Once I start thinking about something, it’s hard for me to put it away.  You may have noticed that after long periods of absence, I’ve posted for a few days straight.  The snow–and another dump on its way at this very moment–has given me time to sit in from of my computer and blog.  It’s hardly surprising, then, that now I am itching to update my theme. 

I paid someone to create this WordPress theme, even though I wrote my website myself.  My learning curve on DecorateYourSpace.net was so huge I was just too tired to even try.  I didn’t use a content management system, so it was backbreaking work for a total novice like myself to try to learn code.  When I ran across an opportunity to have a theme created for me cheaply, I went for it.  I have never been happy with the results.  It is just too cluttered for my taste. 

I want something simple and clean on the body.  The current layout feels too squished for me.  But I want a very interesting and energetic background, on the place where I have teal with a few stripes now.  I am thinking about creating a collage for this area with pictures of things that make me happy, not strictly decorating per say, but of things that speak to a lifestyle.  (Like the image my friend George took this summer at the beginning of this post.) And I am thinking of removing “Create a Sense of Place, Decorate Your Space” and adding something along the lines of “The Diary of a Decorator balancing clients and teenage daughters and blah blah blah while reigning in the occasional desire to take over the world.”  In order for new readers will know what they’re in for…

 I think I am going to delete the ads.  They certainly don’t pay me enough to compensate for how ugly most of them are.