EDIT: Sorry Photobucket quit on me (bandwidth problems) and so I had to re-upload them on a new server. Sorry if you saw broken images for a while. I deleted the few icons in this post and will re-upload them in a new post. For now I only re-loaded the patterns.
Here are some simple backgrounds to add to your journal (or site) to give it some flair. Right click and save on your own server... DO NOT HOTLINK.
Note: A lot of people underestimate the use they could put background images to. You can not only use them as backgrounds on your lj, myspace, or site, but you can use them in other ways as well. You can use them as backgrounds to headers, or comments. You can also use them as backgrounds that appear behind links when you hover on them instead of solid colors. By adding this to the code: