Heh, I finally found a way to use my own customized header picture for the journal!
This proved a lot harder than I originally thought since I'm using the Chopsticks theme of the Expressive layout. I love the color and overall look-and-feel of this theme. But this particular style turned out to have less straight-forward customizable options. It took me some time to figure out how to achieve what I want by specifying a Custom stylesheet through Custom CSS under the Custom Options tab on the Journal Display page (accessed by selecting the Customize Journal option from the menu bar.) Phew--that's quite a mouthful. I know this is dorky but I want to record what I did so I can remember later on...
While changing the header picture, I also modified some other aspects of the theme. Here's a list of what I'm able to do:
::sigh:: At this point, I'm throwing up my hands and admitting defeat unless someone can enlighten me on what to do.

While changing the header picture, I also modified some other aspects of the theme. Here's a list of what I'm able to do:
- Use my own banner instead of the original chopsticks and teacup picture in the header.
- Change the bottom border of the header section to black (it was originally white). I like how the thin line giving a clear definition to the bottom edge of the header, thus separating it from the journal's body.
- Remove the thin white border around the header section. This was originally a style set at the layout layer. All themes under Expressive layout have a 1 pixel white border separating adjacent sections. Since the Chopsticks theme is black-and-white-ish, I find the border rather pesky. The theme previously don't have this problem because the original header picture has white background so the border doesn't show.
- Change the color, size, and fonts of the text in the header.
- Change the color of the navigation bar in the header to match with the text color.
- Change the size and font for the journal entry titles.
- Get rid of the pesky black border around my user picture since the avatar I use already has a border.

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