add still, like a page or link for “Project: Glimmer” - a project I started last year, and hope to get running again soon. I have always been intrigued and in love with blogging for some reason, and I have had multiple blogs in the past. I’m not really sure when or where the intrigue began, but I think I owe it to one wise doctor from the early nineties: Check out this post I wrote in college. I even did one of my senior projects at JMU on Online Communities. Who would’ve known how much things could change in just 5 years.

So give me your two cents, or your two dollars worth of opinions. What works for you? What should I consider? Keep in mind there is no real point to this blog other than to document and share my life, my projects and my adventures. As always, your comments are much appreciated!

I heart Blogland.

March 11, 2011 by Susan 1 Comment

I am all about adventures! I love exploring new places, meeting new people, and navigating through the unknown. Tonight I bonded a little bit more with Blogland. Did you know that you can get lost in new country (which I’m lovingly naming “Blogland”) without even taking your passport out of the lockbox?!

You can try new foods and recipes people share. You can take in tons of different cultures and religions. The crafts… the crafts are endless!! (Maybe that is because I tend to follow crafty blogs) Music! Just like when visiting a new city or country, you can pick up tons of new, different, and hip tunes in Blogland. I love photography, and have such a desire to learn more about my camera. Believe it or not, this too is possible in Blogland!! I feel like I have become friends with some of my fellow Bloglanders as I read through their stories of adoptions, or vacations (real ones, not Blogland ones), or working crazy jobs I have never even dreamed of doing. I have “met” people who are just like me and love, love, LOVE planning parties and celebrating the most random things. Best of all I have been inspired by so many Bloglanders to try new projects, reflect on other opinions, learn new skills, or plan my next big adventure!

I’m not really sure of blogging etiquette; if it even exists or are certain things deemed “rude” in Blogland? When someone finds a new blog she loves and links to it in her own blog, does she inform the newfound blog’s blogger? Someone explain this to me because tonight I added a whole slew of new “blogs i love” to my google reader list.

Also, how in the world do some of these girls have hundreds (dare I say in some cases thousands!!) of followers! Not that I need followers, because I am well informed that my boyfriend and my mom read my blog every now and then. But how is that even possible!? I guess, maybe by chance, someone will travel from one blog to the next like I did this evening, and fall upon 2 cats and chloe. I love how I started with checking out one girls photography blog from Texas and it opened the door to 50 (easily) new found blogs I love.

After some great exploring tonight I have been inspired to revamp the look of 2 cats and chloe at some point in the future. I just spent three days sick in bed with the flu, so catching up on work comes first… but mark my words, this blog will see a face lift soon.

So friends, fill me in on blogging etiquette. Share your blog with me. Or just secretly enjoy the random ramblings and silly projects that you may have just stumbled across.