Thanks for the congrats everyone, Tricia deserves so much thanks for the fantastic personalization of the colors and layout of Book Blogs - I am totally loving the new background color, wouldn't it look great on the walls of a library!!
The base photo I used is a pretty common graphic that I had on a clip art cd, but it gave me a chance to fool around in Paintshop and figure out how some options like shading, blurring and color depth work. It would be so great to have the knowledge to use photo-editing software to it's fullest potential.