Sarah is a circus-performing freelance designer who never fails to make me feel incredibly boring. She's adorable and creative and super smart, and this week she's giving away a copy of her e-book, Nerd Party: Clever Coding and Design Tips for Busy Bloggers, to one Freckled Italian reader.

A word from Sarah:

"Your design is the first thing people see when they visit your website. Before they read a word, before they look at your photos, before they know anything about you. Through this book I hope to help you define your style as a blogger, share your message, your business or your passion, and encourage your readers to stick around and participate.

It includes 10 brand new tutorials for Blogger and WordPress, tools for creating a user-friendly design, instructions for altering your template’s layout, tips for building professional looking photo galleries, ideas for using analytics to aid in your blog design, instructions on unlocking the power of Google’s Keyword Tool, and more!

This book is perfect for the blogger who has basic coding knowledge and is looking to add new design elements or change their layout of their site."

Enter below to win!

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Rob and I had a weekend full of good food, cocktails, apartment decorating, IKEA, lots of episodes of House of Cards and a few skits from Portlandia, farmers' market wanderings, and an amazing Saturday evening spent on our patio with Thai takeout.

Now that there's a definitive date set for me to move in, this visit to the Twin Cities felt even more special than the other two. I packed a suitcase full of things and left almost all of them hanging in the closet or nestled in a newly-claimed drawer. I felt less like a tourist and more like I belonged, with a list of favorite places already. (Hint: one of them is the patio.)

This place is pretty amazing in the summer.

 

 

Just popping in to say that our time with Google Reader is almost through! 

You can follow along with Bloglovin, and of course find me on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. 

Also, today is the last day you can grab an ad space for 25% off. Just use the code SUMMER when you check out.

And also, this:

Hope you have a great Saturday!