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. Hi! I started reading your blog in 2009 and always keep coming back!

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  2. I've been reading your blog since 2009! Gosh, I can't believe it's been so long, but it's been really lovely seeing your blog grow and evolve :)

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  3. started in 2011. love all the deigns, though. :)

    jlaw1407 at hotmail dot com

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  4. I started reading in 2011. I love this blog and all of your shops :) I get a lot of inspiration from your blog!

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  5. Started in 2011! Oh happy day!

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  6. I just started reading your blog at the end of 2011, so very recently. I really love everything about it, but most especially your design skills and taste. In fact, I got very inspired to revamp my blog's template partly just because I came across yours and loved the style. It seems that every template you've had has been beautiful in their own ways.
    Glad to have found you. <3

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  7. four years going strong! haha, started in 2008 and have kept it bookmarked ever since. :) Love the new layout.

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  8. The new design looks fantastic, as always! I wish I had your skills ;-)

    I started reading in 2010.

    x

    rosaliliumblog at gmail dot com

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  9. hi there! i started in the end of 2010!

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  10. Hello!
    I started reading in 2010.

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  11. This is Jess and I started reading Oh, Hello Friend in late 2011 when I found it via Wit and Whistle. I love the new layout and colors. I'll be checking back frequently.

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  12. absolutely love the new design!!

    puravida(at)frontiernet(d0t)net

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  13. I started in 2011 and I love your blog!!

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  14. I started reading back in 2010! Not sure exactly how I found you, but I'm glad I did! :)

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  15. I think I started reading around this time last year. I am always eager to see a new post. I love your design aesthetic, and I am so glad you are brave enough to share about your faith as well...and the new design is fresh and fabulous!

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  16. oh wow. what a great giveaway! I started reading in 2009! What a great year, I've loved your layout EVERY year!

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  17. I started reading in 2010! I can’t believe I’ve been reading for 2 years! My sister introduced me to the blog and I’m so happy she did!

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  18. Starter to follow you last year :) I loved that design better, but changes are always good :)

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  19. I've been reading your blog since 2008! I can't believe it's been that long! I love your sweet and genuine nature and how you let Christ shine through you! You're very cute!

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  20. congrats on the new design! It's fun to see them all together like that!

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  21. I started reading in 2011, and I love it

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  22. Love the new design! I think I started reading way back in 2008!

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  23. Just found you via Real Simple! Love your blog!

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  24. I love the new design! I found your blog in late 2009, but I started reading it regularly in 2010. I always find such great inspiration here and I love all of your shops!

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  25. Have to admit that I'm completely new to oh, hello friend! (I followed a link from a Real Simple piece about a wedding invite you had done) so I guess that means I started reading in 2012. I may be new, but I'm really loving all of your work and hope that I can get picked for the giveaway.

    Thanks,
    Carol S.

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  26. I think it was 09 but the 08 logo looks familiar, too!

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  27. it's lovely! I remember when you unveiled the new look in 2010, so I have been a reader at least since then 8^)

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  28. I feel like I've been reading forever! Love the new design.

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  29. And I tweeted a link to the giveaway. @jerilee40

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  30. I started reading in 2010 I believe. Love the new design!

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  31. I twerted the giveaway too!

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  32. I think I started reading in 2010, but I'm not quite sure. Love the blog though!

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  33. HI dANNI!!
    I follow you since 2009! wow, how time flies!

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  34. started in 2010! <3

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  35. started in 2010! <3

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  36. Loving the new design! I started reading your blog in 2011, thank you for all the lovely reads and posts!

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  37. I started reading mid 2011

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  38. I got hooked on Oh Hello Friend in 2011.

    Love the new look!

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  39. I'm a new follower :) You have a greart eye. I found your blog a few months ago and it's bookmarked!

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  40. Today is my very first day reading, courtesy of Real Simple's profile on wedding invitations and I'm so glad to have found oh, hello friend! I'll be visiting this site daily now for ideas and inspirations for my own upcoming big day next summer!

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  41. Oh Hello! I started following your blog about a year ago. I am so truly inspired by your vintage style and love for flea markets. I absolutely LOVE the layout of your blog and am going to have to take a look at Blog Milk's page for some ideas. Your blog is what I look to as a wonderful example of what I would like to have in the near future! I will keep you posted as to my launch date! should be soon! Keep up the good work! LOVE IT!

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  42. 2011 Wish I had found it sooner!

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  43. I remember I started reading your blog in the fall of 2009. it was right after i discovered your shop!

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  44. I've actually JUST found your blog about two weeks ago (so 2011)! I love how organized it is! I'm using your January calendar desktop image, thank you! I hope there will be more throughout the months :p

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  45. I've been reading your blog since 2009 and loving every bit of it! Keep up the awesome inspiring posts and God Bless!

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  46. Just shared about it on Facebook!

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  47. I started reading this blog in 2011. Not long, but it's one of my favs!

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  48. Congrats! I love it!

    (and I started reading in '08)

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  49. i started reading you in 2011...found you after i got engaged and was looking for wedding inspiration! loved yours :)

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  50. I believe I stumbled across your blog in 2010. Love it!

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  51. I just started reading you last year. I came over from Cakies : )

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  52. Love the new design, looks great!!

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  53. I just started (2012) and I'm so glad I found you!

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  54. ee-yipe! wonderful new layout, wonderful giveaway. I think I started reading in 2009? loved it then, love it now. thanks for all the inspiration.

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  55. Great new look! Congrats!

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  56. I just found your blog today...from looking at speakers for the alt design summit. Beautiful blog. How thoughtful for sharing resources!

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  57. I do not remember! I hope I win.

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  58. I also tweeted about the giveaway. https://twitter.com/#!/tupacunicorn

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  59. I've been reading for two lovely years! Cheers

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  60. i started reading in 2008! the design looks great, i love it!

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  61. I started reading in 2011. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  62. I remember I began reading in 2009, when I first started college :) I heard about inspiration blogs from a friend, typed that into Google, and there you were!

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  63. Yes! I definitely remember the 2008 look! I just can't believe it was that long ago. Sheesh!

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  64. I remember the 2008 design and I am pretty sure that is when I started reading your blog - it has been one of my favourites ever since! Your design style is perfection and I am totally swooning over your new blog favour!
    Thank you for the many years of inspiration, friend! xoxoxo

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  65. I think I started reading in 2009 :) Thank you for your faithful blogging!

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  66. I just started reading a month ago :-) Dec 2011

    Your site is gorgeous!

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  67. Started reading in 2011, but I can't remember how I found your blog!

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  68. so cool to see the progression! :)

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  69. I love Oh, hello friend! I believe I can trace my reading back to 2009, but so much prettiness is overwhelming!

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  70. yes hello!!! thanks for this!

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  71. I started last year. :) I actually say "Hello, friend" to my friends, so I have to read it.

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  72. I started reading the year you got engaged, not for craft reasons, but because my friend showed me the post about your husband's handmade engagement ring-- and mentioned that you're fellow Christians. We'd browsed your shop when our school hosted vendor fairs, but I hadn't discovered your blog. I liked the links on the side for Compassion, conflict-free diamonds, etc., but now I love the whole thing. Blessings to you!

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  73. I started reading the year you and Nick got engaged, not for craft reasons, but because my friend showed me the post about your handmade engagement ring-- and mentioned that you're fellow Christians. We'd browsed your shop when my school hosted vendor fairs, but I hadn't discovered your blog. I liked the links on the side for Compassion, conflict-free jewels, etc., but now I think the whole thing is wonderful. Blessings to you!

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  74. I started reading in 2010, and it's been my go-to inspiration tab ever since :)

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  75. Started reading the blog (again) in twenty-eleven. When I came back to the blogosphere, yours was one of the first I had to refind!

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  76. I fell in love with this blog in 2011!

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  77. I fell in love with this blog in 2011!

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  78. I started reading in November 2011. :)

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  79. I just tweeted:
    https://twitter.com/#!/yogalover364/status/159500127097200640

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  80. Just shared this awesome giveaway on my fb:
    http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=317051648332911&id=100003176936466

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  81. i online-met-ya through a series of clicks from one blog to another and fell in love with your slice of the web - signed up for the rss and twitter right then and there - november 12, 2010. congrats on a great new design too!

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  82. started in 2010. the design is lovely :)

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  83. 2010 - I remember from the design! I love this new one and I am so glad to see the "oh" is back.

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  84. 2011!! Thanks for an awesome giveaway :)

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  85. I also tweeted about the giveaway (@rebeccajoybeach). Thanks!!

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  86. Started reading your blog in September of 2008! Started following you since my first vendor fair as a freshman and now I'm a senior! WOW :O

    Here's the link to my blog:
    http://daiiisylove.blogspot.com/2012/01/oh-hello-friend-giveaway.html

    Now that I am thinking about it, you and this blog have really inspired my kind of life style today. Thanks :)

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  87. Oh man, I read it wrong and blogged about it instead of Facebook. Oh well :)

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  88. Just started reading your blog in 2012!

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  89. I think I started in 2008....I remember the mint green when I began....then it changed shortly after. I love the new layout.

    Maymay @ Mays_vang@hotmail.com

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  90. I dont remember when... but i love your blog and have been folowing for a long time now :)

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  91. Oh I love it Danni! I am having Ana help me with some changes as well!
    What a fantastic giveaway! I started reading back in 2009 and have been hooked ever since!

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  92. 2012 - I just found you! I'm looking forward to your posts in the years to come :)

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  93. 2012 - i just found you! i'm excited to read your posts in the years to come :)

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  94. Lovely new design! I think I started reading the blog in late 2010. Keep up the great work :)

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  95. Danni - I adore the new look, but your blog has always been an inspiration to me...every design. I think I started reading in 2008, but not sure. I tweeted the giveaway & also on FB. Thanks. x

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  96. I think I just started reading in 2011. Love the new design.

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  97. I started reading your blog in 2011. Love everything about it!

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  98. How sweet! I think I started reading in 2010~ thanks for the chance to win!
    ann.swindell (at) gmail.com

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  99. I believe I started following in 2009! Thanks for the great giveaway package!!

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  100. Shared on Facebook:

    http://www.facebook.com/LisaAPetrillo/posts/152092864902961

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  101. I started reading in 2010!

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  102. Hi!! Well, I just found you, following a link from Pinterest... so 2012 is the year I started ...:) but I am definitly puttin you in my news burner!! Great site and resource, thanks fore being there:)

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  103. Hello, again,,, tweet tweet:)
    #!/itsmeiamb/status/159707358170320896

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  104. Danni, totally loving your new website and blog design. You are seriously such a great artist!

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  105. I just found your lovely blog...so I'm starting now in 2012!

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  106. I just found your blog and love it! so...2012

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  107. i started reading in 2010 after i saw you at Unique LA! :)

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  108. 2010 after i saw you at unique LA!:)

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  109. I love your blog,and your visits to the UCSD vendor fair! I have been joyously following since 2010 =]

    Grecia
    grecia.campos@hotmail.com

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  110. I love your blog,and your visits to the UCSD vendor fair! I have been joyously following since 2010 =]

    Grecia
    grecia.campos@hotmail.com

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  111. Wow. It's so cool to see how your blog has changed over the years.
    I started reading your blog in 2011!!!

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  112. I love your blog,and your visits to the UCSD vendor fair! I have been joyously following since 2010 =]

    Grecia
    grecia.campos@hotmail.com

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  113. woah I stearted when I was 10!, and now I'm 13, so 2010! haha what a great design, it's cute beverage (that's what I say when something is REALLY cool) hehe;)

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  114. I started reading in 2011.

    jessicarwarfield at gmail dot com

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  115. I started reading in 2011. I love the daily reminder that I am, in fact, quite loved.
    Laura

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  116. I started reading in 2011. I love the daily reminder that I am, in fact, quite loved.
    Laura

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  117. Great new design! How fresh for the new year! I remember first visiting your blog in early 2010 if I remember correctly. I keep a handy link on my pinterest account page.

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  118. Love the new design but the very first was so cool, too. I started 2011 with the twelve by 12 action.

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  119. happily found your blog in 2010. I absolutely love it! :)

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  120. I found you in 2011 and very glad I did!

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  121. I must be honest, I just found your blog (send it here from Alt Design Summit), and I love it!. I'll come back! :)

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  122. The new design is beautiful, Danni! I didn't really start reading your blog until Summer 2011, but now that I'm looking back at your past designs, I vaguely remember the mint green from 2008. :)

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  123. 2011. and the new design is fabulous!

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  124. I started reading in 2011... love your new design!

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  125. Found about it in 2009, started being regular in 2010...loved every look and looking forward to read lovely blogs in the new one!! All the best!

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  126. I'm a newer follower, but a friend introduced me to the blog in 2011. I love it already!

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  127. 2009 for sure! And loving your lastest design...but I love them all! You are so creative.

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  128. 2009 for sure! Love them all though Danni! You are incredible.

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  129. I started reading in 2012.

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  130. I totally can't remember when I started reading your blog, but I remember 2011, 2010, and 2009's layouts... maybe even 2008! Congrats on the beautiful new layout, it's perfect!

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  131. I think I started reading in 2009 or 2010. I like your blog much. :) Also shared in FB.

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  132. i started reading your blog in 2011 and i'm glad i stumbled on it! :)

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  133. I most likely started reading in 2010. I started to be inspired right away.

    Love!

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  134. I only started reading last year, which means I have all sorts of archives to enjoy! :)

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  135. It's great to see the different looks over the years - and I love the redesign!

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  136. i started reading your blog last year, 2011. your wedding is probably one of my favorites! love all those pretty designs from past years, too.

    have a great day,
    sabrina
    brinaroze (at) gmail (dot) com

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  137. I started reading your blog in early 2010!
    love your products and posts!

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  138. i started reading it sometime in late 2010. came across it at work and haven't stopped viewing it :)

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  139. i have been your reader since 2008! :)

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  140. i believe end of 2009. love it the same.

    emilie
    http://midwestfreedom.blogspot.com/

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  141. I love the new look! So fun! And the Oh makes me smile! :)

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  142. I tweeted about this giveaway! https://twitter.com/#!/Laura_Wadsworth

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  143. Danni, I am so glad my scrapbooking friend's Amazon list led me to your store and blog :) GREAT looks throughout the years!!!

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  144. Danni, I am so glad my scrapbooking friend's Amazon list led me to your store and blog :) GREAT looks throughout the years!!!

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  145. I'm pretty sure I started reading in late 2010 or early 2011.

    urchiken at gmail dot com

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  146. I want to win...! :)
    I like new design a lot... it holds a lot of things and doesn't appear cluttered.
    I have a question though - i see 3 columns here on the blog...

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  147. I started reading in 2010. I've got Oh, Hello Friend bookmarked and check it regularly!! :)

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  148. Um...today is the first day I have seen your blog but I have officially spent a lot of time looking around and LOVE IT! I found it by following a link from pinterest for a beautiful loft pic. Keep up the great work!

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  149. I started reading in 2010~

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  150. Love the new design! I would love to win this! So sweet! I began reading in 08 I guess! I remember all these designs! You always have an amazing looking design!

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  151. 2011 , belensmama at gmail dot ocm

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  152. How fun to see your progression of design :-) Started reading in '11!

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  153. Started reading in 2010. I heart each year!

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  154. Hi, I just started reading your blogs just today. I like it:]

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  155. i started reading you today!:) <3

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  156. I'm not sure, but I think it was 2010. Always a lovely blog! :)

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  157. Woah I startedreading in 2009! I love the new design. Autocorrect in not my friend

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  158. Woahh i startedreading in 2009, echen i was 11!!

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  159. Woahh i startedreading in 2009, echen i was 11!!

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  160. Hi I have only been reading your since 2011, but would love to win :)
    Michelle Salyer (j.msalyer@yahoo.com)

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  161. Hi only been reading since 2011, but love it! Also follow on FB.
    michelle (j.msalyer@yahoo.com)

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  162. I've been reading since 2010. Love your design.

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  163. Awesome design, very clean! Pretty sure I started reading back in 2010 :)

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  164. I started reading in 2011. Love the new design and your blog!

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  165. Really fresh, the end of 2011, great to meet u;) yaarah

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  166. One of my best friends told me about your blog last year. How it reminded her of me. Haha She knows me too well! I absolutely love the feel of your blog! From your craft posts to your personal posts. So uplifting and true.


    Just wanted to say Thank You for sharing your gift of all things cute and ability to connect with others through Christ! This world needs more inspirational women like you!

    Keep at it! :D
    - Janel (www.sweetesttabooo.tumblr.com)

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  167. Hi - I just started reading your blog this year, 2012! :-)

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  168. 2011 I happened upon your blog. I now follow it regularly:) Thank you for posting!

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  169. woah! I started reading in 2009, when I was 11! haha. I love new ddesign, It's really cute!

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  170. I just started reading in 2011. :)

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  171. I love your blog! Been reading it since 2010! Thanks for inspiring us and making making my days better and more sun-shiney!

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  172. Your blog has always looked great! I started reading in 2009. Thanks for the giveaway. I love all your shops!

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  173. discovered your blog in 2011 and i'm so glad that i did!

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  174. awesome! i love your site!! i started reading in 2011!

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  175. hey! I started reading in 2009, when I was 11! woah.

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  176. I've been reading your blog since 2011, it was the start of my blog-reading! :D

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  177. Tweeted :) @/sunblastkid

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  178. I found oh, hello friend last year and it's perfectly delightful. I think this design is my favourite :)

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