Notice anything different?
To the right?
To the left?
Up?
Down?
I know! I know! I am in love with my new place. It has the right balance between color and black and white, retro and today, perkiness and angst (OK, it might be a little light on the angst, but who needs a whole bunch of angst anyway?).
Can I just say that Nap Warden is the most patient, long-suffering, capable, level-headed, creative person I have worked with in a very long time.
And NICE. So NICE. Probably too NICE. She could write a giant essay…maybe even a book about what a pain I have been about this.
Here is my side of the story. I love my blog. I loved the way it looked but wanted to make a change. I wanted my blog to scream “HOLLY!”.
Nap Warden did an amazing job. She designed a fabulous look that I ALMOST had her install last week. Then at the last minute I changed my mind…
And then started at square one again. She was so sweet that her obvious head banging and cursing in the general direction of Texas did not translate in her emails.
After another week of emails, scans, links and marker drawings, this is what we came up with.
I love it.
This is what a visual scream “HOLLY!” looks like (today).
Thank you Nap Warden. I will release you from any designer-client privilege to tell your tale of woe. You might even want to develop some sort of screening process to assure you never have another high-maintenance-like-Holly client.
-I will be all official at my very own .com address
-I will have Feedburner installed properly (unlike the unsuccessful attempts of my past)
-I will have email subscriptions available (mom)
-I am changing to Haloscan for comments so that I can more easily track you down
-and a few more things that hopefully will make things easier
Please hang in there while the kinks are worked out.
And go visit Nap Warden who will be very available in a few days. After me, you will be a breeze…
I love it! I’d say you’re headed for the big time in blog world.
It is swell, indeed.
(And glad I’m not the only high maintainence client out there! After Shauna did my redesign, I went in and (gasp!) changed a bunch of stuff myself because, well, I’m high maintianence picky that way. She was very gracious about it too, but I kind of suspect there was a little head banging going on behind the scenes & her payment was well earned! :)).
Nap Warden is the bomb! She does such an amazing job – and this is truly wonderful.
Hurray for Holly!! Hurray for Nappy!
Oh My GAWD, I love it! Totally retro and awesome! Good job to both you and Nap Warden! 🙂
It’s fab!
I wish you could see my face right now.
I wish I could see it…. maybe I should freeze my expression and go take a look…..
It’s like a “gaping mouth, totally delighted, wide-eyed, almost speechless” look.
But I did say almost. Speechless.
I’m never speechless.
I LOVE THIS! I LOVE YOU!!!!
Hey – did you see Blah Blah’s Dallas bloggers get together idea?
http://shaunacallaghan.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-have-this-idea.html
I scream FABOO! Dig it man.. totally.
Now this looks AWESOME!! I may have to get the Nap Warden to help me out someday… once I figure out what I want to do, of course. 🙂
First your hair and brows, now the blog… what’s next?
It looks great!!! I’m loving the changes!!! New looks are so exciting, aren’t they?!?!
I LOVE IT!
It’s gorgeous and retro and Sassy and everything I imagine you to be in real life!!
Nap is awesome isn’t she :-)!!!