Added a Blinkie & the Proper Linkie!

I'm so proud of me!  I figured out how to add Manipulated by Magik's Blinkie to my page!  I just bought her new Steam Punk'd kit and am looking forward to playing with it ASAP!

My First Attempt....

Well, kept looking at various people's blinkies and tried and tried to figure out what they had done.

Just winging it all on my own here is my rudimentary 1st Attempt:

 

However a wonderful person [am I allowed to say your name?] contacted me and is helping me out with encouraging words and tut links!

I promise my next attempt will be better!

Desperately ISO [In Search Of]

I am DESPERATELY ISO a tut for how to make the type of blinkie/banner over there to the right for the blog hop.
I have been searching for about a week now and, although everybody seems to have one of these fabulous things, nobody seems to have written a tut for it.  At least not that I can find.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I cannot afford to hire it done so I need to learn how to do it myself.