Special Made Blog Design

Free Giveaway!

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There is an amazing free give away going on over at Your Card Bakery! One lucky person will win a

FREE CHRISTMAS CARD DESIGN.

They are amazing, so go hurry and enter into the drawing. Best of luck! Click HERE to enter into the drawing!

And I'm off...

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We are closed until the 18th. Make sure to place your order still while I am gone. When I come back I will check my emails and get the deposit out to each of you. Remember, first come, first serve...so don't hesitate to email me while I am gone. I will contact you back when I come back. Thanks guys and have a great 2 weeks!

October already?

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I cannot believe it. I feel like Christmas was just a month ago...crazy! Is it just me or has this year flown by so quick? Well, bring out those coats because it is already starting to get cold. Here is your OCTOBER 2009 Calendar for your desktop:

Click on the desktop icon on the top of my site to download it. Enjoy!

The NEW look...

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As you can see, I have a new look to my site. I hope you all love it...I know I do. I have been working on this design for ages. It has taken forever because of so many things that have been going on lately...but it is up now. I still am trying to get all the links working, so bare with me for awhile! :)

P.S. When I changed things over, I moved it all to a new blog which mean I lost all my followers. So please add yourself again! Sorry! :(

Pre-made Package

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Here is another pre-made package! It is a fun, cheerful design meant to bring a smile to the faces who see it. I absolutely LOVE this design. I love the simple, elegant style and the fun colors. It is a value of $80 being sold for only $30. What a great deal...and the best part about it is: IT WILL BE INSTALLED TO YOUR BLOG WITHIN 24 HOURS. You will not have to wait on the waiting list. Click on the picture below to see a live view of the design and ordering information.

Freebies

2009-09-24T23:05:00.003-07:00

A lot of you have contacted me saying you love my work, but just don't have the money for a unique makeover. So I am now going to start offering a little something, something for you guys. I will now be doing monthly free backgrounds. Seeing that I am super busy with designs, I can't offer a ton of them, but just like my monthly desktop backgrounds, I will offer monthly blog backgrounds. So here is the one for September. Just grab the code underneath the picture and paste it into a HTML gadget on your blog. Enjoy!

If you haven't gotten your September Desktop background go and get it! Don't forget to come back October 1st for your next desktop background, and blog background!

(Blog Background made with the kit "Adore" from Designs by Krista)

New to Special Made Designs

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So I am now going to start offering FREE desktop backgrounds each month for everyone to download. Make sure to come back at the beginning of each month to get your new one! Here is the SEPTEMBER 2009 one:

Click HERE to download the desktop background for NORMAL monitors.

Click HERE to download the desktop background for WIDESCREEN monitors.

Facebook

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Follow me on facebook for updates! Search by email: contact@specialmadedesigns.com

My Blog

2009-09-24T23:03:00.005-07:00

So I just re-designed my family blog. Here it is:

(Click to see a LIVE feed)

Finished!

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So I just installed my latest design. This was my give-away of a free header with the purchase of a background. I made her a way awesome FLASH header. Go ahead and click on the image to see a LIVE view.

(Finished! Click to see a LIVE feed of the finished product)
ORDERED: Background and Whimsical Flash Header

Hurry!

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So as you can see, my design schedule is starting to book very quick. Hurry and get your order in so that we can get you on it before it gets backed up more!

The joys of renting...

2009-09-24T23:02:00.003-07:00

I can hardly wait until my husband and I can buy a home. I am so sick of renting. Not only are you pretty much throwing away your money, but you deal with so much. The people above us are so noisy! It sounds like they are playing musical chairs above us right now. When their grand kids are over, we might as well just leave our house. Oh it is so annoying...

Newest Design

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Here is my most recent design. This was such a fun and vibrant person to work with! We sure had a lot of fun making it just right! Such a pleasure working with her!

(Finished! Click to see a LIVE feed of the finished product)
ORDERED: Background, Whimsical Header, Custom Illustration, Text Menu Bar, Favicon, Deletion of Navigational Bar, Sidebar Titles, Dividers, 3 Column Conversion, Signature, Button w/ Code, and an additional Button

And the winner is...

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And the winner is:

NOBODY

Nobody entered into the drawing....oh well. If you were thinking about entering, you should have because you would have won. Stay tuned for another give-away soon....

Recent Completed Designs

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(Finished! This is a personal blog, so no live feed available)
ORDERED: Background, Trendy Header, Favicon, Deletion of Navigational Bar, Sidebar Titles, Dividers, and Width Adjustment

(Finished! Click to see a LIVE feed of the finished product)
ORDERED: Background, Classy Header, Text Menu Bar, Custom Illustration, Signature, Favicon, Deletion of Navigational Bar, Sidebar Titles, Dividers, and 3 Column Conversion, Button w/ Code, and an additional Button

It's Give-Away time!

2009-09-24T23:00:00.001-07:00

As you all can see, I launched my new design today. Pretty? I decided since I made a huge change in my design, I may as well kick it off with a GIVE-AWAY!

The give-away this time is:

50% OFF
the purchase of a
Header & Background

What a deal!!!

Here are the rules to enter into the give-away:

1. Add yourself to my Followers section,
2. Grab my button and put it in your sidebar of your blog,
3. Write a post on your blog about this give-away,

and then....
4. Email me at contact@specialmadedesigns.com letting me know you have completed these steps, leave me with your blog address, and I will enter you into the drawing!

Don't miss out on this great offer! You have until Monday, August 24th at 5:00 PM (MST) to enter into the drawing! Good luck everybody!

What a week!

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So I just back from a family reunion and boy was it fun. I am so glad to be home though because my little boy was having a tough time towards the end. Now we are back home and enjoying relaxing. I have so many designs to be finishing this week! I am so excited to do them.

I have a lot of orders that are waiting to be placed and I will be booked until the beginning of October, so if you are thinking about ordering, hurry and do it so you can get a good spot! Make sure to add yourself to my Followers section!

Some new things

2009-09-24T22:59:00.001-07:00

I finally just added a follow me section. So please add yourself. Also, I am trying to get an email list together of those who want updates on my services. This will include:

When there are give-aways going on
When I add new services
When prices are about to change
New things coming to Special Made Blog Design

If you would like to get these updates please email me at SpecialMadeDesigns@gmail.com and I will add you to my list.

WOW!

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Those of you who want to order you should do it very quickly, as my design schedule is starting to book up very quickly. As of this point my next opening is for the week of August 31st, and that will be going so quickly. I am still waiting for a few customers deposits so as soon as I get those, spots will start filling up.

So PLEASE if you are interested, book your week quick so that you wont need to wait so long to have such a beautiful blog design!

And the winners are:

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Congrats to the following winners:

Courtney Clements
Mikelle Schaerre

If you won this give-away I need to put you on my design schedule. Please email me and let me know if you just want the header and background, or if you are interested in purchasing anything else to make your blog even better. Look at my pricing section to see if there is anything you are interested in. I look forward to receiving your email and working with you!

Free Give-Away

2009-09-24T22:58:00.001-07:00

I am opening up another give-away. This time it will not be first come, first serve. This will be a drawing. The giveaway is:

Free Header with the purchase of a Background.

Backgrounds are priced at $15.00.

You will get a one of a kind background that NOBODY else will have. You will get a custom header to match well with your blog. This is a value of $40 for only $15.00 and includes installation! What a great deal.

There will be 2-5 winners depending on the turn out.

Now how do you enter into this drawing? Follow these few easy steps!

1. Grab one of my buttons and put it on your blog.
2. Write a post on your blog about this free giveaway so that you can tell your friends.
3. Email me at SpecialMadeDesigns@gmail.com and tell me that you have done this. Leave with me your blog address so that I can see that you have done this. If you are private, then just go ahead and send me an invite to your blog temporarily.

The drawing will take place on Monday, July 27th at 5:00 pm (Mountain Standard Time) so you have until then to enter into the drawing.

Here are some examples of some blogs I am currently working on:

(Finished! Click to see a LIVE feed of the finished product)

(Finished! Click to see a LIVE feed of the finished product)

(Still in progress. No live feed available.)

Free Give-Away

2009-09-24T22:57:00.003-07:00

We just completed our first FREE GIVEAWAY! Congratulations to the following winners:

Amy Oppie
Lauren Waldram
The Knit We Go Through
Salon Sarah Bella
Maija-Liisa Downing

These five people have won complete full blog makeovers, anything of their choice. Stay tuned to see their new complete blogs. I will be working on those blog makeovers starting Monday morning. Please see the design schedule in the left column. Congrats again.

To those who did not win the free giveaway, stay tuned to see some more free giveaways soon!

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