Mrs. Mecomber’s Scrapbook

Ya gotta love the name: Sportsmamma: Living in the Land of Testosterone. I really like the template design, although it needs a little cleaning up here and there. Those fresh colors and the vivid blog header are what catch my eye first thing. The background is striped with baseball uniform stripes, very cute! The design is an Everyday Design, done by Jules. I’m familiar with her fresh designs and admire her work.

The header is cocked too far to the left, however. That large block of white space at the right makes the blog look a little messy. Secondly, as much as I love the Georgia font, it doesn’t match here. Perhaps a Trebuchet or something more streamlined would work. (I do wish all computers had more than the basic Arial/Sans Serif/Georgia/Trebuchet/Times New Roman. They are getting very, very old. Would someone please program some better fonts?)

I love the colors. The blue- which would look too “country” elsewhere, is a nice feminine touch amongst all those baseball stripes and talk of sports. I love the scripture box widget, too. The blog is not too cluttered with buttons and widgets (I am guilty of that alll the time on my blogs), but they could use some organizing. Maybe set them so that everything is centered, or aligned to the left. It would help maintain that streamlined look that the stripes and fresh-looking header encourage.

I like the blog content. Sportsmomma writes in a fresh, jaunty style which lends a friendly flair. I take it from the content that she is a Christian (me too!). I was merrily scrolling down the posts, enjoying the narrative and seeing all the neat things in the sidebars; therefore, it was very disconcerting to see an album cover with a woman unzipping/zipping her jeans (for that Skinny-songs CD). It is a little unseemly for this proper old lady, and unseemly for a Christian music album in general. I won’t start harping on how worldly the Christian music industry is, but the picture was a surprise.

Sportsmomma’s posts have lots of little pictures, and the writing is very entertaining. I’d like to know more about her boys and her crazy life of baseball and other boy-type stuff.

Love the graphic signature! I have one, too! It adds a lot of class to this blog, and keeps the theme of a fresh, fun site– kinda like a testosterone-filled home.

Overall, the blog is great fun, and the writing is very breezy. Sportsmomma makes you feel right at home when you visit. This is a blog to visit often; I’m sure the refreshments will always be plentiful and the conversation entertaining here.