I always look for customizable desktops every month. And, yes, I change the desktop on my computer once a month. Despite not liking change, I do like to change my desktop. I’m a walking contradiction, what can I say? On the first of the month, I usually do a quick Google search for “customizable (month) (year) scrapbook desktop” and click around. I have a few sites that I fancy but, I’ll be honest: they are all too girly for my liking. (Especially as of late.) And so I was thrilled to come across a new site offering a customizable desktop in a non-frilly, non-flowered way for July. Hip-Hip-Hooray! Designs by Laura saved my day month!

The customizable desktop she is offering this month is patriotic in theme. And here’s what is smiling back at me right now.

It comes without the picture of my smiling children, obviously. That said, it does come with a blank spot for you to enter your own picture. You will need photo editing software of some sort. Being the (pseudo-)photographer that I am, I have Photoshop CS4. Then you can sort through lots of girly-based digital scrapbooking sites and become annoyed at the lack of available stuff for moms of boys and/or moms who prefer green to pink. But, you know, who is complaining? (Apparently I am.) (That said, there are great digital scrapbooking sets with boy themes, though very few that are with fire trucks that aren’t… ugly. More on that next week.)

Happy July! And thanks to Designs by Laura for offering me something without frills!

One giveaway has gone live today. Head on over to Student Bloggers to see what it is all about! (And a side note: We’re getting closer to OUR live date!)

I did not post the giveaways that went live this weekend as we were busy. And so, I have  to link to this morning! Go enter them all! They are Techie Diva, Notebooks.com, Geek.com, Techmamas, Merlot Mom, Absolute Vista, digitalmediaphile, and PlanetX64. A brief note: every site has their own rules. It is your job to read the rules and decide if you would like to participate.

I didn’t post links to the new live giveaways yesterday because I was slightly overwhelmed with life. And so, yesterday: Geeks to Go, Gear Diary and Geeks! all went live. Today’s site to go live is One Day, One Job (which is a great site!). Sites which went live the first two days are announcing their winners. This is exciting!