Same blog, different face.
Change is something I’m pretty used to. Sometimes I don’t really like it, but I get on with it regardless. Mostly though I like it. If you’re not changing, you’re standing still, and that is not always a good thing. Think for example if you had not changed your hair from that body wave perm you had in the 80s. Well, OK maybe that was just me, but really it was bad (not that I thought so at the time.)
I change things about myself a fair bit. Different styles of dressing, new hair cuts, new hair colours, I am still fundamentally the same person, but I get bored with the same things all the time. I like to try new things, change up how I dress, how I do my hair. It’s fun. I love clothes, and as I get older I love not being tied to latest trends. Modern, not trendy.
So it is with my blog. I got bored of seeing the same design. I was over it. So I contacted my designer, AKA the Hubby, and sent him a barrage of emails with ideas, fonts and images. An unholy mess of stuff I thought I liked and it was then over to him to make sense of it all and create a new design for me. Lucky he lets me pay in, er, cups if tea. I have a feeling if I wasn’t married to him he may have suggested we were not suited to working together and given me the business card of another designer. One he wants to exact revenge of some sort on.
Change, reinvention, it’s something some people make a living from. I’d say to me Madonna is the master of it. Say what you will about her, but she has managed to stay relevant for at least thirty years, and she didn’t do it by staying the same fresh faced bleached, permed, bra showing, popped coller girl from the borderline video clip (which was my first ever seen Madonna video when I was 10.) Â Now, I’m no Madonna, but I do like a bit of a change.
So then, here is my new blog design. Same me, same writing, different look. And hey, it was cheaper than a new hair colour!
What about you, do you like change? Chase it? Or hate it?
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*love* it, different and yet still you all over!! i will admit to loving your old design though but as someone who craves change on a regular basis, i completely understand why you wanted a new look!
my blog is MIA at the moment because it just didn’t feel right to blog there anymore, i’m SO wanting to move on from all that has been consuming me for so many years and i just felt like i couldn’t escape it there, so its down, probably never to be resurrected and a new one to be started.
enjoy your new abode, as i’m sure i, like all your other readers, will too!
~x~
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Naomi Reply:
February 28th, 2012 at 7:27 pm
I was so over the old blog design. I loved it, but I’d had enough of it.
Perhaps for you a whole new blog would be a good thing, when you’re ready. Looking forward to your new blog. x
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Looks amazing. I love the new look x
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Naomi Reply:
February 28th, 2012 at 7:28 pm
Thanks lovely x
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Oh! I adore it. ADORE! He has done you proud. Real proud. It’s simply beautiful and I can’t stop looking at it.
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Naomi Reply:
February 28th, 2012 at 7:29 pm
Well he does have the inside running on what I like, and what I am like. Thanks, I’ll let him know you like it.
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Looks fantastic
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Naomi Reply:
February 28th, 2012 at 7:29 pm
Thanks Marita x
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I am generally one for change, and easily bored (though a friend is always telling her son “only boring people get bored!”) but I have to admit I am just a tad nostalgic for the old blog – it was classic and timeless and I simply loved it. but, having said that, I will embrace change and enjoy your new, modern, still very much NomiePT, page! Well done hubby!
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Naomi Reply:
February 28th, 2012 at 7:34 pm
I like to know that people liked the old design, I did too, but I was so over looking at it. This is the fourth design I
ve had for the blog, doubt it will be the last!
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I like a bit of change personally. Keeps things interesting. And I love the new look. Wish my Mr had useful skills like this for me to utilise rather than trying to save the environment. I mean really how’s that supposed to help me?
x
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Naomi Reply:
February 28th, 2012 at 7:40 pm
Yeah, what importance is the environment when there’s new blogs to be designed!
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Oooh fancy!! I love it!!
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Naomi Reply:
February 28th, 2012 at 7:40 pm
Thanks Kelly x
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I love change! And your new look is great!! x
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Naomi Reply:
February 28th, 2012 at 7:37 pm
Thanks Jody x
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Love it, absolutely love it! I love change, in all its forms. xx
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Naomi Reply:
February 28th, 2012 at 7:36 pm
I noticed you’ve had a bit of a change on your blog too! Change is in the air! xxx
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Love the new look Naomi, don’t tell him but I am going to ask him to tart up mine too. Mother’s privileges this time … payment in Maltesers!
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Naomi Reply:
February 28th, 2012 at 7:46 pm
I won’t say a thing, promise!
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Looks great Naomi
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Naomi Reply:
February 28th, 2012 at 8:42 pm
Thanks Liz x
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It’s really lovely, Naomi. Stylish, cosy, warm, cool! x
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Naomi Reply:
February 28th, 2012 at 8:41 pm
Thanks so much x
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The art deco font – it’s SO you. I love it.
I am so dull. I have had three makeovers and nothing actually changes! xx
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Naomi Reply:
February 28th, 2012 at 11:29 pm
Thanks. I’m lucky I have Hubby to do it for me, he knows me well & what I like. When I change I go big. For me it’s the only way. X
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Love the new look.
I like big, dramatic changes. Particularly when it comes to hair.
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Naomi Reply:
February 29th, 2012 at 8:08 am
I’m a bit the same. Though I have become a little more conservative in my hair choices as I get older.
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Oooh – very nice digs.
x
Change and I are ‘working on it’.
I resist and then am usually delighted with the new opportunities anyway.
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Naomi Reply:
February 29th, 2012 at 8:11 am
Change is huge. I think for most people some resistance at first is natural.
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Your blog looks great. My word(s) for this year is (Embrace) Change and I am working at it.
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Naomi Reply:
February 29th, 2012 at 8:12 am
Good words
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Really enjoying the blog and the changes. I have been thinking alot about change lately. I find it scary and paralysing but I keep trying to push the boundaries and do it anyway. I think the process of change really opens up this great creative space inside you.
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So perfectly personalised! Great new space Naomi. Love it
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Naomi Reply:
February 29th, 2012 at 11:58 am
Thanks Laney
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Hi Naomi, like the new look, it’s interesting and a unique one. Just wanted to say that it’s refreshing to hear of someone who likes change. I love to change things, and try new things, change routines. All too often I read of people who don’t like change and think – is it only me? Family life means that I have to be a LOT more regular than I’d chose to be… love a wee change now and afain, and thus can’t wait to come to Melbourne!
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