My first redesign attempt
After about half an hour struggling with photoshop brushes, vector graphics, textures... I kind of came up with a fist design which I found OK. It will not be final, it's still very far from being the design I want but I've started to walk the way towards my new blog design
Here is a screenshot of the header:
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For comments use the comments section below ;). Please tell me what you think, if you think something about it...
I still need to work a lot on it, but well, at least now I've started.

lovely and very appealing!