new blog design

So I recently designed some new blogs for my friend Chandi (to see go here, here and here).

As a graphic designer of course I can create whatever I want in Photoshop and Illustrator; but when it comes to applying it to anything web-based my expertise is seriously lacking. So I was all over the internet looking for tutorials to do all the things I envisioned in my head. So here are a few of the tutorials I used in case any of you are up to updating your blogs.

Create your own blog background.
Use your own fonts.

Other than that I didn't really do anything. So have at it!

Test

I'm experimenting uploading larger picture sizes.




Yay it worked! I learned from this blog. If you want to try.

"at?"

It is not unusual for Lily to bring me one of her hats, hold it out to me and go "at?" So I put it on her then we have to go look in the mirror. She loves hats and she loves to see herself in them. EVERY time there is some one at the store, on tv, in a book wearing a hat she says "at". I probably hear that word 50 times a day and yeah, I still think its cute. I don't know where this fascination with hats came from.


Maybe she's embarrassed of how her parents do her hair...




Then tonight, she found her mittens...

Predicament

Well, the good news is our house is under contract! We sold it to the second person who saw it. All the credit goes to having an amazing realtor. Bryan Hurd helped us buy this house and we always felt like he had our best interest at heart so of course we recruited his efforts when it came time to sell it. I truly feel he worked his butt off to get our home sold and would feel totally comfortable referring him to any of my closest friends.

So amongst all this rejoicing of not having to keep our floors mopped daily and the furniture dusted even more, we realized we do have to move.

By March 22.

Then we have to move again three months later.

So considering this I came to my blog. I am recruiting my blog powers in hopes of finding us a place to live for three months. If anyone knows of someone who is desperately trying to rent without having to sign a year lease, then please send us their way! We are really clean and quiet. We are willing to downsize to almost nothing, relocate to anywhere, and of course pay something. So please let us know soon, we're already starting to pack.

Prisencolinensinainciusol

The other day I was asking Eric how he thinks foreigners would impersonate English. A few days later I happened upon this video. It was a song produced for Italian television. According to Wikipedia," the lyrics are pure gibberish, often described as sounding like American English as heard by a non–English-speaker." So there you go. This is what they think we sound like.

A few point I should mention before you watch the clip.
1. The song will get stuck in your head.
2. You will be confused you, because it does sound like English, but nothing discernible.
3. It is pretty freakin' funny.

See more funny videos and Music Videos at Today's Big Thing.

Okay, Now the Real Family Pictures

We had Peekaboo photos take our pictures. They were great to work with, you can't even tell that Lily was being grouchy the last hour we were there. Plus we got the whole disk of high-res photos to keep and print as we please. I would highly recommend them to anyone getting pictures of their kids/family.

I want to frame a large family picture. I've narrowed it down to three. Should we choose A or B or C?
A:
B:
C:

But the real test is narrowing down one to frame of Lily!

Family pictures

I've been wanting a family photo for awhile. I'm realizing that all our posterity will need to look at this picture while doing their family genealogy, our kids will need to have something to laugh at twenty years from now, and will probably need to feature it in a few graduation/marriage montage videos. Who knows. All I know is that this was important. So I set up an appointment, stewed over what to wear, browsed the internet on whether I liked inside/outside shots better and how to coordinate our outfits (all denim? white t-shirts and no shoes on a beach?) As you can see there were a lot of things to consider. Luckily I found awkwardfamilyphotos.com. I got tons of great ideas for our family photo. It helped me plan the whole thing so easily. I highly recommend it. Now all we have to do is sit back and wait for the proofs to come back.

If we had two kids this one would be perfect!


We tried to get a shot like this, but Lily just would not cooperate.


We thought of this one, but neither of us are big Ghostbuster fans. Then we thought Twilight??


Wouldn't Lily look cute in a chainmail shirt and diaper! Adorable!


Wouldn't this be a great Christmas card! If only I would've found it sooner.


Need a wedding photo idea? I thought this one was good. How poetic, they are both holding an object the same way, like he is thinking of marriage and she is thinking of what to serve for the reception. I'm sure you wouldn't even have to use an apple. A banana would also look nice.


I also thought this one was really cool. It is like you are always thinking of the one you love. And look how he is smiling! How sweet! Maybe I can talk Eric into getting one like this.