You might be wondering, Why the new look?, and I certainly wouldn't blame you.
I have been mulling this over for three, almost four, months now...kind of like mapping out plans for spring cleaning.
And now I am just going to ramble and hope that maybe at least a little bit of it makes a tiny bit of sense. Stick with me, please. :)
I started blogging in September of 2008. I had no idea what I was doing and when I signed up, I used "ang4332" as my url because I knew that it was something I could remember. This is why...
4332 were the last four digits of the phone number where my mother worked when I was in middle school and high school. I was home by myself every afternoon and the first thing I had to do when I walked in the door was to call her at work. When I turned 16 and opened my first checking account and had my first ATM card, I used 4332 as my code (not to fear, it is no long my code for anything...sheesh...I wouldn't be sharing this story with you if it was) because I knew it was a four digit number that I would never forget.
In, I don't know, 1999? 2000? Whenever it was when I signed up for my hotmail account, it was the rule of thumb to not use your name in your address. So, in order to be clever, I chose "ang4332" as my email address....because I would always remember it.
Etsy user id? Yep, you guessed it...ang4332....because I would remember it.
Now, while I have often beat myself up over this (because really, who else in the world is going to remember ang4332??? And from a business/marketing stand point, surely that can't be a good thing!), it has allowed me this one luxury... I can change my blog name and my shop name pretty easily at this point. And everything matches - my email, my blog, my shop.
So, back to the lecture at hand...
I wanted the names of my blog and my shop to coordinate. And I couldn't make either of them bend to serve double duty. So the brainstorming began.
Life With Ike {and a husband, twin girls and a wild little boy}. I went round and round with it in my head before I even got a few other people to weigh in on it. It came down to this and one other (which I am not going to tell you)...I had hired the blog designer and a decision had to be made. So, I made it. And here we are.
Ike and Co. {handcrafted for stylish women}. Modern. Fun. Hip. That's what I was going for.
I'm sure that I could go into much more depth about how I came to these decisions, and maybe some day I will, but for right now, I think that's enough. I don't want to completely bore you. :)
There will be some more changes in the next weekish or so. {Both in the shop and the blog!} I hope you like it...I sure do!
1 comment:
I just love your new direction!!! It's so you! Love reading about your life Angie. You have a way with words. Off to look at all the cute new things in your shop. If you want to do a giveaway on my site, let me know :)
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