Valentine's Day is approaching in a few weeks, and I thought it would be fun to feature some of the Valentine's Day inspired skins and themes here on WinCustomize.

Do you add Valentine's skins to your desktop?

Happy Valentines Day by vlad (Wallpaper)

Valentines Day by danilloOc (Start buttons)

Valentine Hearts by AzDude (Dream)

My Dirty Valentine by Vampothika (CursorFX)

Every year the Pantone Color Institute announces color(s) that will express the "mood" of the year. They have picked two interesting choices which are Ultimate Gray and Illuminating.

From their blog:

"PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating, two independent colors that highlight how different elements come together to support one another, best express the mood for Pantone Color of the Year 2021. Practical and rock solid but at the same time warming and optimistic, the union of PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating is one of strength and positivity. It is a story of color that encapsulates deeper feelings of thoughtfulness with the promise of something sunny and friendly.

A message of happiness supported by fortitude, the combination of PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating is aspirational and gives us hope. We need to feel that everything is going to get brighter – this is essential to the human spirit."

I think this combination of colors would actually look good in some skins, especially a Curtains or CursorFX theme. What do you think about these colors for use in themes?

Welcome to 2021! I think we're going to have an exciting year here on WinCustomize, so let's take a look at some of the first skins to hit the galleries this year.

Fishing Fever by Gemmee

Emoji by LightStar

Nothing but Snow by WC_Bot

Forest Stream by Richard Mohler

On behalf of the teams at WinCustomize and Stardock, we'd like to wish our fantastic community a Happy New Year!

2020 has been an.....interesting......year, so let's look forward to 2021 and make it a great one!

Do you have any New Year plans?

We wanted to send a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all our wonderful members! We hope you have and enjoyable holiday, and we'll see you back in the new year!

Thank you for being part of our great community!

The Christmas and the rest of the holiday season is just about here, and we've been talking about and featuring holiday skins for weeks! So now lets show off those holiday creations and see what beautiful seasonal desktops you have displayed!

Head over to our December screenshot thread and post your holiday desktop!

December Holiday Desktop Thread

Screenshot by Chasbo

Just a couple of weeks until Christmas! Today I wanted to feature some of the fantastic holiday WindowBlinds skins we have here on WinCustomize. We have quite a few with a variety of styles and colors, so I'm sure you'll be able to find one you like!

Christmas Joy by LightStar

Snoopy Xmas by don5318

Plastic Fantastic Christmas Edition

GingerBreadHouse by DaveBax

Christmas Holidays v2 by adni18

Just a few weeks left until Christmas and the holiday season, but still plenty of time to get your Windows desktop all decorated! Christmas is the top holiday for skinning, so we have quite a large variety of WindowBlinds skin, DeskScapes animated wallpaper, CursorFX cursor themes, wallpapers and much more available to change nearly every aspect of your PC desktop.

Once you get your PC all ready, head over to our December screenshot thread and show us how you decorated your desktop!

Here are some recommended holiday themes!

Christmas Joy by LightStar (WindowBlinds)

Xmas Holiday by don5318 (WindowBlinds)

Here Comes Santa by joyton (DeskScapes animated wallpaper)

Christmas Elf by Libardo (CursorFX)

ChristmasTime by mormegil (IconPackager)

Tangled Christmas Lights by WC_Bot (Wallpaper)

Christmas Lights by Island Dog (Desktop Gadget)

Can you believe it's December already? I'm excited as the weather is getting cooler here and we're officially in Christmas season! But before we get ahead of ourselves, let's look back at the highlights of November.

Here's a wrap-up of some new, articles, forum posts, and skins you might have missed!

Community Posts You Might Have Missed:

Getting an Early Start on a Christmas Themed Desktop!

Inexplicable Monolith Discovered in Utah's Red Rock Country

For Workflow Efficiency, Look no Further than Groupy

Fences: Making Desktop Customization Work for YOU

Revisiting a Christmas Skinning Classic....ChristmasTime

New and Updated Skins, Themes, and Wallpapers:

MODEL 6IX (CursorFX)

atomic CHARGE (CursorFX)

Windows 11 Light (Curtains)

Relaxing Night (DeskScapes)

River bend_4K (Wallpaper)

Snowman in Winter Ice (Wallpaper)

ENvisionPRO (WindowBlinds)

Techie (WindowBlinds)

For many of us, Thanksgiving is this week, so we wanted to send out a Happy Thanksgiving to all of you and a big thanks to our community. No holiday needed, just wanted to say we appreciate you! Although it's a weird time in the world, we do hope you have a nice holiday. Let us know if you have any holiday plans, or if you just have a nice weekend lined up.

Let us know in the comments below!