Purple Powder Room + buttons for your sidebar

Even though this looks quite "pyjama-ish",  I think "Purple Powder Room" is a better name for this.  Kind of subtle yet very very elegant.  It also comes with a few sidebar images/buttons (see below for details).  I think this would be really cute for a wedding blog!

Click for a demo site

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

This template also comes with some cute sidebar graphics that you can link to your Facebook, Twitter or Photos.  I even have one if you want have a link to an "About Me" or "Contact Me" page.

HOW TO USE THE IMAGES?

You just have to insert the images into your sidebar as a "Picture" widget (no need to 'shrink to fit' and put the URL link to wherever you want it to link to!).

Hope that makes sense!

Pretty Fly (for a butterfly) - 3 column pretty pink template

Hello! I have been incredibly busy of late and haven't had a lot of spare time for blogger designs. Sorries :( How cool is it that I now have over 2,000 Google followers now though?

Gosh, I cannot thank you enough. Really. Thank you!

I do have quite a few in the works however and that means if I get my act together then maybe I can get them finished. Anyhow, onto more pink gradient-type matters like this template below. So pretty and pink and has a butterfly (thanks to Jen at Pixels & Ice Cream). I know a lot of people want 3 column templates so I hope someone likes it.

click above for a live preview

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
  
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Cakes & Cakes - 2 Column Template - why not make your own funky header?

click for a live preview

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
  
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

If you want to make your own header, go right ahead (you should make a transparent PNG file). I made an example that you can see how it may look here:

Make my own header?

To successfully make your own header, follow the following guides:

• Make the header a transparent .png file (so you can see the spotty bg behind it)
  
  
• You can make transparent pngs with my favourite online image editor Pixlr (yes, it's FREE and quite comparable to Photoshop).
  
  
• You want to allow about 100px to 150px transparent "padding" above the text (within in the image I'm talking) so that it's going to be aligned within the spotty bit. If you don't put this padding in and try to insert the header image, it's not going to be in the right place and will look WEIRD! I hope that makes sense, leave me a comment if it doesn't and I'll try to explain more.
  
  
• As always, upload your header image by clicking on: LAYOUT > PAGE ELEMENTS and then clicking "Edit" in the header area. You want to upload your header image, but ensure you DON'T HAVE "shrink to fit" selected. Also make sure you HAVE "instead of title & description" selected.
  

Click here for visual instructions (much easier to understand). Enjoy.

Quite Contrary (of the Mary Mary fame)

Happy new year to you all! Apologies for not posting a template sooner but I had a big, crazy, month full of birthdays, Christmas, new year and then more birthdays! It was kind of crazy!
Here is a template (sorry, I make no apologies about it being deliciously pink) with a background by Ava7Patterns. Also, it's made from transparent pngs - so if you happen to be using IE6 (less than 4% of you, you won't be able to use this one due to transparent pngs looking crappy on IE6, sorry).

click for a live preview

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
  
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Lolly Popcorn - free XML template

Oh my gosh!!!!!!! It's not very often that you come across a completely awesome site that offers fantastical things for you to use for free but I have found one >> patterncooler.com (why oh why didn't I see this site before????) that offers background images.

BUT.... not just any old boring background images! You can scale and change the colour of the images very easily and then download them and then use them!!! So stop dilly-dallying and go look at the awesome patterns {here}.

Here is a template using one of those patterns:

click for a live preview

Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Pinky Pants - XML template

I liked the layout of Black & White Elegance that I've made a pinky one....

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(also, there are google ads in the preview site -- there are, of course, none in the downloadable template.... unlike some sites out there that put their ads in your templates! Shame on them!)

Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

I Love Candy - free XML blogger template

(click for a live preview)

The design works with "new" blogger - ie: it's an XML template. Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

The "inner" blog area colour is #F6A0BA - just for those of you who want their widgets to be seamless (or background colour for adsense). The header candy pics are by the talented Tayoindesign. Beautiful!

Pink Calm - free XML blogger design

SOME NEWS: Apologies for not being around lately. I am moving home at the end of next week and this means that I will be without internet for about a week or two (arrr!).

And....

2 buns + 1 oven = ?

Yes, ok, I have another admission to make! I am having twins! I'm halfway through (and it's extremely scary to think I will have two babies by January 2009) but it's also thrilling! I found out yesterday that they are twin boys (not identical). So this basically means that I'll be making blogger templates for a while to come as I juggle two babies.

Anyway, enough about me. Here's another template:

(click for a live preview)

• To download the xml template: click here(zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Gotham City - free blogger template XML - I'm back!

Hello everyone! I am back!

Good news - on my vacation, my boyfriend and I eloped! So now I am a Mrs yummylolly.com! It was a perfect day!

Anyway, thanks for being so patient in awaiting my return! I am glad to be back!

Here's a design called "Gotham City"......

(click for a live preview)

• To download the xml template: click here (zip)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

5th Birthday Party - free XML blogger template

A simple, pink design that's cute with a fixed background. Cute!

(click image for a live preview)

• To download the xml template: click here (zip)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here