I just spent the last two hours putting together what I had hoped would be jenn.nu’s next layout. I picked out colors, found a nice pattern, figured out how to add a highlighted area in the middle, found a great textured paper on Deviant Art, downloaded two or so dozen grungy fonts, and messed around with textures and brushes to come up with this:
I love it, but it’s way too minimal for my site, no matter how much I may wish otherwise. I like my layouts like I like my purses — big and with plenty of room to spare!
Gah.
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, on August 19 2009 at 4:52am:
I like the colors a lot. Sorry it’s not going to work though, 
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, on August 19 2009 at 7:29am:
Aw I really like it, I hate when that happens.. sucks…
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, on August 19 2009 at 8:34am:
I really like the color of the layout. Too bad it won’t work for you!
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, on August 19 2009 at 9:15am:
I love the color, but I am like you I like it bigger and bolder. I don’t care for the font, but I think on a larger layout it might not look overpowering to me. You’ll come up with something using that as a starting point, you are too good at this not to!
, on August 19 2009 at 7:09pm:
It looks cute but you definitely have to like it more than anyone else! I hope that you find something else that you like, hun! If anything, at least you got some more experience messing around with graphics and some web design, at least?
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, on August 19 2009 at 10:20pm:
Thanks for the input guys! I’m going with some drastically different though. 
, on August 20 2009 at 2:19am:
It’s pretty (I’m a sucker for red) but I absolutely adore this other layout you chose for the site.
Hi, I’m Carli. I read your site often so I though it was about time I came out of the woodwork to say hello, haha.
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As the domain name suggests, my name is Jenn, and I own this blog. I'm 26 years old and married to my one true ♥, Daniel. And while I have two kids (Alyssa is five, and Ryan is three), you won't find "mommy" in my username or email address, nor does my blog revolve around them. I'm a mother, but most importantly I am me, with a passion for love, blogging, reading, and photography. I'm also a busy freelance writer, web designer & SEO goddess.
I like it! Also, by having a more minimal design it will force you to re-evaluate what you REALLY MUST HAVE, and it also has visitors focus more on the content via all the wee tidbits and such.
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