An Eggcellent Glo-Up 🐣

Your sweet little Sparkle & Spice Kitchen just had a cuuuute little glo-up!

If you're new to this website - hello hello! You can read more by checking out the about section & then drool through the visuals & recipe journal.

If you're an oldie who's been here from the start or joined somewhere along the way - thank you for all your support and kind words. 💛 They keep me going.

This new look was long overdue and I am so excited by how well (and cute!) it turned out. If you're thinking there's some grand 'comeback' planned - I'm going to stop you right there.

This is probably just a small baby step in the grand scheme of things and I have no proper plan as to where I'm heading with this. Just a start that has got me excited enough to write this. *yay!*

So, what's the short term plan exactly? 🤨

Well, it's primarily getting this website and blog active. I put way too much effort into making it a few years back and I really feel like I'm ignoring my adorable (figurative) child.

Here's how it's going to go:

✏️ I will *try* to post small blogs - maybe weekly, maybe fortnightly

🍳 The blogs will be about, honestly, anything and everything food-wise

😯 Like - what did I cook or eat this week?

💭 Or a food memory that makes me all 🥺 / 🤤

👀 Some YouTube recos for sure

👂🏼 And also some good podcast recos (v excited about this)

All in all, I think this is going to be pretty fun. There may be (read: will be) long gaps, but I promise I will try to be as frequent as possible. 🤞🏼

So, that pretty much covers it. To kick off things here's a little glimpse behind the thought process for the new logo.

Sparkle & Spice 2.0

Firstly, a few moments of loving silence for the OG S&S logo (2014-2020).

You were a beauty, a start of something new and you served us well. 🌸

I will always remember you.

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With the new logo, I wanted it to be cute and quirky and very on-brand.

I also wanted it to have some subtle references & homage to its predecessor.

Knowing me, there are probably two things that are straight-up on-brand - eggs 🍳 and cookies 🍪.

Through the process of elimination, cookies got ruled out because it was tricky to have the name stand out on that particular background.

When you try to visualise an egg, a sunny side up is likely what materialises in your head - a bright yellow yolk & a cloud-like white around it.

Given my love for eggs, (I wrote two entire blogs on them. Click on the pictures above to check them out!) I knew I had to design something around it. Hence, the simple idea - why not just stick the name on the yolk and call it a logo.

Well, that was basically it. 😂

I picked a cute font (Nicklainey), followed by some fine-tuning to make it look quirky and finished it up with a 👑 to hint back to the original S&S logo.

Now, this left me with yellow becoming my new theme colour and I couldn't have picked a better one consciously.

Reasons for yellow feeling like the perfect pick:

1. Eggs. Golden eggs yolks. Duh!

2. My new found love for the colour ever since dodie yellow

3. It's just so warm and nice and feel-good 🥰

In the end, I was sitting there all heart-eyes at my computer screen, looking at my new creation and thinking this definitely feels like a good start.

So, here's to that and some fun stuff coming your way soon! 🥳