Bloglovin', Buttons, and Icons

I've considered numerous times paying a blog designer to "fancify" my blog.  I really love beautiful blog designs; however, I'm cheap frugal and I've tried to learn how to update many items myself by researching online. You can see I updated my social media icons on the top right, now including an instagram icon!  Yay! The easiest DIY website I found for blog icons was here. 

I saw many of my fellow blog friends using bloglovin' so I checked it out and I really like how you can categorize and read blogs--the layout is a lot cleaner than many RSS feeds.  If you're not using it, I recommend you do, it's also a great way to come across great blogs (and have others come across yours!).

The other thing I've wanted to do is create a blog button...after a couple of hours of researching it and playing around with HTML code, I created one! 

I'd love to exchange buttons with you if you have one!  You can see I already uploaded some buttons from bloggers I follow who have them--you can see them on the right hand side of my blog.  If you'd like to know how to create a button, the easiest how to instructions I found were here. 

So, go follow me on bloglovin', take my button (you can find the code under the identical image on the right side of my blog, and send me yours!