**Collaborative Post**
Being a blogger, I know to get attention the site needs to
have brilliant graphics. I admit
first hand I am not the best graphic designer,
in fact I have never been very good at art,
but I do love to mess around in Photoshop or other design software that I have on my
laptop to make graphics
for my blog posts or to use on my blog Facebook page.
One of the ways I to this is to do mock-ups of my header. I
normally will do a redesign
at least once a year, but quite often I will mess around in
my graphic software to see if
I can create something better than what I had done
previously.
This is the latest design that I did for my blog header, but
I think I will be changing it again
pretty soon as the photograph I used
was taken at the end of June before the boys finished
school and playgroup for
the summer and already, they have both grown up so much!
James is so
much taller!
When I look back at the old cover designs, I have used I can
see exactly how basic the
design was when I first started blogging. Especially
once I set up the Facebook page.
The first graphic I used on there was very basic
and cartoon like. Now I prefer to add
in photographs of us or the kids.
Bloggers are not the old people who use mock-ups, designers
also do mock-ups for their
products. My parents actually have a sublimation set
up, so I have seen how mock-ups
work first-hand. In the past they have made
mugs, t shirts and hats, all with their business
information on. This is such a
good idea as it means when they go to networking events such
as north east expo,
they can hand out things like magnets with their information on and
not just
business cards. I think this is a brilliant idea!
I would love to do a sweatshirt mockup for the boys as I
find it so hard to find sweatshirts
and hoody’s I like for them. Especially as
most places do not do matching in their sizes!
James is about to turn 7 and he
is starting to go into age eight to nine tops and Freddie is
3 and he is
starting to wear four to five. Plus, most of the things on the sweatshirts in
James size are not things that interest him. The same with Freddie, he loves
dinosaurs
but trying to find sweatshirts or hoody’s for him with them on in his
size is near on impossible!
Normally I do not dress the boys in matching clothes, but if
we are traveling or on a big day
out, I do like them to be wearing either the
same t shirts or the same sweatshirts so I can
spot them easily!
For example when we flew to Majorca last year both boys were
wearing the same style of
camouflage tracksuit trousers and the same colour t
shirts, but the only difference was the
colour of their hoody’s as I couldn’t
get one in Freddie’s size that was black like the one
James had and I couldn’t
get a blue one in James size like the one Freddie ended up wearing!
This is a recent idea I came up with for the boys! I think
the design would go down really
well with both of them! They are both crazy
about the Diplodocus since we went to
see Dippy at Great North Museum!
I hope they will like it!
