new design + giveaway:

January 16, 2012



Welcome to the all new 2012 oh, hello friend design! I am so fortunate to know Ana from Blog Milk, who helped me do all the coding and make my design even possible. It is a lot of fun to design blog layouts, and I realized I've pretty much had a new design every year. Shall we take a look at all the previous oh, hello friend looks?

2008: has anyone been reading the blog for this long?
This seems like such a long time ago. My first blogging days, good times!
Loved this mint green back in the day, before I loved mustard yellow ;)

2009: Saw a complete redesign.. This is when I started "the daily"
which were daily columns and features for the blog.

2010: kept a lot of similar features, changed the logo fonts.

2011: Thought I'd get rid of the "oh" in oh, hello friend but decided I can't take away from the brand and the "oh" is back! ;)

and now we're in 2012 with a new 2-column design. I really hope you like it! I tried to simplify things (it's hard for me to simplify sometimes) but get rid of the blog clutter. There are some new links at the top of features I think is this blog's speciality: packaging/notes/vintage. One thing I did keep and have had since the original design is the "my heart" list. and you may notice a couple new "daily" buttons - I'm going to start doing weekly diy's and resources. Hope you like all the new changes!


Thought I'd also offer a little giveaway to go along with the new blog design launch. Win $50 from each of my 3 shops: the wanderlust, reverie market, and oh, hello friend for a total of $150 worth of credit! Simply leave a comment to enter with the year you started reading the blog (if you remember) For an additional entry: Tweet or post about the giveaway on facebook! (Up to 2 extra entries if you do both!) A winner will be chosen at random on Monday, January 23rd. Good luck :)

594 hello's:

  1. Hello! I met you at the UCLA Reggae Fest in 2011 and started reading since. Much luck in 2012!

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  2. I'm pretty sure I started reading in 2009. Loved it ever since!

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  3. I started reading in 2011 and I love it!

    Warmly,

    Elizabeth

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  4. Really loving the new design, Danni! :) I started reading your blog in 2010!

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  5. LOVE the new design danni!! so many pretty details! i started reading in 2010 & have been continuously inspired by it since! thanks for the giveaway!!

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  6. Really loving the new design! I started following your blog since 2010! :)

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  7. Oh hello friend and I became friends recently in November 2011! It's quickly become a new home page on my browser. I look forward to continued blog bonding here :D

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  8. Oh hello friend and I became friends recently in November 2011! It's quickly become a new home page on my browser. I look forward to continued blog bonding here :D

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  9. Love the new design! I've been with you since 2010. Such a lovely read :)

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  10. I can't remember when I started reading... probably 2011. :)

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  11. Love the new look, especially the sidebar!
    I started reading back in 2009, I remember the design very well :)

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  12. i started reading your blog in 2010 and i really enjoy it! your new design is really pretty!

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  13. im a new visitor just started last year. love your blog and all the inspiration you provide!

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  14. I think I started reading it in 2009, while I was planning my wedding (a link from another blog, perhaps). Love the new design!

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  15. I started reading in 2010! Your blog design (and other designs) are always so inspiring. Congrats on another year!!

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  16. fabulous giveaway and the new design is great!! i started enjoying the blog in '11, i believe. thanks :)

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  17. Fabulous new layout, Danni! Loving the separation of content and the color scheme :) Rock on!

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  18. I started reading your blog in 2010 and have been loving it ever since! I love the new design by the way :)

    -hannah

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  19. Beautiful re-design! I started following in 2011

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  20. I love the new design - great job!

    I started reading your blog in 2009. After I got engaged, I entered the world of blogs and you're one of my favorites!

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  21. Love your blog! I started following in 2010.

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  22. Started reading in 2010... I have also reposted on facebook and twitter!

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  23. Lovely, as always! I started reading your blog in 2011 actually, so I'm relatively quite the newbie. :)

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  24. Hi Danni!

    Your new blog design is beautiful as always, more organized and easier to read. Your love for yellow mustard is contagious. ;)

    I have been a fan of your blog since 2009. Oh, my ... that's a sweet and awesome giveaway!

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  25. It was 2010 I believe! I love the new design!!
    xx

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  26. I love this new design! So adorable! I have been a reader since 2010

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  27. Congrats! I've been reading since 2009 - which simultaneously seems like yesterday and forever ago.

    Here's to 2012!

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  28. Love every design so far, all of them are beautiful and what is most important - you. I think I started reading your blog in autumn 2010, when I also start bloging myself :) and all the things you share make my day, you are one miss sunshine hehe. So thank you.

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  29. Today! Via my friend Melina's FB post. Looking forward to exploring!

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  30. Probably 2010... and I gotta say the new look is my favorite so far!

    Dani @Danimakes

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  31. Hmm, 2010 maybe? Its been a pleasure! :)

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  32. Love the new design! I started reading in late 2010.
    Crossing my fingers to win this giveaway. :)

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  33. Love how you change it up every year! So fun :)
    I started reading in 2009! It's been a great journey!

    I'll tweet this too.

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  34. Love the new design, so sweet and simple! I think I started reading in early 2011. Thanks! :)

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  35. I started reading since 2010! :)
    michelleesque[at]gmail[dot]com
    http://www.michelleesque.com

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  36. oh goodness, i can't remember when i started reading. early 2010? i remember we got engaged around the same time and i was so excited to follow your wedding plans. love the new design as well <3

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  37. the new design is looking great! i started reading in 2009 and have been hooked since :)

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  38. I started reading your blog in 2010. (I think I found it through reading "A Creative Mint" blog.) I especially love it when you have photos with washi tape in them, or vintage office equipment/furniture/supplies. (Love industrial cabinets with lots of drawers to organize and store things!)

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  39. I'm absolutely in love with the new design :)
    I started reading your blog in 2011 and I love your photographs and how positive you are.
    Love from Spain ;)

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  40. love each of your blog designs! i {think} i started reading your blog early 2010.

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  41. i fell in love ohhellofriendblog in 2009 and i am still in love with ohhellofriend blog :)

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  42. Love the beautiful new redesign. I started reading in early 2011... I think I found my way here via another blog post about your gorgeous desktop backgrounds. I love, love, love having your desktop backgrounds on my mac - I look forward to the first day of the month just for that reason. :)

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  43. Congrats on the new design!
    I think I stumbled on this blog during Spring 2010 and it was so fresh and cute I've been following it ever since!
    Thanks for the awesome giveaway!

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  44. I started reading last year in 2011. Love the new design!

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  45. I've read since 2010 at least...but maybe before that? Love the new design!

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  46. I started reading in 2011. Love your stuff, danni :)

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  47. I've only been a subscriber since last year - I think I saw something on Design Sponge and was instantly hooked when I started reading your blog.

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  48. Love your blog. First started reading after my first Renegade experience approx. 3 years ago. Thank you for the inspiration!

    - Becky

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  49. i started following your blog every day since 2010! since i got married...since i was planning my own wedding... since i discovered blogs.... ever. since. the beginning! love your stuff.

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  50. I think I discovered you and your blog in 2009 when I discovered Etsy, but got really into the blogging community more last year! :)
    xo

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  51. Hi! I started reading your blog in 2010. It was fun to look back at your old blog designs.

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  52. Well, I definitely remember the 2009 design, so I guess that's the year! And I LOVE the new look. :)

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  53. I started reading in 2010! You are so inspiring, thanks a lot!

    :-D

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  54. i started reading it early last year. i read on another blog that you were one of her favorites so i had to check it out. been a big fan ever since!

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  55. Mmm, cannot remember, but I think 2009...
    x Iris

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  56. Ooh the new design is just so lovely! You always have such pretty blog layouts, though! :) I've been reading since 2009! And I plan to continue reading for many years!

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  57. Danni, like I said before on twitter, I LOVE the new design. It's so neat and clean and easy to use. I started reading your blog in 2010 and am inspired by it every single day. :)

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  58. I started reading your blog last year ... the new design looks great but it is fair to say that not one of your designs has looked anything less! Inspiring.

    Have posted on facebook which feeds directly to my twitter account.

    Happy 2012.

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  59. The design is beautiful! I started reading your lovely blog sometime in mid 2011.

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  60. I've been reading your blog for about 2u yrs now , I believe. Great new design!

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  61. What a fun blast from the past! I've been reading since 2010. Excited for the new diy features!

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  62. Embarrassed to say I just discovered you last year! So glad I did. :)

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  63. 2009! Thanks for the chance to win. xo.

    nicole.boddington@gmail.com

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  64. I started reading in 2010. I look forward to reading your blog every day!!

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  65. Pretty! <3
    I started reading your wonderful blog back in 2010 and it keeps getting better and better :)

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  66. i came across your blog in 2010... and have been inspired ever since... thanks for sharing all the inspiration around you!

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  67. I started reading your blog in 2009 and I always loved your blog design. This one included!

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  68. i started reading in 2010...so fun!

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  69. Wow! What a wonderful giveaway Danni! I have been following your inspiring blog since late 2008.

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  70. I started reading in 2011.

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  71. Pretty as always! I think I started reading in 2010.
    Thanks for the giveaway :)

    Kylie

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  72. I must have started reading in 2010 because I have one of your 2011 pocket calendars still in my wallet. :)
    Thanks for the chance to win!!

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  73. Hi Danni!

    Your new blog design is beautiful as always, more organized and easier to read. Your love for yellow mustard is contagious. ;)

    I have been a fan of your blog since 2009. Oh, my ... that's a sweet and awesome giveaway!

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  74. such a fan of your blog and the simple, lovely phrase "oh, hello friend"

    I began following after my first Renegade experience approx. 3 years ago.

    Thank you! - Becky

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  75. sign me up! I started reading your blog in 2011!! So glad I did :)

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  76. I am not sure, but I'd estimate I've been reading since sometime around 2010. Great blog, great giveaway.

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  77. Love the design (and that you're not afraid to change it up)! I've been reading since December 2010.

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  78. Love the new layout Danni! You are so creative....continue to inspire us all :) Love ya, friend!

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  79. Love the new design! I started reading in 2010.

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  80. I love the new design, it looks so great! And I like to see the evolution of the site. Seeing that you have one design/year helps me to remember to resist the urge to tweak mine constantly, lol!

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  81. Loving the new design. I think I started reading your blog in 2009. Thanks for the awesome giveaway! Here's to another great year of blogging. :)

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  82. I've been lurking here since 2010. Wow! 2010? Yeah...

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  83. I think in 2010! Wow! I never realized! Love your blog and your work.

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  84. I started reading your lovely blog in 2010 :)

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  85. Just found your blog this month through a Pinterest pin. So excited to see what's to come in the new year!

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  86. I've posted your giveaway to Facebook :)

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  87. I started reading in 2011, I think. It may have been late 2010.

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  88. i started reading in 2011. loved every post!

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  89. Been reading since 2009! You are such a prolific designer; love the new look!

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  90. GORGEOUS new design ~ would love, love, love to shop footloose and guilt-free in your shops! Thanks for all of your design sensibilities - we're all drinking it up! xoxo

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  91. Ooooh lovely giveaway! I started reading just a few months ago in 2011.

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  92. Oh, addendum: found this blog in 2011.

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  93. I started reading the blog in April of 2011, right after I got engaged and saw your invitations in my real simple wedding book. Coincidently, my husband and I got married on Sept 25 2011, and I based my invitation design loosely on your spectacular ones!

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  94. Not real sure but think it was sometime in 2010 that I found you.

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  95. I love the new look! I started reading your blog in April of 2010, though this is my first comment.

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  96. I love the new look! I started reading your blog in April of 2010, though this is my first comment.

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  97. I love the new design! I started reading your blog in April 2011. I've loved every post!

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  98. I started reading in 2008. Not long after I was diagnosed with leukaemia. I visited your blog everyday for inspiration. I love it! All the nurses used to come in and watch me buy things of your old ohhellofriend etsy shop. They used to love your little robot necklace. Love the new site. Thanks for inspiring me over the last four years.

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  99. am absolutely in love with this new design. just when i think it's perfect, you make it even more perfect!

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  100. DUDE! It looks so great in here! I think it's my favorite design yet. Good on ya Danni! Hopefully get to say congrats in person at Alt. xo

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  101. First found you in 2010 ... I am enjoying your new look! Wonderful insights!

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  102. I started reading in 2010! Love the new design!

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  103. I started reading your blog in 2011, when I discovered the world of blogging :) Shared this giveaway on FB and Twitter!

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  104. I like your new look and your blog. I've been a fan starting this month but I don't remember how I got here!

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  105. I started reading your blog in 2011.
    Shared this giveaway on my FB and Twitter :)

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  106. Sorry... must've entered twice because I didn't see my comment. Woopsie :/

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  107. I love the new design! I began reading your blog around June 2011 I believe. Your blog posts were always so captivating, creative and adorable!

    (ladyyc-@hotmail.com)
    Ideologist

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  108. I totally heart the new blog layout! i wish i was half as clever as you for figuring out all that code and stuff!

    I started reading your blog just last year - 2011- and I haven't missed a post since (thanks to email subscriber!) You share my love of yellow, and in fact most things, so your giveaway is right up my street too! Super.

    Just about to go and tweet about your lovely giveaway too. I'm @LforLemonade by the way :) x

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  109. Danni the new design looks beautiful! (as always!:) I've been a happy OHF reader since 2009!

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  110. I started following this blog after buying your cute jewellery off Etsy last year (2011)! Love it.

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  111. I started following in 2010! Great idea for a giveaway and love the redesign!

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  112. LOVE your new design danni!! i started reading your blog in 2009!!

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  113. i tweeted!!

    https://twitter.com/#!/sandyalamode/status/159035884786823168

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  114. I began reading your blog in 2010. I absolutely love how inspiring and uplifting your blog is. Thank you so much for continuing to create great posts and offering this giveaway. <3

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  115. I liked how you simplified the design. I've just started reading your blog the beginning of last year (2011).

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  116. I started reading your blog last year. I heard about it from a friend and I feel in love with your style! It is super inspiring how you make a living doing what you love, and I can see how you try to glorify God in your work and just have so much fun! I'm currently trying to really figure out how God is calling me to use my gifts and your blog/stores give me a lot of inspiration! Love it!

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  117. congrats on the new design!
    i started reading in 2011. :)

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  118. I loved the looks over the last few years, but This one really emphasises those gorgeous colours. the new design does seem cleaner some how, and I'm loving so many things in your easy store and Wanderlust. To use one of the words I learned from you..... Swoon.

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  119. love your new look :) i started reading last summer, so 2011 :) i love some of the items that i've found through artists you've worked with on your site!

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  120. i started reading your blog about 4-5 months ago. and it's been great!

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  121. Thanks! I started following in 2009. Hoping for many more years too! I love your blog.

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  122. I started following last year! Beautiful blog!

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  123. I just started reading this past year in 2011 =)

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  124. I just started reading this blog in December 2011. Instantly fell in love! (:

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  125. I started reading in 2010 I believe. Your blog is one of my favs! Thank you for all the inspration.

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  126. I Danni, I stumbled on your Blog last year,while planning my wedding :) and I have been hooked since.

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  127. I stumbled upon this blog in late 2009 and have been reading it ever since!

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  128. Love the new design...yellow always feels fresh and happy! Posted this on my facebook too.

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  129. I started reading in 2011! Love your blog!

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  130. I started reading in spring break of 2009! woahhh I was cool in 5th-6th grade hehe :)

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  131. Love the new design. I think I started reading in 2010! Thanks for offering the giveaway!

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  132. I don't think my comment before worked - sorry it did! :/ I just started reading a couple of weeks ago and I fell completely in love with with your packaging pics!

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  133. The new design is beautiful Danni! It's a great way to start off 2012 with a new look! I've been working on a new look for Ever So Lovely too - launching in a couple of months! :)

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  134. I started reading the blog in 2010! Around May. I saw your engagement photos on Green Wedding Shoes, which took me to your blog :) What I lovely giveaway btw, Danni!:)

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  135. I've been reading since 2011, but have been visiting your booth at Patchwork indie arts and crafts festival since that started. I especially loved all the little details you shared from your wedding.

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  136. I started reading about 2010. I love this giveaway! Thankyou

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  137. tweet the post and giveaway
    @chachamisu

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  138. I don't remember when I started reading oh, hello friend, but the 2011, 2010 and 2009 designs all look familiar while the 2008 does not, so it must have been sometime in 20009.

    gienahghurab [at] yahoo [dot] com

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  139. I don't remember when I started reading oh, hello friend, but the 2011, 2010 and 2009 designs all look familiar while the 2008 does not, so it must have been sometime in 2009.

    gienahghurab [at] yahoo [dot] com

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  140. I love the new look! I started following in late 2011!

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  141. Love the new design, you can see a great progression!

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  142. Started reading... today! 2012 :) Your blog is adorable!

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  143. I started reading the blog in 2011 - learned about it through Cakies!

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  144. I just starting reading your blog last week! Love it!

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  145. love the new design and really love your blog and all your shops!!!! i started reading in 2007 and have loved everything since!

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  146. Hello, thanks for the chance to win :) I got to enjoy your blog in 2011, not too very long ago.

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  147. I love all of your designs! They are so pretty and fresh.

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  148. I started reading in 2010! Loved it ever since!

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  149. Oh please I hope I win!!

    Love the new design, Dani! Even though you've changed designs each year, you've still managed to keep a very cohesive look. Bravo!! Looks gorgeous.

    Can't wait to see you at Alt!

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  150. I really like the new design!

    I started reading your blog in dec,09-one of the blogs that inspired me to start my own blog in jan 15, 2010!

    My blog turned two yesterday and in In celebration of my blog turning two, I decided to do a blog design makeover giveaway!!! For bloggers who want a free blog design! Please Pass this on!

    Thanks for all the inspiration Danni!

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  151. I think I've been reading since 2009, with a bit of a hiatus... I missed you, then came back!
    www.benzie.etsy.com

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  152. hm... i think 2009? and i'm glad you decided to keep the "oh" :)

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  153. started reading in 2009! :) twitter is meeowow!

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  154. I started reading last year! The new design looks great :)

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  155. I have been reading your blog for awhile.. checking in here and there.... when you got married and I couldn't make it I got to read your blog and feel like I was there.. I would say after that I started reading everyday. I was reading an article about how you should start your day doing something you love.. so I go online and read your blog!!! I love you dani! and miss you tons! You inspire me

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  156. I found you blog at the end of 2009, and have been reading it regularly ever since! And I LOVE this new design!

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  157. Fingers crossed that I can win something from my newest blog discovery. You have such a lovely blog. I love checking it for a little pick-me-up!

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  158. I've enjoyed your blog since 2009 :)

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  159. I found Oh, Hello Friend in May 2010...just right after I got married!

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  160. Loving the new look - so fresh!
    I started late 2009 and visit lots.
    Lisa in NZ

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  161. I started reading in early 2010 and check back every few weeks to see what new enjoyable items and posts you have to share.

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  162. 2012 is actually my first year but won't be my last ;-) so glad I found you!!

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  163. I love your new look! It's fresh and simple for the new year.
    I have been reading your blog since last year, 2011.

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  164. I've been reading your blog since 2009! Love it! It was great seeing the progression of your design too.

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  165. Lovely new design :) Brand new to the blog... and thoroughly enjoy getting emails about new posts!

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  166. I started reading your blog in 2011. But I back read all of your posts. It's so great seeing a progression!

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  167. I love the design Danni... though I can't help missed the old one, but change is always good. I started reading your blog since 2010 and I fell inlove with it until now. Looking forward for more great inspiring posts... =)

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  168. I started reading your blog in January 2011-a year ago!

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  169. I think I started reading the end of 2010...

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  170. I definitely remember starting to read this in about 2010. It's the design I most recognize from this post! It was hard to forget because I completely remember thinking I had no idea other people like packaging as much as I did. I actually dream about the room I'll use to wrap things in once I get my own house, lol!

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  171. I unfortunately am a new fan...I had only stumbled upon your blog last year. But I fell in love instantly! It's so creatively inspiring!

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  172. I started reading in 2011! :) Thanks for working so hard to make your readers' lives more beautiful! :)

    jenni_i@hotmail.com

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  173. I've been reading since 2011 -- since early December, I think.

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  174. I started reading your blog in 2009...I love it!

    missxmeliss@gmail.com

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  175. love the new design! 2010!
    -Dani

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  176. Happy 2012! You are all organised, i am slow to get started! Congratulations on your beaytiful blog design x

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  177. I think i probably started reading in 2010 and I am so glad I did! your positive influence is so appreciated and I am so happy I had the chance to meet you in person this year :) Love thew new design!

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  178. I just started following a few weeks ago... 2011!

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  179. your blog has transitioned in it's design so beautifully and stylishly. the design for 2011 looks great :)

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  180. Found your blog in 2010 (or was it 2009 haha) when I joined lovely package swap :)

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