Hey, where did the Christmas page go? + my New Year look is up!

I am packing up Christmas. It's time to look forward to the new year.

This was my Christmas look of 2012



And for all of December my blog sported a quick link to all things Christmas.



I have taken that down now in preparations for the new fresh look that will be going up on January 2nd. If you are still trying to finish that walnut ornament, or sew that burlap pleated tree skirt for next year and you need to see how I did that, you can still find everything Christmas right here in my right hand side bar.



In the meantime, I put up a new New Year banner with a glitter background.

If you are not seeing it, you can click CTRL F5 on a pc or Command R, or if your cache is very persistent, you may have to clear your history/cache as well. This will be slightly different for each browser. You can find out more here, if you have never tried it before.

And if you have never tried it before, I highly recommend that you know how to do it because if you are shopping online, like I am, guess what? many sites will detect if you are a new user - which they figure out by looking at your IP address, and they give you discounts accordingly. For instance, last time I cleared all of my history - not only my cache and then went to Westelm, I was offered a 10% discount as a *new* customer if I signed up for their email newsletter. For travel they even have different pricing - lower pricing - if you are a *new* customer.

But back to my New Year look, which you should be seeing now that you have cleared your history or refreshed the site or both.



Oh and I saw that a couple of things were not linked up correctly on my Christmas page. That should all be fixed.

I have a couple of things planned between now and New Years. Until then...