Thursday, January 10, 2008

New Header Image?

I've received some suggestions about what my header should be. They've ranged from a wedding picture to The Mr and I emoting (its what we do best) to using our dogs (this is The Mr's idea).

For awhile I was kind of hung up on the idea of it having to be related to weddings somehow. I mean - the title of this blog is "My So-Called Wedded Life". Should it match up? With that said, I have no idea what I want to do. I thought that I'd have the background pic be of my wedding dress still hanging on the closet door in the guest room but its just not very interesting.

Anywho - since Smack asked for more pics, here are some pics I'm considering although I'm not sure how or what or even if these would work (and really... I just want to post cute pictures of my dogs). These were taken with our new 50mm lens and some are with an external flash that Doug was nice enough to give us.

Petie (look at that face!!):


Emily (gah! So cute!):


And together? This picture melts my heart and is now my official wallpaper at work.


Okay, now onto others.

This is me trying to be artsy fartsy. Actually, I was just trying to see how far I'd have to stretch out my arms to take a self-portrait and completely missed most of my face. Although I like it. But perhaps these are too serious?




And now my favorite.

My dogs' new Christmas toy! This picture just cracks me up.

14 comments:

Kate said...

I am OBSESSED with the picture of Petie and Emily together. It could be a calendar picture I think.

And I think the serious photos make me laugh because your blog is not very serious - you're fun and full of life and I don't think these pictures represent that.

Anonymous said...

omg.
1- thank you for doing my bidding, muwahhhhahhahahah
2- I love the one of your lips, HOT
3- that dog toy just made my day, and believe me nutbag, this day needed to be made.

4.5 - I say avoid any actual wedding type pictures. I like how it's your post wedding afterbirth sort of stuff. maybe you should set up a picture of you choking the mr. and somehow get the dogs in the background -- and then crop if just so it's your hands on his throat and yeah.

Shouldn't be too difficult, right? :-3

Jamie said...

Aww...Petie & Emily are so cute!!
With such adorable pooches how can you NOT put them in your header??
(not that you and the Mr aren't adorable too) :)

mainlyclearskies said...

Your dogs are adorable!

The picture with the dog toy made me laugh. Cute!

Eludius said...

Love the new header. And for those of us lucky enough to be invited to the 2nd most awesome wedding ever, we know that those are the colors of the invitation!!! I like it. Good work!

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Le Petit Chic said...

Oh my gosh, your pups are adorable! And I really like your self portraits, especially the first one. Also, cute glasses!

Liz said...

WEINER DOGS!!! WeinerDogsWeinerDogsWeinerDogs!!! Love them.

travelin' girl said...

The Christmas dog toy pic is the best. Maybe you can somehow (non photography person speaking now) mesh the dog toy over a wedding pic. Now that's wedded life.

Nanette said...

Fun pics! That pic of the two dogs is especially AWESOME, as is the dog toy pic.

Girl from Pennsylvania said...

My favorite is the dog toy pic too.

LOVE IT!

As for my new design, I just yahooed blogger templates and found this one. It is just a free downloadable one. I do not possess the talent to design one myself. I could create one in inDesign but I could never do the web parts of it. I too struggle with the fact that I call myself "hotfromthefurnace" but I was so tired of my typewriter like background. It was a little too manly for me. I am not sure if this one is even going to stick for me, if I decided not to keep it, I will send you the codes.

Rotten Ink from a Poison Pen said...

Definitely dog toy picture.

Had you been wearing a green visor and had a yellow lead pencil over your ear in the close up with you in the glasses, that might give you some credibility as a reporter/blogger. Since you carelessly left those items out of the picture, I think you go dog toy.

willikat said...

i love the first picture of you, and also the last one of the christmas toy. :)

Terri: said...

the puppies are uber-cute!

that dog toy picture cracked me the heck up!

Anonymous said...

hi, these pictures are freakin AWESOME!! i can't handle the emily and petie cuteness! ahhh! and the self-portraits...love them. yay for flashes! :-)