Blog Changes and New Buttons.

Slowly but surely I've been pottering around my blog over the past week making slight changes here and there. (Giving the poor darling a makeover and a little attention seemed like the least I could do for it.) While I admit I am much happier with the way it looks now, I terribly miss my Northanger Abbey banner which faithfully greeted me each time I opened my blog. But it was definitely time for a change and after spending a rather frustrating day at my editing program I was able to finally come up with a banner I felt happy with.
Despite the pictures being of Pip and Estella from the 2011 adaptation of Great Expectations, I felt that rather than simply have my blog title, I wanted to use the whole quote from Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey:

"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."

I suppose my use of that quote makes me seem quite...I don't know what phrase to use but I imagine if my brother were to find that this quote was my favourite he would proclaim that I was 'such a girl'. But I can assure you I don't flit or flounce around weighing up every man I see as a potential husband/hero. Neither do I sit at home raising a fist to the sky crying 'When will that something happen to throw a hero in my way!' I just like that quote for the simple reason that I love Austen's sense of humour and I just find it to be oddly reassuring. And so what better reason to have the whole quote across the banner.

Also in changing everything around I decided to add some new blog buttons, the older ones didn't seem to fit with the updated look.

Bright Star (2009): John Keats & Fanny Brawne

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Great Expectations (2011): Pip & Estella

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I hope you all like the changes as much as I do and I pray that you all have a wonderful upcoming week, especially as we move into celebrating Easter.

Much love from you friend,

Mel

ps. I am finally getting around to writing some reviews so you will see some soon :)

Bits and bobs and blog buttons

You may have noticed over the past week or so I have made some minor changes to my blog, just because I am finally starting to get the hang of how things in the blog world work. My first post was on the 12th of March so I haven't been on here long, but I think I'm doing okay...I hope :)
Okay so just to list the changes:

Comment box- It now opens up in on a separate window in a smaller view.

Reactions- I finally worked out how to put those lovely little reaction boxes at the end of the post. I think that I have titled them "your thoughts". I particularly wanted these because its a great anonymous way to give feedback. Also because things get so busy, sometimes you may read a post but not have enough time to comment so these allow you to leave feedback with one click :)

Pages- I have also added a new page (pages are the tabs under the banner) for the "to be a heroine" series. Considering that I plan to have many lessons in this series I thought that it might proved easier if the links could all be found on the one page :)

Blog Buttons - I finally have a blog button! YAY. It took me the better part of today to set it up and get it working. As you can probably tell I am not that much of a computer person :)

For those of you who would like to link to my blog I have created 3 versions below. I know that sometimes particular buttons may not go with the theme/colour scheme or your own blog so by creating some different ones I hope that you will find one that you like :)

Also I have started adding blog buttons from some of my favourite blogs on the column to the right, If you have one but I haven't added it let me know, I would love to add it :)

Blog Button #1- Northanger Abbey; Catherine & Henry

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Blog Button #2- Robin Hood BBC; Lady Marian

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 Blog Button # 3- Lorna Doone; Lorna & John





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