Showing posts with label Blog design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blog design. Show all posts

July 13, 2015

A new blog name and some funny stuff


Kristin's kNook

I always knew a new blog name would be coming.  I just didn’t know when necessarily and I’m notoriously bad at naming things. More importantly, I wanted the name to actually mean something. If you've been around for more than a few weeks, you'll know that this name is certainly meaningful to me.

I’m not sure what to make of my blog most days.  It’s not a married life blog. It’s not a food blog. It’s (certainly) not a fashion blog. It’s just my blog.  So I started looking for words that encompass “me”.  Well, it took awhile. I couldn’t settle on anything.  I tossed some ideas around one day while I was sitting in traffic. I wanted something that was familiar to me, yet didn't label me as a certain type of blogger.

So this will be familiar to you, familiar to me, and I think will allow me to do all the stuff and things I want to with this space. Also, I bought my domain after FIVE years of blogging. So, yay me.

And let's thank Angi because her help is invaluable and I always seem to come up with these crazy ideas on Fridays and she always has everything done for me by Sundays. She's ridiculously good at design and you should ask her to reopen both her Etsy shop and her blog as soon as possible. 

So, onward and upward, yes?

Because it's Monday.

Because I have a class to take this week on "document-based questions, grades 3-6".

Because we are nearing the end of this deployment. I feel weird calling it a deployment.  5 months rotating around Europe does not a deployment make, you know?

Because there have been some funny ones on Pinterest lately.

 Like, I hate him. But still.  I kinda like him.  This is a motto everyone should live by.

If you're falling into the comparison trap, think of this.



Amazon Prime has been my drug of choice lately. 
I'm almost done with Grimm and I don't like the feeling.


With back-to-school season comes the judging of font choices.  




Someone commented on this with "I want to know who pulled off that lie with a straight face".  
I can't stop laughing. 

 All pins can be found on my Pinterest board




July 1, 2013

New month, new look!

Hello there!  This is my new look!  What do you think??

I'm so excited about this blog design.  I'm head over heels in love with it.  It's the honeymoon phase...where I'm clicking to my own blog just to marvel over how pretty it is.

Okay, I'll stop now.

For the last few months, I've thought, "I should do a new design. I know nothing about design. Never mind that."

Then, it got to where I wasn't excited about blogging because I didn't like what I was looking at everyday.  But I kept going because I so love talking to all of you.

Finally, on Friday night, Scott was out fishing and I was sunburnt on the couch, watching re-runs (or something equally exciting).  I thought, "Dang it. This has got to change." In particular, the 3 column design was driving me crazy.  I wanted more space. I felt claustrophobic and you all know I really don't like clutter.

So I emailed Angi and asked her if she could re-do my blog design.

Dealing with a blog re-design can be stressful, especially if you have no idea what you're doing.  Luckily, I have many blog friends who are awesome at design.  I knew Angi, in particular, probably wouldn't mind my millions of questions and specific requests.

That was Friday night.

Today is Monday.

It's done and you are looking at it.

I think you should hire her if you're in the market for a blog design.  Not only was it quick and painless, but she truly loves design.  Check out her shop.  This girl knows what she's doing!  Thank you Angi!

*Also, if I could direct you to the header (don't you love it?), there's Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Bloglovin' buttons.  Follow me if you'd like!  

**Oh, does anyone want to continue the button swap for July or begin a button swap?