How To: Install A * Custom * Background

Hi Girls! Today I am going to give you a tutorial to install a custom background that is full length, or simply a background you would like to tile. You can see an example of a tiled background on my blog right now. Hope this helps you, and if you have any questions, feel free to comment below! Remember: Back up your template before you start by right clicking 'select all' and copy ALL of your template. You can paste this into a word document, or email it to yourself. This helps prevents ANY mix ups!


Right underneath 
/* Use this with templates/template-twocol.html */
a:link {

Replace any code with this code. . .

body { background:url(enter YOUR url of your new background!); margin:0; color:$textcolor; font:x-small Georgia Serif; font-size/* */:/**/small; font-size: /**/small; text-align: center; }

  

UP UNTIL this code: 

color:$linkcolor;

  text-decoration:none;

  }

a:visited {

  color:$visitedlinkcolor;

  text-decoration:none;

  }

a:hover {

Your coding should now look like this: 

/* Use this with templates/template-twocol.html */

body {

  background:url(Your URL);

  margin:0;

  color:$textcolor;

  font:x-small Georgia Serif;

  font-size/* */:/**/small;

  font-size: /**/small;

  text-align: center;

  }

a:link {

  color:$linkcolor;

  text-decoration:none;

  }

a:visited {

  color:$visitedlinkcolor;

  text-decoration:none;

  }

a:hover {

After you do this, you will not be able to use the Template Designer background up loader. This way is to install custom full length backgrounds you have made on Photoshop, Gimp, or any other program. You then can also upload a picture to tile on the background of your blog. 

break!

It's officially break! I didn't have school this whole week, but some people still had school up until yesterday. :) Do you girls have any plans for break? I don't, but I have to finish some homework and *maybe* take some photos for some upcoming posts. ;)

The leaves and weather have really been changing here! It's been really chilly! The other day, I saw a deer in out backyard, and they usually don't leave until the end of winter spring? never. Haha! :) They really never leave until it gets warm again. There is about 7 deer that always appear  during the middle of fall. They come every single day of winter! It's always so cute to see the little ones. :) We also sometimes get little white squirrels, but I have only seen one. We have even seen a coyote and a turkey. And, no, we don't live in the woods, but we live close to a woods that is only about 5-6 yards long. :)

So, you girls have to tell me what you are going to be for Halloween!! I will post pictures of my costume on Halloween, because I will be dressed up with everything then. It stinks it's on a Monday this year! I hope to go trick or treating with my friend this year! I cannot wait! I will be jumping in my seat by the end of school on that Monday! ;)


I hope your girls have a great MEA break!

Boo!

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Do you 'boo' in your neighborhood? Our neighborhood does and it's tons of fun. 

We just got booed last night by our neighbors and I 

  came up with an idea to BOO! on blogs!

This is how it works. . .

1. Choose a blog to Boo!

2. Leave a comment on the newest post of the blog with this message:

You've been BOO{ed}! 

Go to http://chunkeymonkey-chunkeymonkey.blogspot.com/2011/10/boo_16.html for further directions on how to boo,what booing is, and to grab the button! 

Don't forget to put the button on your sidebar to make sure you

don't get booed again!

Happy Halloween. . .

-{your name}

3. You can only boo one person until someone else boo{s }you {you boo 1 person, someone boo{s} you, then you are done booing until someone boos you again.}

4. DON'T FORGET TO PUT THE BUTTON ON YOUR SIDEBAR, AND ALSO DON'T FORGET TO POST WHEN YOU GET BOO{ED}!

I am going to BOO someone right now to start it off. You may also boo someone, too.  Don't forget to leave a commet if you have been boo{ed}!

Halloween {BOO!}

BOO! Did I scare you? ;) Halloween is only 16 days away! :) What are YOU going to be? I am going to be a  gothic angel. It's so pretty! I can't wait to go trick or treating with my friends. Too bad it's on a MONDAY this year! I am so disappointed that I won't be able to go to bed late, plus {maybe} have to do homework. Who knows, maybe our teacher will let us off easy! Last year, when I went trick or treating with my best friend, we went to both of our neighborhoods, and we got SO MUCH CANDY! I got an expander this year {expands your mouth, even though mine is pretty big, they put on in away}, which means no chewy candy or hard candy or it will stick to it. I am so mad! :( My favorite candy, Jolly Ranchers, are hard candy so I won't be able to eat them! WAH!!! 

I also have some pretty pictures to share with you! My mom got the new iPhone 4S, and it FOCUSES the photos! Of course, I had to take some photos pronto. 

My favorite one is the rat picture and the brown pumpkin when it's alone picture. The rat is not real, just so you know and so you won't freak out. :)

{P.S! We are only 1O followers away from hitting a giveaway! :) I have a question for you all. . .

would you rather have it be a prize that I make/buy, OR a prize donated by someone/sponser?}

Blah.

I was looking at my favorite blog, and I found a giveaway! I am so excited about this one! I have the luck! ;) It's for a cute hair clip from Amelia Bedelia Design! Check it out! Click on the button!
                           







That's all I feeling like doing right now. Blah. I am so wiped out from dance and homework. I am so glad we have MEA break next week! I have already had about 10 tests. Very fun! I gotten a great grade on them, no lower than an A-, EXCEPT for one test, which everyone except one kid got a okay score on {or a bad score.} We did retakes, and to be honest with you, the study guide she gave us the second time around was MUCH MUCH MUCH better. I got a A on it! :) We also took a social studies test on the 12. . .? great lakes and we had to list what continent there were on and where they were, and to list 1 fact each for 8 of the lakes. I got a awesome grade on it! :D

Today in science, we did a celery experiment! We put the celery in water for two days, then we observed what happened. I said that the celery w/ leaves would suck up more water, because the leaves need more water. The end result was the celery w/ the leaves sucked up about 135mm of water, out of 25 mm! WOW! The celery with out leaves sucked up way less. My teacher used red water, so you could see the red streaks running up the celery! How cool is that?

I entered Karen's Giveaway on Caelen's blog, and I WON! I received the prizes on Tuesday, and they are so cute! I LOVE THE POSTCARDS! I will be using them for my pen pal! I will use the pearl stick on earrings for Rebecca, who doesn't have her plastic ears pierced. :P