Vale Mandarin Meg

I came across Mandarin design via some blog links from a fair few stateside bloggers. It's a great site which "encourages you to make mistakes". Their little button "trashed by Mandarin" sums up their philosophy nicely.

From their instructions and cool little tips, the-open-mind layout was born....tweaking the cruddy Blogspot template I had. I could have taken it further, but I'm happy enough with the current code. There was a "blogging for postcards" thing going for awhile and I sent Michelle (Meg) a postcard from the Blue Mountains. And now Meg who was a big part of Mandarin is no longer, she had a generous influence on quite a few blogs in the corner of the blog world that I read.