It’s just blogging… nobody dies.

It’s not quite finished. I have a few tweaks that I need to make and a few things that I need to play with, but for the first time in my bloggy life, I have a designed header here at my digs.

Now there’s a huge story here.

Well, maybe not for you, but for me. It’s big.

Before I went on my trip I was panicking about my blogs and how they weren’t branded and how I needed business cards, etc. Oh it was a dead on tailspin… out of control. I was worried about how I could get two sites branded to look the same and business cards and total redisgns in 4 weeks when I would be out of town and tied up with my own projects.

The amazing part about it is that I have AWESOME friends in the blog world who were READY to make this happen. They were ready to drop everything so that I could get things done.

When I was in Mississippi God and I had a long talk about these blogs-o-mine and I came to the determination that they are blogs. That’s it. They aren’t my sole source of income. I don’t need them to survive. I didn’t start blogging to have followers or make money. I simply needed a place to put pictures and stories for my mother and my friends.

Shoot. I didn’t even know there was a mom blog community out there…. or a personal blog community out there.

After screaming at God to get off my toes… I made the decision that I was going to BlogHer with the blogs that I had. I was going to BlogHer ::Gasp:: unbranded. But that I was going to go and be PROUD of what I’ve created here. I was going to BlogHer as me.

Talk about a HUGE weight lifted. I emailed everyone that was offering to help and told them of my grand aha moment and when I got home, I scrambled to get some business cards made.

The question came up “what do you want?” and honestly, I didn’t know. I kinda knew, but it was bothering me that they weren’t branded these two blogs. Coming from the business world, it was HARD to do it the “wrong way”.

Again, I reminded myself that I was not going to get worked up over blogging and we hammered out the business cards.

When I saw the design for the card, I knew instantly what kind of blog design I wanted. I spent all day Friday mulling it over in my head and I finally determined that it wouldn’t be hard for me to get it turned around because the design had already been done… on the card. As soon as I saw that card, I knew. And I’ve not known what I’ve wanted for 18 months when it comes to this.

Thirty minutes later, I had a blog up on a test site. And this morning, I took it live.

MUCHO MUCHO MUCHO thanks to Karen at Simply Amusing Designs who turned around the cards and the header so quickly… and I love the scribble don’t you? She’s pure genius I tell ya! GEEN-EEE-US!

I think we’ve determined that the scribble is my new trademark. I love it.

I learned alot about me, about my blog, about the people who care about me while I was gone. I also learned that when I let go and let God run the ship, I get more than I ever bargained for.

And seriously? It really is JUST blogging… no body dies.

Until next time…