Blogging: Decorating your blog

I love playing with backgrounds on my blog. It's the non-graphic-designer-wishing-she-was, that gives me such a thrill to change the way my blog looks. I really don't like having the generic backgrounds that Blogger offer. They are fine for a start, but the more I read blogs (and I read a lot) the more I want it to look more professional or appealing.

To help you along, I found a number of blogger backgrounds which are free.  Its not difficult to do, all you have to do is go to the backend of your blog, add a gadget - the html one - and normally you just have to copy and paste some "web language" into there and it transforms your blog. Why not give it a try. If it doesn't work and you don't like it, then you can remove it afterwards.

• Abstract in Back
• Allie Brown's Layouts
• Blissfully Just Me
• Blog Designs by Dani
• Blogaroozer
• Blogs and Blings
• Bluebaby Pie Designs
• Butterflygirlms Blog Designs
• Chic Blogs
• Cristi's Creations
• Daisy Gray Design
• Debs Craft
• Delightful Dots
• Dotty Dot Dot Backgrounds
• Hot Bliggity Blog
• Ivy's Free Blog Backgrounds
• Izzie Grace Blog Backgrounds
• Kindra's Blogging Designs
• Layla Kay Designs
• Mimi Nicole Blog Backgrounds
• Miss Mych
• My Style Backgrounds
• One Cute Blog
• PaisleyCat Scraps
• Plumrose Lane
• Quick and Easy Way to a Scrapbooked Background
• Sam's Scraps
• Scrap My Blog
• Scrap-e-Blog
• Scrappin' Blogs
• Shabby Blogs
• Shel's Scraps
• Simply Chic Blog Backgrounds
• The Background Fairy
• The Cutest Blog on the Block
• The Hobby Barrel Blog

Most of them offer plenty of blog backgrounds for free and then there are also some that you pay for, or parts you pay for like blinkies or buttons. The free ones are lovely and are more than sufficient to make your blog look elegant and charming.

Have fun!!
WARNING: Changing blog backgrounds can be a very addictive activity, proceed with care.