When I first began blogging in June 2010, I really had no clue what I was doing.  But, through trial and error, visiting great blogs, asking questions, and frantically clicking away with my mouse to set up my blog, I was able to learn so much to get a blog started to document "a slice of Smith life."

So when my great bloggy friend, Lynda at My Heart's Desire, surprised me one day with my banner which is the photo above and the banner is located at the top of my home page, I was grateful for her help to make my blog more personal and eye-catching!    She used my photos of some cakes I have made for my children and made a beautiful banner that I proudly display on my blog here.  I love how she personalized it using my own photos and the colors fit my blog so well.  Thank you Lynda!

Lynda also designed and created the blog banners/blog button for our mutual friend, Anna-Marie, at Life's Adventures and Anna-Marie's blog hop banner/button at Field Trip Blog Hop.

Lynda makes all the blog buttons at NOBH (No Ordinary Blog Hop) that I co-host with her and 4 other bloggers.  Lynda is able to not only create buttons, banners, and signature tags (You can check out the signature tag she made for Anna-Marie HERE) that are beautiful and creative, but she also makes them so quickly.



Lynda is starting a new business where she wants to help bloggers add a little special touch to their blog by designing banners, blog buttons, and signature tags for you.  If you are like me, you don't always have the time to figure out these very technical and sometimes complicated features of blogging. Lynda has great rates and she will listen to what you want before she creates something that you will also want to proudly display on your blog. You will not be disappointed! You can find out more information and contact Lynda at her business site at My Heart's Desire Creations.

As I visit other blogs I always like seeing how some blogs put their blog buttons on their sidebar and make the buttons scroll like this: (You can also see this button scroll on the left sidebar of my home page)

So I did a Google Search to try to find out if there was a tutorial somewhere to teach me because the sidebar scroll would help my blog home page look a little less cluttered.

This is the link and site I found that had very clear and easy steps to make my blog buttons scroll up in my sidebar:  http://jenieshell.blogspot.com/2009/04/scrolling-blog-buttons.html

I am grateful for Jenieshell's Design Challenge blog (Check out her adorable button on my scroll) for teaching me something new about blogging!

Another blog accomplishment as I journey through blogosphere with blog baby steps... I created my own blog button today for A Slice of Smith Life! Yes! Here it is:
A fellow blogger told me about how she got some help from Oikology 101 to help her with the steps to create a blog button. With her helpful advice and Oikology 101 post (see link below) I was able to create a blog button! I also used Photobucket to create the picture for my button.
Click here: Make your Own Button for your Blog!

Check out Mommy's Idea for another post about how to create a blog button