for fellow bloggers!

Many people have asked me how I'm able to blog and get so much done with a newborn baby in the house.. well... I have a really good newborn! She is pretty much happy as long as she is dry and fed... and in times of a fussy fit she can typically be calmed with music and a good rock in the rocking chair!! She's great!!
And because she has been so good I've been able to find time to get things done!! Besides cleaning house, doing laundry, dishes and such I've also found time to figure a few things out on my blog page.
For those of you who might be like me and not know much with this sort of thing I've decided to attempt to tell you how to do some things.. It took me FOREVER to figure some things out... Hopefully it won't be clear as mud!

The first thing I wanted to do was make my photos larger. I googled "making photos bigger with blogger" it took me here. Her page is very helpful!! For your pictures to be larger you have to change your margins.. I'd check out her tutorial to see how to do it since I doubt I'll be as clear. I was already using the minima template so it worked for me... but if you are not you may have to play around with the "wrappers" to figure out what margin size works for your blog.

Once you go through her step-by-step instructions for making your blog margins larger. Then it's time for enlarging the photos. Unfortunately she isn't as in-depth about this...
First- you will have to upload your photos to an outside host.. I'm using flickr so I'll tell you how to do it using flickr... but there are tons of other places you can use!
If you use flickr-
Once you upload the photo you want to use if you click on the photo you can do all sorts of things with it. One thing is "resize" - here you can make it whatever size you want (but remember to keep it within the margin widths you chose earlier)
To put the photo in you blog you have to copy and past the photo's html code into your blog. To do this go here and she gives a very helpful tutorial on how to do this!!

I hope if you are wanting to make your photos larger this helps.... leave me a comment if you have any questions and I'll try my best to answer them but really I just googled what I wanted to do and there seems to be an endless amount of information!

Have a great day!!