A Little Facelift

Or not so little. I just thought I'd let you all know that things look a little a lot different around here. I did an almost complete blog makeover. It took me about two weeks to figure out what I wanted to do, and I posted things to my personal Facebook and Instagram for opinions from all my friends and family, who love it too! I still need to revamp my Photography tab and I have some other plans in store up at the top, but I thought you would all like to peek around and get to know my new layout! I had great fun creating the header and all the matching photos and sub-headers! I hope you all like it! Thanks for reading and I love each of you for doing so!!

Diane

GFC No More

Many of you know that Google Reader and with that the possibility of Google Friend Connect is going bye bye as of July 1st, 2013. If/when this happens there is the possibility of not having our followers or favorite blogs to read that we have collected over the years when we sign into our dashboards. Have no fear! There is another site out their called Bloglovin'. Many many bloggers have already made the transition over to it, but in case you haven't heard of it yet, then you might wanna keep reading.

With the loss of GFC you wont be able to follow your favorite blogs or have followers anymore through this widget anymore. Bloglovin' acts the same as Google Reader in the sense that you can follow your favorite blogs, but it goes one step further in the way that you can categorize your favorite blogs also. I have categories like crafty, beauty, family....things of that nature. This way you can locate your favorite blogs in an instant, instead of scrolling through your feed.

This is not going to be a tutorial on how to work Bloglovin' because the site is really easy to navigate and many other blogger have done those tutorials also. (see below) I encourage you all to sign up, link up your blogs and start following your favorites over on Bloglovin' if you don't already do so!

Here's a couple of good tutorial's for you if you need some help! Comment below with any other good ones! Also leave me your bloglovin' account so I can follow you!

Replacing Google Reader with Bloglovin' by The Kimmie Chronicles
How to move your Google Reader RSS feed to Bloglovin' by IFB
A Bloglovin' Tutorial by Nutritionella

Cupcakes to Polka Dots Bloglovin Link Up

Today I'm joining up with Heather from Cupcakes to Polka Dots to co-host her Bloglovin' Link Up!

She hosts it the first and third TUESDAY of every month!

Have you heard the news that Google is getting rid of it's Reader feature?

Thankfully bloglovin is here to fill in that gap!

Here's the rules:

 Follow Cupcakes to Polka Dots and the co-hosts (that's me!!) on Bloglovin & then add your own link & then share it on Twitter! The more who join the more new exposure you get!

Hi!!!

Make sure you follow Cupcakes to Polka Dots on Bloglovin'
&

Say hello to the lovely sponsors!!

Lauren from LB in Wonderland

Diane from DD Kimball Road

Brittany Jean of Where My Soul Belongs

Rebecca from Caravan Sonnet

Make sure you tweet out:

 I joined the 2nd @Bloglovin Bloghop hosted by @heathgiff! Come join us! http://hgifford.blogspot.com/2013/04/bloglovin-link-up-2.html

Ps. If you're interested in co-hosting next month (it's free!) e-mail Heather at cupcakestopolkadots@gmail.com!

BlogLovin'

With the news that the GFC is going away in Google I decided to jump on the BlogLovin bandwagon. I'm checking it all out and creating my page. I would love it if you would follow me on there!

Follow my blog with Bloglovin

Also, WERE BACK from our vacation to Florida! It was such a blast and it has been dubbed "My Big Fat Redneck Vacation!" Stay tuned for that post along with tons of photos! I know I said that I would pre-blog for last week, but that really didn't work out. Don't worry I still have tons of stuff coming your way! Promise!