New Years Blogger Templates Posted

Hi all,

I told you once I start creating blogger templates over at Leelou Blogs that I would post about when the new designs are posted. Here is that post ;)

New Years Fireworks Blogger Template
Ring in the New Year Blogger Template'

**Remember to follow/subscribe to be the first ones to see my new blog designs that are posted over at Leelou Blogs!

Fun Day & Super Mario Bros (Wii)

Today, my friend called me and asked me to pick her & her kids (10 & 9 year old) up to visit with us. She is recently divorced and living with her mom. So today her mom needs her car and she doesn't want to be stuck at home BORED. I agreed and went to pick all of them up. ps..Excuse my messy living room!

Owen got Super Mario Bros for the Wii from Santa and the kids are all playing it now. I would highly recommend this Wii game. It reminds me so much of the old Super Mario Bros on the old Nintendo but of course the Wii one is much more advanced in graphics..lol.

Countdown to Christmas Giveaway Winners

Adori Graphics hosted a Countdown to Christmas Giveaway. To view the winners and to see her post for these winners, please go to Adori Graphics and follow/subscribe.

Click here for the winners!

Been MIA......

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. We sure had a great one. Kids loved everything they got so did us adults!

Just wanted to update on where I am as of now.....
I will still be MIA for another 2 to 3 days while we all get back settled into our routine after this holiday.

If you haven't subscribed or followed Leelou Blogs, please do because I am hoping to have some new designs up by the end of this coming week.

Have a great rest of the holiday weekend ;)

Birthday Week

Sorry, I've been kinda of MIA with post since my merge with Leelou Blogs but it has been a busy week for me. The month of December is super crazy for us every year. We have 6 birthdays in the month of December in my family. First starts with my middle sister whose birthday on the 4th, my dad's on the 14th, mine on the 16th, my daughter is on the 17th (she was due on Christmas Eve), my brother-in-law (married to my middle sister) on the 20th and their daughter on the 21st. Yes, yesterday was my 34th birthday and it was a good day of relaxing, laying around watching movies. I don't know what my hubby got me because he forgot it at work. He has been stressed lately there so I forgive him.

Tonight is my daughter, Avery, who is 6 today, birtday party with only family & close friends. We decided that we will have a big party with all her friends in the spring. When you have birthdays in Decemenber, it can be costly. I think we are going to celebrate her birthday in the spring with friends and have our family birthday party on her birthday. I know some people do this. My mom and I were talking to this man who had the most adorable looking 1 year old boy the other day in Walmart and his kids birthdays are in December as well and he & his wife have a swimming party for their child in the summer and then celebrate with family in December.

Does anyone else have birthdays in December or close to Christmas? If so, how do you celebrate being so close to Christmas?

Excited News of a Merge

To all my followers,

Leelou Blogs offered me to publish all my free blogger templates on her blog! Well, I took her up on her offer and transferred my templates, backgrounds & headers over. I will no longer be publishing blogger templates on this blog.

This blog will become my personal blog. (I don't have a personal blog which I should since I am a blog designer..hehehe) I hope you continue to follow this blog (my personal blog) I would love for you all to really know me ;)

My tutorials will also be posted on her blog but I will also keep them here.

As for the Backgrounds & Headers, I will also be posting those over at Leelou Blogs too and no longer on this blog.
***On a personal note, I will still help Louise at Adori Graphics on Freebie Fridays, these will be posted here and maybe on Leelou Blogs.

List of Blog Designers will also stay on this blog too.

No fear, I will post updates on this blog when I post new free blogger templates over at Leelou Blogs and giveaways from other designers as well.

If you want to keep viewing & using my templates, please go over to Leelou Blogs and follow!!!!
You will notice mine still have my picture & my name *Heather (Butterflygirlms)*

Change is on the Horizon

Hello all,
If you noticed my free blogger templates are gone. I am in a transition of a change which is awesome so please bare with me.
I will post an announcement Monday and I hope you all love the new change ;)

I am still gonna provide Free Blogger Templates =)

XOXO

Add picture to Customizable Header with free program GIMP

**Special thanks to Alison from Template Mama for giving me this tutorial for my followers.

There is a image manlipulation program called GIMP that you can use for all your graphic design needs. It's a great program and is free to download at www.gimp.org. Try it. You'll like it :)

Here are instructions on how to put your own picture into one of my customizable headers in GIMP :)

Click the "read more" button below for instructions:

Anyone using the Believe Template???

I hate to write this post but I was contacted by the designer of the graphics used in the Believe template. She states I went against her TOU for her Berry Merry Christmas kit which I used in the Believe template. She states even though I'm not making money from it, it still considered as commercial use when creating another product. (I must be confused on commercial use)) She asked for me to please remove the template immediately which I have and anyone using this template will also need to stopping using it. I am sorry for this inconvenience this may cause you.

With every digi-scrap kit I use, I send out an email asking permission to use their kits but on this particular kit, I read the TOU and did not send a permission email. I must have misunderstood exactly what her TOU meant obviously! I'm sorry ;(

I have a ton of other Christmas blogger templates that I do have permission to use and those templates are published here ;)

NEW GOAL: Learn to create my very own digital scrap kits to use for my blogger templates.

Santa & my kids

I just wanted to share a picture of my kids with Santa. We visited Zoo Lights in the city and they had Santa & Mrs. Claus for all the kids to visit with. Owen & Avery told Santa what they wanted and I'm happy to say that they just might get what they asked for. Evan isn't really understanding who or what Santa is all about yet but maybe next year when he is 3 years old. From left, Owen (my oldest), Evan (the baby), and Avery (my only girl).

Owen asked for a drum set and a Super Mario Bros WII game,
Avery asked for a kitchen and a Hello Kitty DS game (do they sell these)
Evan just wants toys especially cars, trucks and construction vehicles.

My Christmas Designs at Adori Graphics

I would like to take a moment to let you all know about a great blog makeover site called Adori Graphics which is run by the sweetest gal named Louise.

Once again, I created a blog background & header for her weekly Freebie Friday post this past Friday. I used her Christmas Splendor digi-scrap kit.

Click here to see what I came up with & get the code.

Show her some love and follow, she is BRILLIANTLY TALENTED!

Also let me know what you think!! Here is the screenshot:

Busy Busy Bee

If you've sent an email to me in the past few days and I haven't answered it yet "I'm SUPER SORRY", but don't worry, I'll get to them hopefully by the end of the weekend. It has been a very, very busy week for me with Christmas shopping and family outings. At least my Christmas shopping is done, now just gotta wrap them all! I hope you all understand and will be patient with me ;)

PS. I'll start back posting new Christmas & Winter templates starting next week!

Last night, we went to see Zoo Lights with our entire family. It was so much fun, the kids got to see Santa. It was very cold, down in the mid 20s, but we were all bundled up nicely! I would have taken more pictures but my battery ran dead..shame on me :(