I'm just curious as the kind of input you guys can offer. Thanks for your opinions. Melanie http://melbelshebel.blogspot.com
Seems ok. Quite clean looking and easy to follow, The content is not exactly ground breaking stuff though. Your day to day routine followed by pay per post stuff is not going to get you a lot of traffic, posts could do with a few pictures to liven it up a bit and some interesting thoughtful posts to grab attention. Example: "Well today we went to try and find Mario Galaxy, but I guess it doesn't get released until Tuesday. Everywhere we went said it was going to be today but I guess not! We reserved a copy, however, so I can have it tomorrow before I go to work. We also looked at the puppies at the mall (which we always do when we go there!) We would never get one there because I don't support puppy mills and we once bought a puppy at one of those places and it ended up having a personality problem evident in puppy mill puppies. Also, it had a staph infection, too. We also stopped into Barnes & Nobles to look around. We didn't buy anything, though. I was thinking of maybe getting an Indian Cookbook with my gift card, but I'm not sure I would have the time to prepare anything."
I'll give my opinion about the look of your blog: I agree with canary wharf about pictures...it will definitely make your blog more aesthetically appealing. Another thing you might want to consider is changing your blog's theme. Your layout is nice and clean, but I've seen a lot of blogger blogs with the same theme. A custom theme, or maybe just finding a free one that is less frequently used, will help with your branding process.