Last night, in an act of total bloggy spontanaiety, I found some illustrations I liked on istockphoto, downloaded them, and asked my hubby to work his Photoshop / Illustrator magic. He created my new banner while he was EATING A BOWL OF CHILI, so it’s a tender memory, the revamping of the blawg.
I also changed the color on the sides, and to do this I used the widely respected design method of looking at the previous color number on my template (it was 692), and then trying 100, 200, 300, 400, etc. and just seeing what I ended up with. I went through several variations of brown, then decided I’d try the number 450 (I’m telling you, it was a terribly methodical process), and what do you know? 450 was a nice forest green and exactly what I wanted.
Also, you may have stopped by last night when the sides of the blog were orange, and if so, I apologize. I hope you didn’t awaken your family with your cries of “MY EYES! MY EYES!”
The orange was a little, um, loud.
So if you’ll excuse me, I have to leave for an appointment with an insurance adjustor regarding The Unfortunate Deer Incident. It promises to be loads of fun with all the talk of bumpers and frames and grills…I’ll be sure to fill you in on all the Exciting Details when I return.
Happy Fall, everyone!
What a nice surprise on the glorious fall morning!
Love the new look!
Mediocre content? Bah! I liked to BE so mediocre. ;)
Love the new look!
looks great! I’m setting up a new template for winter to publish as soon as we get some snow ’round heah
May I just say (and please forgive the language) “Don’t take any crap from the insurance adjuster.” I was an insurance agent for 10 years. Please let me know if I can be of any help.
LOVE the new look, too!
I love the new look BooMamaw. The time seems to be well spent.
Keep with the mediocrity. It seems to be working…
I love it, beautiful.
Very fall-ish. I like it. I went back to my wordpress site instead of the typepad (not free) so my blog isn’t cute at all anymore. I miss my chalkboard already…
I LOVE the new look. By the way here’s a helpful hint. You can use this link
http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html
to help you with colors. It actually is exact colors and you can swap it out and see the color swatches on their site. If you need any other great HTML sites I use all kinds of websites to help me with the blogs I design for fun (I am NOT good believe me) but I enjoy it.
Let me know if you need any other HTML help sites.
Found your blog a few weeks ago randomly and I love it. I like the new background and everything as well. I need to be more blog savy. :)
love the new look!
Love it!
I was just stopping by because I’m having one of THOSE days and said to myself, “Self, you need you some Boomama – get yourself on over there and get a fix!” And what do you know, I was RIGHT. Oh yes. Especially when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a brand new fall-ish look! Ain’t it grand!!
And the color of the sides just matches my eyes as I’m suffering from envy in a very. big. way.
But we won’t mention that.
Congrats on the new look!
Sounds like a wonderfully thrilling morning. Have fun with that.
I like the new look.
You make it look so easy!
Thank goodness for a techy guy around.
Love it, love it, love it. Especially the green sides. Very nice!
Love the Fall look!
Looks great – nice and “fallish”!! It took me so long to just get the basics on my blog that I’m afraid to touch a thing. I’ll just enjoy your new look.
FYI your content is never mediocre. :)
Nothin’ mediocre about you. . .I don’t even know you, but it’s seems like you’re an all or nothin’ kind of gal–the new blog is very autumnal.
love the look! And the story of mcd’s is hilarious! Only b/c I feel for ya! hugs!
Your new look is TOO KEWL! Awesome! Your chili-eating hubby is a talented guy! Hope your meeting went well.
Happy fall!
You know, when I saw this, the first thought that popped in my mind was, “Wow, that Boomamaw sure is hip for a grandma!”
;)
Love the new look, and Mediocre and boomama don’t belong in the same sentence!
Jenny in Ca
Love the colors! I wish I was talented enought to change blog looks. I wouldn’t even know where to go find 450. :v)