I made a new theme dedication to my birthday - entitled “Celebration“. It’s quite obvious isn’t it? *lol* I’ll be turning 19 on January 30! I even made a birthday countdown in the menu bar. Credits to Elouia for the php countdown script. Oh, this particular theme especially the header is graphic intensive. Please wait for it to load properly. It’s the very first time I featured myself in a layout. It’s a picture taken on my 18th debut last year. And that little girl is me when I was about 5 years old.

This theme is tested in both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It’s friendly to both like all my other themes. There is a subtle difference however in the two browsers. You may notice that the pink ribbons on each of the navigation menu cannot be found in IE. Well, I tried but I can’t make it work properly so I just tweaked the CSS a little with a hack. Thanks so much to Stock Exchange for some of the pictures I used. Also to Vanilla Dreams Brushes for adding a little spark to my “blend”. *hehe*

I also added several 88 by 31 link buttons in the links section. You can now use those to link to Forever Gretch.

I made a new layout for the holiday season. *hehe* I made it last December 3, 2004. Thanks to Sanrio for the adorable snow Hello Kitty. It looks good in both IE and Mozilla since I modified the original css to suit both. The tagline “A Perfect Christmas” was inspired by hunbun’s favorite Christmas song by Jose Mari Chan.

My idea of a perfect Christmas
Is to spend it with you
In a party
Or dinner for two
Anywhere would do
Celebrating the yuletide season
Always lights up our lives
Simple pleasures are made special too
When their shared with you

Looking through some old photographs
Faces of friends we’ll always remember
Watching busy shoppers rushing about
In the cool breeze of December
Sparkling lights, all over town
Children’s carols in the air
By the Christmas tree
A shower of stardust on your hair

I cant think of a better Christmas
Than my wish coming true
And my wish is you’d let me spend my whole life with you.

Yay! I finally made a new theme. It’s all done in neutral hues. It’s simple and very lady-like. Thank you to Stock Exchange for the lovely graphic and Squidfingers for the background. Both edited using Adobe Photoshop CS by me. This is the first theme I made with Firefox as my primary browser so I’m sure its compatible for both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer users. Not sure with Opera and other browsers though.

I’ve just been going over all of the layouts I made. Hm… The mood of my themes are so different from each other. Some are cutesy and very girly, others are more mature and simple. I love it how they seem to reflect what I feel. *lol* I wonder when and what my next inspiration will be.

Yayness! It’s been more than a month since I made a new layout. Obviously, it’s inspired by stars. I do hope that the wishes I made on the stars will come true. *hehe* I wanted something light, girly, and fun since I’ve been down lately. Oh, hover over any of the links on the meny bar on the right. Do you see the pink and yellow stars? Making new layouts make me feel happy, a kind of therapy I guess.

Credits go to:

• CSS Custom Underlines
• Korea Barunson
• Adobe Photoshop CS