Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

This here website has been up and running for OVER FIVE YEARS now. Please, just take a moment to let that one sink in. Other than my husband, I’ve never even had a relationship last longer than three years, let alone five. And we all know what’s happened to most of my hobbies (oh, shut up, I’m very important and busy) that have fallen by the wayside. Sometimes I look back at this site and can’t believe how much has changed in my life. I mean, back when we started this site, I didn’t know anyone who had a blog, and now I read tons of them regularly. Other bloggers have taught me how to take photos, how to sew (ahem, I will do this…someday), how to do my hair, where to buy awesomely weird furniture and everything else that I could possibly imagine.

But the time has come for some changes around here, and since I usually go at projects like this with extreme vigor just to have them totally pitter out after a few days, I’m taking this one slowly. I’ve gone through four redesigns since I started writing online, but haven’t touched the design here since 2007. In web-years, this site’s design is having a mid-life crisis, and only I can save it from buying itself an overpriced red sports car and finding a boyfriend 10 years younger (although, if anyone has any boyfriend suggestions, I’m sure my site will consider them) is by giving it a facelift.

Step One: My masthead.

(For those of you that don’t speak “Internet,” it’s the title at the top of the page.)

Oh, golly, if I could only show you all of the mastheads that this poor site has had to endure. Do you all remember the “iPod Baby?” Technically, Trent did that one, right after we got our hands on Photoshop for the first time, but holy cow, it freaked me out. It was like a giant blob with headphones over a frightening color background that could only be described as “PINK!!!!!”

So the masthead that I’ve had on this site for the past two and a half years was one I created while still new to Photoshop and in the midst of thinking of a clever tagline to go after the whole “Crazybananas” part. I was messing around with the template and had the placeholder text “a working mom gone crazy” as my tag when I uploaded it to the site to make sure the sizing was correct. Then I fell asleep for two and a half years, woke up, and realized that tag is so dumb it makes my eyes bleed. And also, butterflies? Why did I think having a butterfly on my website was a good idea? I don’t even like butterflies.

What I need from you people are some suggestions for a new tagline and anything you’d like to see in my masthead. Any ideas, oh creative ones? Should I just stick a LOLCatz up there and call it a day? Do you miss the butterfly? Too bad, it’s gone forever. But any other ideas I’ll definitely consider. Especially since I don’t seem to have any of my own.

Let the creativity commence!