Visual Luxe

I'm sure that by now many of you have noticed the new logo.  It's pretty right?!!  Yea, I love it. What's even better is that I can actually pretty much put it on anything I want to now thanks to Visual Luxe.  What am I talking about?

Well, you see the design of the logo itself I've had for a while now.  It started as sketch on paper, got scanned and uploaded to my computer and that's where I got stuck.  I had no clue how to turn it into a format that would allow me use it.  I couldn't put it on business cards, merchandise or anything because it would end up distorted and funky looking.

Feeling frustrated, I took to Twitter pleading for help from a graphic design expert.  As much as I've had fun playing around with html and blog designing converting this file seemed a little too challenging for me.  I was out of my league.  Thankfully, Christina saw my cry and came to my rescue.  For those of you in the blogging world that don't know Christina, she's the lovely owner and creator of Visual Luxe, a graphic design studio.  I emailed her my logo and she worked her magic on it and turned it into a file that I can now put anywhere.

Christina started Visual Luxe in 2010 after she gave birth to her beautiful baby girl.  "For years, I've had a passion for graphic design," she says.  "I taught myself using Windows 98 and free graphic programs."  What started out as just a hobby eventually blossomed and bloomed into a profession for her.  And let me tell you all, she's talented!  Check our her design portfolio here.

She designs it all from blogs to business cards and printable invitations.  So, if you're thinking about redesigning your blog or need help with a logo like I did visit Christina over at Visual Luxe.  Be sure to tell her that YUMMommy sent you!!  Also while you're at it you can check Visual Luxe out on Facebook and Twitter.  You can also find Christina blogging about motherhood, beauty and more on her personal blog, Being Mrs Jones.

New Look

How do we look?  Yes, this is the new look for the time being at least.  I like to keep things fresh, fashionable and fun around here.

Monday, YUMMommy will return with another guest post for National Breastfeeding Awareness Month.  So, join us.  

My Blog Button!!!

Let me first start off by saying that I'm super excited about many things this week. I got my first fellow Blogger follower from my What I'm Making Monday post!!  And it seems my page view counter has confirmed my suspicions that I have more than a few SBS (Silent Blog Stalkers).  That's great because it means that somebody out there actually gives a hoot about what I have to say and is coming to visit my page.  And now to top it off, I created my own blog button!!

I thought it was going to be super hard to do, but thanks to this really easy to follow tutorial from April Showers Blog Design, I was able to create it in under ten minutes.  I already had a custom created avatar that looks very much like me saved. So all I had to do was upload to Microsoft Paint, add the purple background with pink polkadots, a text box and save it to Photobucket.  From there I just followed the tutorial.  I couldn't believe how cute it turned out.

I mean it doesn't have that complete cartoonish look like some of the other buttons, but it's me.  And I'm sure that as I experiment more and more with Microsoft Paint that I will create a better button.  I even felt inspired to create a button for Etsy shop!!  I am in no way a pro and ready to start creating buttons for others but I might one day.  I feel like  I can finally tackle creating a logo for my Young Urban Modern Mommies brand.

You'd really be surprised at how much quitter people reply to you when you have a logo or face for your brand.  This has just totally made my day.  I can only hope that the rest of this week goes just as well.  I will be trying my hand at making a favicon and eventually a completely customized background for my blog. Wish me luck.  And now the words I have been waiting to say, Grab my buttons from the right and add them to your page.