Woo-Hoo

Perhaps you're sick of my blogger problems but just in case anyone else ever needs to figure the same thing out here's the deal:  You can very easily make a new author for your blog, just like Becky said, but not just any email address will work, you need to have a google account that's different from the one you're currently using for your blog.  I didn't have one, and I found it was easiest to sign up for a new google account and then invite that account to be an author.  When you sign up for a google account you'll automatically get signed up for google+ also.  I didn't want a whole google+ profile of myself out on the web so I found the "delete google+" option and now I just have an extra gmail account.  Then you have to sign in with your old account and change the new one from just an author who can only post, to "admin" so that you can change the background, etc. on your blog when/if you want to, although you could just sign into your original account to do those type of things instead.  Then you'll have another GB of free storage.  Use it wisely!  ;)

Yay for Becky!

Who told me how not to have to start a new blog or resize all my pictures.  Thanks Becky!

Actually, I just had this happen--just create a new author for your blog. You just need another e-mail address--I used my husbands!  Here's a link that tells you how to do it:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2072066_multiple-authors-post-blogger-blog.html

Here's What I Found Out

I googled what to do when you reach your upload quota and here's what I found:

Free storage limits

Picasa Web Albums offers 1 GB of free storage for photos and videos. However, files under certain size limits don't count towards this free storage limit. This applies to uploads for other Google product that store photos and videos in Picasa Web Albums, including Blogger, Google+ and Google Maps.
The free storage sizes are good for sharing photos on the web, but if you prefer to upload your images at a larger size for better quality (archival or print), you can buy more storage at any time. Learn more about Google storage.
If you've signed up for Google+

Free storage limits

Photos up to 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won't count towards your free storage.

Automatic resizing

All photos uploaded in Google+ will be automatically resized to 2048 pixels (on their longest edge) and won't count towards your free storage quota.
All photos uploaded from the Picasa software or in Picasa Web Albums over the free size limit will count towards your 1 GB of free storage. When you reach your storage limit, any new photos you upload larger than the free size limit will be automatically resized to 2048 pixels (on their longest edge).

If you haven't signed up for Google+

Free storage limits

Photos up to 800 x 800 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won't count towards your free storage.

Automatic resizing

All photos uploaded over the free size limit will count towards your 1 GB of free storage. When you reach your storage limit, any new photos you upload to Picasa Web larger than the free size limit will be automatically resized to 800 pixels (on their longest edge).

So I took a look at my picture sizes and sure enough they're over the 800x800 pixels that don't count toward your limit.  This probably explains why I know people who've had blogs much longer than me who haven't reached their quota.  So now I'll have to decide if I want to spend a bunch of time making my already published pictures smaller so I don't have to start a new blog.  I'm thinking no but I have to go pick up the boys from school right now so I'll decide for sure later...
 

Question

Hey blogging friends, perhaps you noticed my teeny tiny picture at the top.  Well, my blog tells me I've reached my photo upload quota and won't let me upload it bigger or any other pictures.  Has this ever happened to anyone else?  Is the only thing to do start a new blog (or pay for more space which I of course won't do)?  I tried deleting an old post with a bunch of pictures but it didn't help.  Just wondering....