Creating new headers is one of the best parts about having a blog. I actually created this first header long before this blog existed, on the beach in Hilton Head in 2007 when I was there for the wedding of my friends, Sarah and Kris. For an entire morning, both on foot and on bike, I gathered the finest pink oleander flowers and leaves I could find, then spent the next few hours perfecting my leaf-and-flower font. You can see more shots of what it looked like on the beach. This Beach header ran from the start of the blog in February 2008 until just after Easter that same year.
As any regular reader of this blog will know, I sure do love my Peeps. These Chicks were kind enough to hold a set of stickers I purchased at Staples (you can find some pretty surprising stuff in the signage aisle). I had to slit the marshmallow fluff with an X-acto knife to get the stickers to stay in there (sorry, Chicks), and then halfway through the process I realized I was one ‘B’ short, and had to retrofit the second one using a sliced-up ‘R’. The Peeps header ran from May 2008 until September 2008.
2008 saw the Metro header, which is cut from the award-winning but now-extinct Day Passes they used to give out on Los Angeles buses. I first wrote about these in a Fast Company story about transit in LA. This was actually photographed on a sidewalk in Williamsburg during my summer in New York while I was working on the City Walks Architecture walking tours book.
In summer 2009, I finally made a new header, and this one is more of a permanent installation that I think we can have some fun with. I painted three stones with the letters and then put them in my garden, surrounded with a good sampling of succulents gathered from elsewhere in the garden (many of these have come to me from friend’s gardens, public landscaping and leaves I took without permission from people’s houses in the hills during walks). We’ll see how it grows over the next few months!
