Because my WordPress Custom Design upgrade expires soon, and the price of the annual subscription keeps on increasing. I do like all the free themes from WordPress.com though and it’s so easy to use, so I’m not planning on migrating to another platform any time soon.
New theme is Lovecraft (I know, the irony) Hemingway Rewritten and the header image is something I knocked up quickly using PicMonkey, because my previous word cloud image looked a bit rubbish in this theme. I’d like to change it to something a bit more book-ish at some point, but with my track record, that’s not going to happen any time soon.
It’s been a couple of years since I’ve actually updated my blog, so while I don’t think I’ve broken anything, shout if you see any missing links (or if the colour and/or font makes anything too illegible). I’m not too attached to anything at the moment, and I’ll probably continue tweaking it over the next weeks.
Me and My Books 
I’m always impressed when people make changes themselves to the websites. I want to do a face lift on mine. I’m just afraid.
I think Blogger is a bit more complicated than WordPress in the sense you have so much more flexibility and can actually break something! WP uses themes, which in theory is dummy-proof 😉
I like the stars in the header image. They fit with the current holiday feel for now, anyway, so I’m sure you’ll have plenty of time to come up with something more bookish for the rest of the year 😛 Happy Holidays!
Yes, it feels (unintentionally!) Christmassy, doesn’t it? I just wanted something blue to co-ordinate with the theme colours, and landed on this. I hope you have a good Christmas and happy new year!
Love it! Merry Christmas, Li.
Merry Christmas to you too, Angie!
I really like the new theme! I need to update my blog as well with a new header. Right now it’s just the standard one that comes with one of the themes.
Good to know I’m not the only one stuck for inspiration 🙂 Happy Christmas, Samantha!
I like the new header 🙂 Simple, but classy!
Merry belated Christmas Li!
Same to you, Nath! And happy new year 🙂
I like your new design. Very nice and easy on the eyes! I’m still working on changes on my blog and making changes each month on my header which is fun.
Thanks Jan! I love that you switch up your header each month – I always like seeing your new design.