I have a new theme available for download - In the blue. It features one of my recent photographs, which I happen to really love. If you’d like to download this theme, which you can see in the screencap below, feel free to hop on over to my themes page.

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I hope you enjoy the theme!

First off; several have asked for a 3 column Wordpress theme. Your wish is my command, but it’s going to be a few days before I release it. I’m also going to work on making the themes widget-friendly, which will take a little time.

Secondly; I’ll be announcing a new contest sometime tomorrow. I figured since the most recent contest went so well, featuring Lori’s jewelry, I’d do a second contest featuring another piece. She had originally planned on letting me select a piece for myself and as much as I love her jewelry and would love a piece, I love you guys too. I rarely wear jewelry enough to buy it on a regular basis and I figured someone else would get better use out of it! I am having Lori create a customized piece for my mother for mother’s day though and I can’t wait to see it!

Thirdly; It is snowing so hard out right now, that it looks more like rain than snow. I had gotten so excited earlier this week, to see the snow we had from a couple of weeks back finally start to melt. I really should have known better than to think that would last very long. This is what it looks like out of the dinning room window.

Fourthly; I stayed up late last night so that I could watch the Calgary Flames (my favorite sports/hockey team in the whole wide world.. lol). We are only able to watch hockey on Saturday’s because of the programming here, which stinks - I miss watching nearly every game like we were able to do in Calgary. I was sad to see my team lose but I guess you win some, you lose some right?

Fifthly; Are you ready for some football? Who’s watching the Super Bowl tonight? This is actually the first year, in 6 years, that Jo’s been “off” and able to see it. He’s pretty excited about it. We’re having a small Super Bowl party, or I should say they are. Football isn’t my thing, I only watch it for the commercials (haha). To those who will watch it: Who are you rootin’ for? Jo’s hoping the Patriots will win and close out with a perfect season. I couldn’t care less about who wins to be honest. There’s only one football team that I can actually tolerate watching and that’s the Georgia Southern Eagles which is a college team (Go big blue).

I have released a new theme - Striped Flowers.

It features browns, greens and seafoam blue, along with pretty flowers and stripes. In the theme folder you will notice 3 headers; one which already has text on it, one identical to that which has no text and another which has no text, no flowers. You will also notice 2 footers; one with text and one without and 2 sidebar images; one with text and one without. These were provided do that customizing the theme even further, to add your own personal touch by adding your own unique text or fonts can be achieved easily.

To view a live demo or to download this theme, you may visit my themes page.

I hope that you’ll enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed working it up.

EDIT2; I was informed by a friend (thank you Shelly) about this last night - Smashing Magazine (scroll down to the “2. simple / minimalistic themes”), you’ll see two of “me” there. That makes me feel great.

EDIT; If you downloaded this theme prior to 7PM EST, please know that I had to update the single.php file to exclude the wordcount plugin. My apologies.

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I have created a new theme for Wordpress. It’s called “A Winter Delight”. If you decide to download and use this theme, please note that there is a blank header image, along with a blank sidebar image in the event that you’d like to create your own sayings on those. There is also an extra sidebar image for the archives. But again, you can use the blank one to create your own, to match the theme.

Do download, simply visit my Wordpress themes page, which you will find here (or by clicking “WP Themes” from the sidebar menu).

I used my current theme as a base for “A Winter Delight”. I hope you enjoy it.

I have released a modified version of the Alternate0 theme called Paisley, which was originally created by Theron Parlin of E5media.com and Thoughtmechanics.com. Every time I’ve modified this theme for my personal use, many people email me and ask if they can use the modifications. I contacted Theron and asked for permission to release those modified versions for other people to download (all credits remain). He gave me the OK. The original theme is one of my favorites and is the theme I’m using for the current design on Scribblescratch.com.

If you’d like to download the theme, which is captured in the screencap below, you can do so by visiting the themes page or by clicking here to download it directly. Once you’ve downloaded and unzipped the theme, you will notice there are 2 header images. One already has text on it while the other does not. Feel free to add your own personal touches to either of those.

PS; I’m running a contest!

Coming soon, on Scribblescratch.com;

I don’t know if you feel the same way I do but I love getting new readers and finding cool, new blogs to read. I’ve made the decision that starting in December I will feature a blog a week. I’ll probably have a small submission form in case anyone would like to suggest some of your own favorites.

You’ll also want to make sure that you keep checking back in the next 24-48 hours. Why? Because not only will I be releasing a new Wordpress theme, I’m also going to release a new contest. The contest is going to be a little different in that it will benefit me, you and other bloggers. I’m not going to go into detail about it until I do the real post about it but I’m hoping it will be a lot of fun.

My second Winter theme is now ready for download. You can download it by visiting my themes page which is linked “WP Themes” in the left sidebar or you may simple click here. Screenshot is available below. I hope you enjoy.

Yeah, I told you I liked snowmen. Shouldn’t come as that big of a surprise though. After all, Winter is my favorite season.

I’m stuck inside for the third day in a row, due to the rotten weather outside. Other than watching movies or TV and sleeping, the only other thing I could think of was to piddle around with a new Wordpress theme for you to download and use on your own blog. I’ve been working on it and one other (which is more of a “plain-jane theme”) for the last few hours. I love snowmen, which you’ve probably noticed if you’ve been a frequent visitor to any of my websites and blogs over the last few years.

Here’s what the theme looks like. To download, just visit the WP Themes link on the left sidebar or click here.

I have a few ideas for a couple of new Wordpress themes, so I think I will start to work on those sometime in the next day or so. I should have plenty of time to work on a few things at that point. I also have a couple of free headers in mind that I will try to work up before the weekend. I feel very inspired here. If only I had my new camera!

So far today I have managed to clean up the house. Jo and his mom had to leave to take his uncle to the airport, so they were in a big rush this morning. When I got up and saw that they had not had time to straighten anything up, I put on my “bee bonnet”, haha. I still need to do the floors but otherwise, I am almost done. Shoooweey. If it were a little cooler in this place, it probably would not be so bad but as luck would have it, Jo’s dad lit the fire this morning.

I worked myself up an appetite, so I think I will go have a sandwich or a bagel before finishing up.

Edit; As mentioned by a commenter on this post, the issue with the theme was a plugin - Word Count. I forgot I put that in there and in turn, forgot to remove it! Sorry about that. I have updated the zips for both “Pink for October” themes and the “Autumn Comes” theme. I believe those are the only 3 themes with this issue, but I will go through the remaining themes to be sure.

Something is going on with the website where we do our online banking. Every time I try logging in it tells me; first) I have double clicked something and second) it cannot connect using my “ID”. I have no idea what that means, so I guess I will making a phone call to TD today. Unfortunately they do not open until 10am, so I will be stuck here trying to figure it out until then. Unless of course it starts working before then. I guess it could be some kind of glitch but I have never seen anything like this happen before.

Also, I got an email from someone this morning who is trying to use one of my Pink for October themes. They seem to be having trouble viewing individual entries through permalinks like; blog.domainname.com/category/posttitle. To those who have downloaded and have been using any of my themes, have you had this problem? This is the first time anyone has contacted me about this kind of issue. I am awaiting their reply to my reply, so I figured while I wait I will see if anyone else has had this problem.

Now I am going to put on something warm. My husband is obviously trying to freeze me. It has to be in the upper thirties or lower forties out and he has the air conditioner blasting!

Guess what? I have another Autumn Wordpress theme for you all! It is definitely on the girly side and a wee bit on the country side (you will see that in the border). I happen to love and enjoy it, I even plan to use it on one of my own blogs. I hope you all enjoy it too!

If you are interested in downloading it, you can do so by clicking here or by visiting my themes page from the sidebar or here. Once again, if you notice any errors or bugs, do not hesitate in letting me know. The images in this theme were created by me, including the background which I created using Tartanmaker.com. Speaking of which, several people have asked about the tartan background images I have been using in free themes and even in my own. Just FYI, I will make a few of these available for download later on today and if you cannot wait, feel free to pay the site a visit and play around with generator yourself.

I would also like to note that I will be creating a theme demo page sometime today. That way you can test out my themes before downloading them.

I just realized that when I changed the link for the first Pink for October theme, I left out “.com”. Whoops. Fixed that. I am also going to re-list those themes in this entry.

#1) Pink for October 1

#2) Pink for October 2

Sorry about the error with the previous link. I had to change it due to server issues with the domain these files are hosted on. It is temporarily uploaded here, to Scribblescratch.com. Again, hope you enjoy them!

I decided to work up another free, Pink for October theme for you guys. I hope you like it. It’s pretty simple, in white and pink with a tad of black. You can view it, along with my other themes on my themes page: WP Themes. If you just want to download it straight away, click here to download it from it’s temporary link (issues on the domain I upload these to). Screencap is below. I hope you enjoy it!

Pink for October was created for Breast Cancer awareness month - October. I really hope you enjoy it. It’s nothing too complex and is rather simple but that was the point when it was created. You can download it by clicking here or visiting my themes page here.

It’s colors are pink, black and white. Screencap below.

My blogs will be going pink for October, will yours?

I’m not feeling too well right now. In fact, I have been trying to work on some new Wordpress themes but unfortunately, I’ve had to put them on the back burner for the rest of the night. I’m hoping to release at least 3-4 new ones between tomorrow and the weekend.

I’m really hoping it isn’t some kind of bug.

In other news - regarding the move to Newfoundland - there’s one bad thing about it. We’re not going to be able to take our cats. I’m really sad about that. I refuse to take them anywhere that would potentially put them down, so I’m looking into no-kill shelters and fostering programs. I figured in a place as big as Calgary, surely there’s something for us (them).