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Christy Nelson is a craft blogger based in Lincoln, NE. She started blogging on Blogger, but contacted me when she was ready to move to a self-hosted Wordpress blog. Christy picked out and purchased the theme VintMint from WP Now which I then modified to better suit her brand image. 99% of the graphic elements of this theme needed to be modified. No Photoshop file was included in the theme package.

This theme did have a nice featured gallery, and was set to post thumbnails and excerpts of recent posts to the home page (seen in the following two images).

The built-in featured posts gallery.

Example recent post excerpt from home page.

Christy hosts sponsored Craft Challenges monthly. Many of the participants are also craft bloggers. She also enjoys featuring neat things that other crafters are making, or cool craft products. I created several badges for those that had been featured on ChristyNelson.net or had won the Craft Challenge.

The page of all ChristyNelson.net web badges

The Craft Challenge packets are distributed through Christy’s Etsy shop. I included the Fancybox JQuery lightbox script so visitors could visit her shop without leaving the page.

Christy's Etsy shop seen through FancyBox lightbox.