Makeover complete.

From this....

To this ..... (I don't know why my ships disappeared!)

to what you see now.....

all thanks to Alex's wonderful skills, especially given the lack of a brief I gave her! I am one of those people who when I go to the hairdresser they say, 'so what would you like done' and my response is invariably, erm, I don't really know.

So here's the brief I gave her:

I would like it to be something fun, definitely something booky. Over the years I have had purple background, red and white flowers, and the current one which had the photo of Rotterdam before it disappeared. Favourite colour is purple. Don't want a dark background.
Way back when I first started blogging I thought I would like something that was a play on the blog title - you know something about books being an adventure, but I don't want anything too cutesy

When Alex first came back with her reasoning for why she came up with a lady aviator I was so touched I nearly choked up! I wish I could find that email!

And so, here we have it - The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader. I am now looking at getting my own URL, but after that things should settle down just a little. There may be a few small adjustments but for the most part it is done!

Thanks Alex, these are for you!