After being gifted with stuck reading my “Dear Google” help post, I now want to turn the tables to ask all of you for help.
I’m bored.
I’m bored with my header image and tagline. It was very nice to begin with (and I still am eternally grateful to Blog Makeover Diva for her amazing facelift work), but now I feel my tagline is just a little dull. It doesn’t really describe all that this blog is, or all that I am. Maybe I’m just hitting the 7-month itch, but I need something new, beyond just a blog facelift. I need to brand this baby.
Worst of all, I have nothing to put on a t-shirt. Because, of course, it’s all about pimpin’ da blog at Blogher! I need a logo, or a catchy saying. I’ve managed to put together shirts for others, but not for myself. But summer is here and my mind has turned to mush, and so I’ve decided to make this into a pseudo-contest and get help from my brilliant, witty, talented readers.
The Pseudo-Contest:
1. Give me a suggestion for a new tagline, or if you’re less the wordy-type and more the graphic-type, suggest a new logo (if you are able to design it, even better!). Hell, if you come up with a better name for the site, I’ll consider that as well!
2. Either post your suggestions here, link to them from your site, or e-mail me with your ideas.
3. Winner(s) will be chosen by myself.
4. What do you win? You may choose a shirt for yourself or your little one from my Cafepress store. Right now there are only two designs – if the “Woman, Daughter, Wife, Mother, Blogger” shirt doesn’t quite fit your personal set of labels (like, say you’re not a wife, or not a woman), I’d be happy to re-do the shirt to whatever labels you would like. Plus, if you’re attending Blogher, I will gladly buy your first drink. (More stuff may be added to the prize winnings, if possible. I’m poor, and we’re still waiting on Aaron’s job offer.)
That’s the details for now. You’ve got until my 30th birthday, which is June 21. I hope to reveal the new tagline/logo/whatever on my birthday.
So help a mommy blogger out and give me some of your creativity. You’re all smart people, you know my blog well, and I know you can help me better than Yahoo! Answers could.
A little help here, please?
Interesting. Although I think (just my observations) your title and tagline are good, I can understand the change in scenery (coming form the gal that changes her blog theme in tune with her cycle every month hehe).
I may have to see if I can get some stuff done and meet the deadline…that is a reach but stranger things have happened 🙂
Good luck! I hope the entries are the perfect solution to your itch!
That photo of Cordy is the cutest one yet!
Good idea for a contest. I am struggling with the same thing myself – need a facelift, tagline and something better.
I like your name and tagline but if I think of anything better, I’ll be glad to share.
oooh, yummy, a contest! And a contest to help out a fellow blogger–even better. I will put my creative thinking cap on and get back to you.
And once again, cute pic of Cordy. But that goes without saying!
You take the best pics of Cordy! I guess it does help when you have the most photogenic child on the planet. I’ll start brainstorming.
For some reason, I’ve had the hardest time remembering who “A Mommy Story” is – I’ll look at it on my blogroll and think, “Who is that again?” and then click on it and say, “Oh, it’s Christina and Cordy!” I think Cordelia is such a cool name I’d love to see that incorporated somehow – but I totally suck at thinking up those kinds of things (I’m virtually incapable, for instance, of signing cards with anything other than my name and an xoxo), so hopefully you’ll get good entries from somebody who’s not so creatively challenged.
I love that picture of your punkin pie. So cute.
How about:
A Mommy Story
This ain’t no show on TLC – this is Real Life!
I’m thinking. I love trying to be creative. We’ll see how this goes for me!
I’m gonna think about this for awhile.
*goes off to google hippie tree hugger wedding dress*
heh
Hmmmmm ….. I’ll be thinking. I love me some free T-shirts!
Along the lines of what Bubandpie said – and I’ve said this to you before – I think that it needs to incorporate Cordy. Supahstah Cordy, about whom I think, every time I read one of your stories or see her picture – ‘if any child has the power to match the imperially ambitious WonderBaby, it is this warrior child.’ Who, I’m sure, could take me down just as effectively as WB.
But I’ll have to give it more thought. In any case, I’m going to want one of those t-shirts. Just don’t know how I’ll wear it and the Lilliputian tee at the same time…
I’m thinking!