Rose Garden in Winter

My name is Leslie and I am an addict.

Of perfectionism.

I have spent too too TOO many hours perfecting the look and feel that I want to express on this blog. To the point that I finally went too too TOO far by attempting to upload a custom font to Blogger (the nerve). Not only did I spend several hours following the very well-defined steps by Kevin and Amanda on their uber-cute blog only to have my font conversion efforts thwarted by some Microsoft "we don't recognize the program that created this" gar-bage [insert French accent here], but then all Hades let loose and suddenly a new background that I only temporarily tried on took possession of my blog and wouldn't let go its grip.

It was more HOURS. I had so run out of ideas that I was ready to create a whole new blog and import. But I didn't trust that THAT would work either. And the repercussions were too horrible to consider.

Finally I offered up a prayer. Why is it that we (or at least I) turn to prayer as a LAST resort rather than a FIRST one?

Within a few minutes, I had a new stratagem, was led to new links, found this much-more perfect background than I was previously using (which, HORRORS, had not matched the shade of blue-green in my banner), AND discovered the why of the other resurfacing background. All within fifteen minutes of a feeble prayer.

Don't believe? Try it yourself sometime. Just don't wait hours.
So a BIG thanks to my Lord and Savior and a shout-out to The Background/Graphics Fairy for my rose garden in the depths of my winter of discontent.

P.S. So whaddaya think of my blog anyway? Tell Mother All About It!

How to Cure a Headache

It's nice to have a blog to work on when you're supposed to be giving your head a rest. In a lot of ways I did anything but. But it gave me the excuse I needed to spend two days fiddling and tweaking and finally until I finally got everything the way I imagined it to be.
I had so wanted 3 columns. At Three Column Blogger , I met the man of my dreams who easily, step-by-step, took me through the process of converting a typically boring Blogger template. He even can tell you how to adjust the width of the columns.
Now that I had my 3 columns, I needed a background to fit. But I still had to have a bird theme. And feminine, but not too cutsie. Some searching and I found my fairy godmother (after finding Prince Three-column) at The Background Fairy Today's entry was the Vintage Bird which I retinted in my Photosuite editing program. Et voila.
What do you think?