Dinner, this week . . .

Photo via Tiffany @ Eat at Home

Grilled Chicken & Pepperoncini Pasta. I love pepperocinis. I love pasta.  I can’t wait to try this. I might make mine a cream sauce. *blush* And I’ll probably use a rotisserie chicken instead of grilled chicken. The bacon-peppercorn rotisserie chicken from Publix is delicious. I’m not saying I’ve never eaten it on the way home, either.

Photo via Tiffany @ Eat at Home

Crock Pot Italian Beef Sandwiches. On a soft, buttery toasted bun…  These look good.

Photo via Aynsley @ Casa de Interiano

Breakfast Quesadillas. Breakfast. In a quesadilla. Oh yes, please. This is “breakfast for supper” at it’s finest.

Photo via Ashley @ Make It and Love It

Bacon & Basil Gnocchi. Cute little homemade ricotta gnocchi, in a bacon & basil cream sauce. Sounds delicious!

Photo via FabBites

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Brownie Cupcakes. Sigh. Groan. Faint. Facepalm. That’s all I can say.

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What are you having this week? :)

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Sharing Your Blogs, Part 2

One of my favorite things about blogging is reading your comments. I love hearing from you, reading your comments and suggestions, hearing your stories, and especially checking out the links you leave for me. :) I love it when I see how you’ve incorporated the fonts and tutorials from this blog in your own blog design, crafts, projects, and scrapbook pages. You guys have some seriously creative ideas that I would’ve never thought of! :) I’m inspired daily. I have tons and tons of your blogs bookmarked- here are just a few I selected at random tonight. :)

A Lovely Mess. Such a fun design. Love these colors.

All Things Digital. Check out the header & footer!! Too cute.

Cute Links For You. Super cute site. Love how you’ve totally personalized Blogger, Kenzie!

I Am Simply Sarah. Such happy colors! Love the post dividers.

Sew Create It. Very sweet. Love that header.

Simple As That. So serene… lovely! The custom font for the blog titles totally shines on this blog.

Marla’z Austin Chronicles. Love the font she used! It’s one of my favorites. Plus check out her rotating header. Very cool, Marla!

Beauty for Ashes. A beautiful blog from a beautiful soul. I am addicted to reading. See the “the” and the “family” in the header? They’re from different fonts. But she put them together. And they’re perfect.

♥♥♥

Does your blog need a makeover? You can find all my blog design tutorials all in once place, right here:

Kevin & Amanda’s Tutorials: Blog Design

There are also some really cool crafts and projects that you guys have uploaded to my Facebook page- I’m totally loving them! :) There’s a photo hanger welcome sign, family rules sign, shopping list, vinyl wall art, and more. Check them out here and here.

BTW, did you know I also have giveaways on my Facebook page? :) Become a fan to be notified of the next giveaway. I’ll give you a hint… There’s one next week and it’s *really* cool! It has to do with blog makeovers… :)

Thank so much for sharing your beautiful blogs with me. See you next week! :)

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Blogger Tutorial: Different Backgrounds for Different Pages

Now that you can easily add multiple pages to your Blogger or Blogspot blog, you might have wondered if you can have a different background for each page, thus giving your pages their own unique look. Good news! You can! And this tutorial will show you how to do it in just one easy step. This tutorial was shared with me by Carolyn M. @ Pat Loves Carolyn. Thanks so much for the cool tip, Carolyn!! :)

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See this tutorial in action on my Blogger Test Blog. Click on the Home and Recipes links up in the top navigation bar and see how they have different backgrounds! :)

Ready to try it yourself? First you’ll need pages on your blog. Here’s a super quick tutorial to get you all set up. It also includes tons of page ideas to get you started! :)

Next you’ll need a background. Here are my top 4 favorite free background sites:

Shabby Blogs
The Cutest Blog on the Block
Allie Brown’s Layouts
My Style Backgrounds

Or you can make your own personalized background using my tutorial right here! :)

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From your Blogger Dashboard, click on Design, then Edit HTML. Look in that box of code and scroll down until you see </head>

(Quick Tip: Click CTRL-F to search for </head> to easily find it in all that code)

Just above that, copy and paste this:

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == &quot;http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/p/PAGE.html&quot;'>
<style>
body {
background-image: url(http://DIRECT_LINK_TO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE.com/IMAGE.JPG);background-position: center; background-repeat:repeat; background-attachment: fixed;
}
</style>
</b:if>

Two things to change:

1. http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/p/PAGE.html

Change this to your page’s link – the link to your new blog page where you want the custom background to appear. This is the address up at the top of the screen in the address bar.

2. http://DIRECT_LINK_TO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE.com/IMAGE.JPG

Change this to the link to your background image. If you are using Photobucket to host your background, it’s the Direct Link.

Click SAVE TEMPLATE and that’s it!! You’re done!!

Note: As always, be careful- one tiny little wrong space, quotation mark, or typo in the code can cause the whole thing not to work, so if it’s not working for you, double and triple check your work for typos! :) Make sure your code looks exactly like mine, except with your page and background links! :)

If you got it working on your blog, leave me a link! I’d love to see it! :)

Thanks for looking! :)

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