I decided to use my 3 day weekend productively and aside from going to the gym, I thought it was about time that here at Unloved Button we had a bit of a make over.

I have decided to advertise with the lovely Frances over on her blog for the month of September and as part of this I wanted to knock up a new 200 x 200 image for her to use so I thought I would go mad and design a new header too! I am going to have a look tomorrow and give the layout and colours a bit of a spruce too and sit and write out some of the posts which are swimming round in my head or I have a collection of photos on my iphone for!

Stay tuned for lots of lovely posts coming up soon and dont forget you can follow me on instagram (unlovedbutton) and twitter (@laura8289) :)

Now I dont know about all of you, but Google reader is what I use to keep up to date with all the blogs etc that I follow. However as you will probably know if you read a lot of blogs out there - Google has announced that they are shutting down Google reader from the 1st July.
I have noticed a lot of the blogs I follow have mentioned they are already preparing by jumping over to bloglovin. I set up a bloglovin account a while ago but I have decided to give it a proper go now. I have added a button to the side >>> if you want to follow me over on there so you can still see my updates.

If you do use Google reader you can import any blogs that you read over onto Bloglovin too.. heres how -

1.   Go onto Google reader
2.  Click the settings cog underneath where your email address is
3.  Go to Import/Export tab
4.  Where it says at the bottom - Download your data through Takeout -click that link 
5.  Once it has got to 100% click Create Archive 
6. Next download the Zip file. 
7.  Once it has downloaded you want the file called subscriptions.xml - unzip and save this
8.  Next open up bloglovin and go to settings 
9.  Scroll down and click import
10. Click browse and find the xml file and open that
    
    Done :) 

Since writing this I have also noticed if you go straight into the settings on bloglovin that you can just import from google reader using your email address. They must have caught on to the fact that everyone is swapping to them :)   

 Which ever way you do it - or if your a new follower you can just click the link on the right - make sure you swap over your blogs as from the 1st July you wont be able to use Google reader anymore. I have to say I have been using Bloglovin a few days now and I am already falling in love with it - reading things are there - specifically blogs is actually better than on Google Reader as when you click on the link to the blog you can comment on a post within bloglovin rather than having to then go into blogger and open up the page that way - which I have always found a faff.  

xx