The hubbub seems to have died down, and now it’s just me and you again. And also a few new folks. But not 20,000. Which is good, because that was making me nervous.
This new-look Great Smitten site launched almost two months ago, and it occurred to me recently that I never gave you a proper tour, which is so rude of me because, in the South, that’s what you do when people come round.
So please, grab yourself a cup of coffee and follow me…
Header
My gorgeous header is my front door.
It was a joint effort between Jessi Connolly, who designed my overall blog, and April Knight, an illustrator from Charleston, South Carolina.
Simon was praying for me one night a few months ago when he asked God for my words to be like arrows. Around the same time, I got an email from Jessi with some ideas for my design – and one of them was an arrow. I went with it.
Now…if you’ll mosey on over to the sidebar with me…
Meet Faith
Self-explanatory
Social Media Buttons
Aren’t these pretty? Email me, follow me on twitter and pinterest, become a facebook fan of Great Smitten, and subscribe via email.
I’ll compare this bit to my front porch. It’s where we hang out. Get to know each other a bit. Chit-chat. You know.
Sponsors and Affiliates
These are lovely people who have partnered with Great Smitten to get the word out about their blogs and businesses. If you’d like more info about becoming a sponsor, you can click on the little “sponsors and affiliates” header and it’ll take you somewhere you can find that stuff out. Or, you can just email me. (Remember how to do that? We covered it above.)
This is my front yard, with all my political signs stuck in the grass.
“Vote for Herb Humphries!”
“Vote No on November 5!”
Except mostly vote yes. For these gals.
Reads
These are blogs and sites I personally read and recommend. Simple, really. It’s my rolodex. Did I mention I’m giving you a tour of my house in the 80s?
Search Great Smitten
Again, self-explanatory. I hope. If not, email me. Bless your heart.
Do Your Dream/How to Rope an Englishman/What My 20s Taught Me
These are recurring features, and you can find them all at the click of a button! If you haven’t read them, you totally should. I wrote them, and I like them.
So I guess this is kind of like that room in your house where you keep all your beauty pageant crowns and track & field trophies on display. Not that I have any of those.
“I Read Great Smitten” Button
If you’ve got a blog and you want to tell the world that you read Great Smitten, grab the code in that little box there and paste it in a widget on your blog. Boom. Easy.
Follow on Facebook
This is where I like to display your picture. You know, like a picture wall. Because I’m into those.
Archives
This is where you can find all of my posts, ever, in chronological order. Some of the old ones are embarrassing, but I’ve left them up for now to keep it real. It’s kind of like how you keep your old yearbooks on your bookshelf.
I Miss This
This is a pointless list of things I miss from North Carolina. I thought about deleting it with my new design, but I didn’t want to, so I didn’t.
It’s my house; I do what I want.
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Thank you very, very much for coming on my blog tour. I’ve got a few things in the works for the coming weeks, including the continuation of How to Rope an Englishman, a couple of new features I’ve been working on, and more inspiration to live a creative, authentic, passionate life.
It’s a pleasure to have you here, and I hope you’ll make yourself at home.
