I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!  My holiday was (and still is) very busy and full of family.

Hopefully, you have noticed something different here at Lilacs & Longhorns -- my new blog design!

To celebrate the start of a new year and the fact that I have now been blogging regularly for more than 5 months, I'm updating and upgrading the look of my blog.

For those of you who have been hanging out here for awhile, you'll know that I have been messing around with my appearance for awhile.  It's kind of been like a decorating project for me (only I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing).  I move a chair here, put a new lamp there. 

But, like with some projects, I just couldn't get comfortable with how it turned out. (Could it be my lack of web savvy?)

So today, I'm getting a complete makeover and it was done by someone who knows what she is doing. As much as I love a good DIY project, sometimes I just need a little help to set the world all right.  Creating web graphics is just not my thing. 

The lovely and talented Emma from The Midnight Creative designed my blog template.  And, she is offering readers of my blog a discount for her fabulous services (for a limited time)! 


Not only is Emma very creative and talented, she is super fast and very helpful.

As a sidenote, I think it kinda cool that we live in entirely different countries and even different hemispheres.  (Isn't the Internet great that way?!)  She is in Australia (where it is summer) and, as you know, I live in the U.S. in Texas where we just had snow on Christmas day.

I just love the fact that two people a world away from each other can meet and collaborate on a project together!  While I often have a love/dislike relationship with technology, this is for sure my favorite thing about it.  I mean, many of you fantastic readers are living in different countries right now.  I love that!   

So, today, I'm starting off a new year of blogging and am very excited about the future and what it holds.   I'll be posting soon about my upcoming project plans for the new year. 

In the meantime, thank you so much for continuing to come here and reading my little ol' blog.  I am flattered that you read what I have to say and that you leave so many sweet and kind comments!  I am so grateful for every one of you.

Happy New Year!