BIGGEST fail ever!!!

Alright, it's my first personal post of 2013 and let me start it with the biggest fail story to ever happen to a blog/website owner: my layout images didn't show up!!!!!! Oh my gosh, how embarrassing! I've been posting my blog everywhere and telling people about it, but no one ever told me that my layout images never showed! I had my suspicions when I decided to check on my blog from a mobile phone and noticed that the layout image had been replaced with a Photobucket error picture saying the image has been removed or something. But because I thought it was a bug or glitch, I ignored it. It was fine when I opened my blog on my laptop. It turned out, though... that I had set my Photobucket account (I upload my layout images here, not directly on Blogger because it messes up the quality) ON PRIVATE!!! Genius me strikes again! I had only realized it LAST NIGHT that both of the internet browsers I use to edit my blog contain a cache memory of my Photobucket account, which gives them the ability to access my pictures, thus allowing me to think that everyone would have the same view. So even if I set my public Photobucket account on private, I was still able to see the pictures because there's cache! Silly silly silly.

AnyHOOT, so here's a new layout I made in a few hours. It's way much simpler than the previous ones because I'm trying out something different with the design. I've been obsessed with flowers, florals, and collages lately, if you haven't already noticed.
If you're curious, here are the thumbnails of my previous blog layouts, in no particular order. I should have known you couldn't see anything! Gosh!!!

This is the one I had up before the current version

ANOTHER ANNOUNCEMENT is that I'm going to start to be more "free speech" on this blog. I know everything I've posted has been very "spiritual and Christian", but I'm slowly trying to break out of my shell in public and write about issues that are more controversial per se. I've been contemplating this for a while, but haven't been ready due to people's comments and their perception of me as a worship leader at church. But I guess I have to take the first step, don't I? I want to keep growing as a person and also as a thinker. I'm going to take a slightly steeper road to finding my identity and I hope the public (my church fellow members and friends) are ready to see me in a different light. Well, it's not as dramatic as it sounds, I promise, but my blog posts are definitely going to be more honest and raw from this time onwards. I won't post too much about my personal life, but I will write more about current issues and lighter controversies (some things are just too complex to discuss in written words). Oh, and I will be posting more beauty/skincare reviews because I want to help those who are going through the same problems as I was with my skin.

Thank you for being the awesome, wonderful readers that you all are. Here is a super old pic of me when I was 10 pounds heavier and my hair was super short. xx

Love always,