Is Appearance Really Everything?

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have spent a great deal of time tonight on my blog.  I mean like hours.  Ask my husband and he will agree; lots of time… 🙂  So, where are the posts, you may be asking yourself.  Well, the time spent tonight was not on the content per say, but rather on the appearance of my lovely blog.  I have played around with how my blog looks a few times, but have always stuck with the free themes that WordPress offers us.  I have messed around with uploading a photo here and there, but without much success.  My goal was to ultimately create a background that I have envisioned in my head almost since this blogs inception.  But, in order to do this one needs to know what the heck they are doing, LOL. 🙂  Which I clearly don’t.  However, tonight I did not let that stop me.  I tried on many a custom theme tonight, let me tell ya.  I dabbled in the plethora of colour pallets that each theme offers.  I changed fonts and backgrounds.  I even uploaded a few custom headers, just for the fun of it.  And one stuck!  Well, at least for now it has.  So, that is why my blog looks different today.  That sweet collage up there ^ of beautiful, red maple leaves lying on a bed of ice ( sounds like an entree) is my homage to my roots because I AM CANADIAN gosh darn it!!  And I do like it, but I am not one hundred percent in love with it.  Part of my vision has included some mashing together of little maple leaves and little hidden mickey’s (or mickey icons to some folks), but I lack the skill to see that come to fruition.  But, I am working on it!

Now, tonight as I was messing around I came across a custom WordPress theme ( that means I would have to pay for it) and it grew on me.  The colour scheme was different than I thought I wanted and the pattern was probably the furthest thing from Disney that you can get ( we are not talking skulls and crossbones, but still no flying elephants either).  I let it sit for awhile while I continued my quest for the holy grail, but I kept going back to it.  The funny thing about this new theme was that it does have a direct correlation to a phrase I use with my children all of the time.  That phrase is “I love you to the moon and the stars and back again” and I have always said it to both kids.  So, I got to thinking about what I wanted my blog’s “look” to say about it and to say about me.  Does it have to say that I am a Canadian Disney mom or can it say something else?  I am not sure..

So, I am gonna keep messing around with a few ideas I have and time will tell what I come up with.  I actually took pen to paper tonight ( felt so weird!) and I created some logos for MapleMouseMama.  The drawings are pretty lousy, but if I come up with something great maybe some starving artist will create a nice version for me in exchange for some hot meals. 🙂  Ya, no one is that desperate, LOL.  So stick around folks and stay tuned to see what this outlet of creativity will look like next.  I can not promise a background worthy of Picasso or a header fit for da Vinci, but I can promise something interesting…

FT&PD

Suz