2013 mastheads

January 2013

February 2013
sugary sweet.

March 2013

JT does it again.

April 2013
a tribute to our eastward move

May 2013

probably one of my favorites.

Summer 2013

apparently I got a little lazy and started making seasonal mastheads

Fall 2013

October 2013

trying to get back on the monthly masthead train

November 2013

i remembered about halfway through the month that i hadn't changed from october.

i had this font and figured i probably won't use it for anything else.

December 2013

just some holiday plagiarism.

2012 mastheads

January 2012: counting it all joy

James 1:2

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February 2012: it gets the people going!

Jay-z & Kayne & Will Ferrell?!

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March 2012: ... He faithful will remain...
From my favorite hymn, "Be Still My Soul"

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April 2012: living young & wild & free
So what? (Oh please, Internet, understand that I make many of these mastheads ironically.)

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May 2012: always joyful selves are singing
from ee cummings' "sweet spring"

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June 2012: suddenly my prayers are coming true
from Mandi Mapes' song "This Love" - about adoption!

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July 2012: on the verge of mommyblog
it's happening... slowly but surely, it's happening.

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August 2012: looking motherly
my friend said this about one of my outfits, and I just had to laugh & embrace it...

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September 2012: three is a magic number
we left september 1st to go pick up our son from ethiopia!

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October 2012: going gorillas
I couldn't possibly know what this is from. (*cough*kanyejayz*cough*)

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November 2012
I don't know. My minimalist phase.

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December 2012: joy beyond the walls of the world
an awesome Tolkien quote.

2011 mastheads

January 2011: 
um, this one is missing in action. Oops.

February 2011: I got that boom boom pow

From "Boom Boom Pow" by the Black Eyed Peas

March 2011: intellectually credible and existentially satisfying

I almost didn't use this, because it was a David Platt line talking about Christianity... it seemed a little self-absorbed to use as the tagline for my blog, but I couldn't stop giggling about it...

April 2011: no fiddle-diddling

From our class trip to D.C. - our tour guide kept saying this when she wanted us to hurry.

May 2011: less than ordinary

From "Story of Love" by Mandi Mapes. "Just like the sun lights up the moon, this love is a reflection of more than just me and you. Our lives were less than ordinary and while I couldn't see past tomorrow, God was making history. What a beautiful story of love."

June 2011: peanuts to an elephant

Whoops! That's from a Li'l Wayne song. How did that get on here?

July 2011: this grace that i've received, i want to show you

From Mandi Mapes's song "This Love". Doug & I did our pre-screening for adoption in July, and this song is about adoption.

August 2011: rockin' the suburbs

From the Ben Folds song/album. Celebrating one year in our first house.

Sept. 2011: sharing rainbows of happiness

The best fortune cookie I have ever gotten: "Loving is sharing rainbows of happiness." I still don't even know what that means.

Oct. 2011: a giddy thing
From a Mumford & Sons song - "Sigh No More"

Nov. 2011: i guess i have got my swagger back.
Image stolen from the Internet - cover of Jay-z & Kanye album Watch the Throne. Line is sort of from their song "Otis".

Nov. 2011 - 2: every day, a day closer
The last one just seemed too cocky. And too gold.

Dec. 2011: peace on earth, good will to men

2010 mastheads

January 2010: a new hope

As it turns out, this is actually the name of Star Wars: Episode 4, but I honestly didn't know that when I made this. I was just voicing the way I feel at the beginning of each new year...

Februray 2010: a little more funk, a little less jive

I'm not really sure where this came from. The depths of my bizarre mind, I suppose.

March 2010: It's a party in the USA!

Yes, that's Miley Cyrus. You'd better click "unfollow".

April 2010: full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse

From "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot

May 2010: ya'll can't match my hustle

From "Spaceship" by Kanye West

June 2010: the pox of such antic, lisping, affecting fantasticoes

From a line by Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet

July 2010: out wandering the world...

Just an accurate summation of that particular month

August 2010: Do I dare disturb the universe?

Also from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

September 2010: hide your kids, hide your wife

From the Antoine Dodson video that swept the web

October 2010: queen of the phonies

A line from The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Inspired by our school librarian, who questioned my faith because I encouraged students to read this novel.

November 2010: it's so intense

From the Youtube sensation, "double rainbow"

December 2010: making spirits bright!

From "Jingle Bells"!

front door

In continuing (ever-so-slowly) the pictures of our house as it comes together... here is a terrible comparison of the front door. I accidentally left my camera at home in WNY after spending the weekend with my family, so you'll have to deal with this until I get it back.

The house itself is the same color as before (gray/blue). I'm just too impatient to wait until I have a better picture of the front door to do a real before/after shot.

More coming... someday...

Also... haven't been doing such a great job keeping track of the "mastheads", so here goes. I think I left off in July... oops.

July 2010: Out wandering the world

Just a factual statement of my life in July.

August 2010: Do I dare disturb the universe?

From "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"... I'm so pensive.

September 2010: (Hide your kids, hide your wife)

From this amazing video (pt. 2 here).

October 2010: Queen of the Phonies

From Catcher in the Rye, naturally.

(Happy belated Banned Books Week!)