Surprise! I made this new layout during the past 24 hours, it was inspired by Oridusartic. My twitter followers might have noticed my tweets about this new layout. 
I don’t usually changed my layout this often but I’ve noticed a few sites with very similar designs to my previous Scrapbook layout. Hence, I decided to draw a new one yesterday. I feel honoured that someone thinks mine is good enough to be duplicated though. I might be using this design for my name cards as well, maybe replacing the devil with my trademark panda, we shall see. 
So, why monsters? (Yes, it’s a monster or devil, not a cow, pig, bee or panda) I saw a tweet from Oridusartic with a link to a list of adorable monsters and I decided to try drawing something new. I’ve never drawn a monster before and let me tell you it’s super tough to draw a cute monster. The one in this layout – Blurry is not exactly adorable either. It’s my best shot though. It was without wings initially. Here are some of the different types of wings I’ve drawn for him.
Wings wings and more wings
It has a Chirstmasy feeling, no? The background isn’t very logical as well with lollipops growing on the grass. It’s suppose to be snowing as well. Nevertheless, like what Oridusartic had told me – anything can happen in “our world”. 
I’m still using the tab navigation style but I flip the words over so that it’s easier to read now. If you look around the website, I didn’t change all of the styles (eg. headers). I still like the old ones, plus I couldn’t think of a better one … yet. I still maintain the notebook style because of the same reason – I still like it.
I would like to express my thanks to Oridusartic, Terry, Liling, Chewy and Huaian for comments and advice before I launched the final layout. 
Credit for the post title goes to James! This layout is extremely random. I’ve no explanations as to why it is snowing when the grass is green. Why are lollipops all over the ground? Why are there shadows when there is no sun?
I have also done cross browser checks on Firefox 3.5.3, Internet Explorer 8, Google Chrome 3, Safari 4.0.2 and Opera 10. It should most probably work in the latest browsers and in resolutions of 1024×768 and above. A JavaScript enabled browser is recommended.
20 September, 2009 at 4:44 pm
OMG! New layout!! it’s utterly gorgeous!!! I love you dayna for making such gorgeous layouts!!! I liked your old one more though coz it had pictures of you along the left side.. But this one is way too pretty
Sigh, you’re so talented. I love your illustrations!!! heh. <3
20 September, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Thank you so much! I love you too
You can put my photos on your desktop so that you can see me everyday. LOL! 
Anyway, we should meet up sometime for coffee.
20 September, 2009 at 4:33 am
LOL XD I didnt think i used it that much but obveously i do. Lol.
Michael 
20 September, 2009 at 2:00 am
The monster is soo cute!
I really like the layout, great job on it! 
19 September, 2009 at 10:09 pm
This layout is so cute! Great job on the illustration, by the way. Such a cute monster!! So what’s its name?
19 September, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Thank you. It’s called Blurry.
19 September, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Wow, I didn’t know you’re churning out the layout *that* quickly!
I must say I gotta love this one-column layout! It’s a shame that others are too busy copying your layout instead of spending time to come out with something more creative but I guess that also means that you’re popular
teehee.
The white clouds in the header does make it feel like Chrismas! Oh and did I say that I absolutely love the way you separate the header from the content by using a row of white puffy cloud? That’s a brilliant idea and they look so adorable.
p/s: Yesterday I went to Bugis to collect my camera equipment and as I walked past Iluma I was immediately reminded of you. I guess that was because you blogged about it before, hehe. It’s funny that I actually associate your name to the mall
19 September, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Haha! I admit I was a bit rushing it because of school work.
I’ve always been a fan of one column layouts, I can’t remember when is the last time I’ve a layout with a sidebar.
Haha, really? I’m so honoured that it’s “renamed” as Dayna’s Mall in your CPU.
Talking about Illuma, it’s so quiet there. I wonder why…
19 September, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Absolutely LOVE the new layout. It is fantastic for the time you spent on it
19 September, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Love your new layout!! I love the color of the sky!! Very cute!
19 September, 2009 at 3:23 pm
This layout is AMAZING. I always love your layouts
! I can’t believe you did it all in one day, that’s amazing aswell xD
19 September, 2009 at 2:22 pm
I love your new theme! It’s alright because it’s really cute + playful. I’m glad you’ve made a very neat and nice outcome and it’s a “wow” that you could draw a super cute little monster like that. I hope that I could also do things like these, haha! Keep up the good work!
19 September, 2009 at 11:58 am
Ah yes i’ve been seeing your tweets about coming up with a new layout and all and i’m not surprised that it turned out to be really cute, yet again
Your “monster” is adorable! Who cares if the background isn’t logical, it’s super cute anyway and it goes well with your character! Awesome stuff on the wings development, too! Haha 
19 September, 2009 at 7:50 am
WOW! This layout is awsome. I love it
I’m Michael I loved the wings the 3rd one the best 
Michael
19 September, 2009 at 6:19 am
Oh my god, this layout is so amazing. :O You’re incredibly talented, but of course you know that already.
) Gahhh, I must steal your skills.