This Follow the Print is especially neat. This is our second post on Mommy Blogger Morgan Shanahan, the author behind The818 blog. She supplied us with some INCREDIBLE photos of her funky, hip nursery and her cute little fam. Hoot did a Simply Yours Custom Print for the Shanahan's and their little girl Delilah. Morgan did a custom color palette, and 15 unique letters. She then framed and matted her print, and as you can see, it looks fantastic.

Morgan also supplied us with a hilarious interview. Visit her blog, and you'll see why she has become such a popular Mommy Blogger. She has a fresh, honest and edgy approach to mommy-hood, one that leaves you wanting to know more. Check out her amazing nursery and read her open interview with Hoot below. Love KGB.

very cool shadow box created by a family member for baby Delilah. I love the wedding photos too!

We actually featured this same mobile in our Mobile R O U N D U P earlier this year!

The Simply Yours Shanahan Print!

The color palette looks so perfect with the room...product of good instructions and photos from Morgan before we got started.

Very cool flash cards from Bob's Your Uncle, which look great with the Simply Yours Print I might add!

Adorable baby Delilah!

The A D O R A B L E Shanahan Fam! (check out Morgan's blog section on "Things Scott Says," I laughed out loud:)

And without further ado, Morgan's answers to our oh-so-probing questions!

Baby's Name:  Delilah George

Baby's Birthday:  October 8th, 2009

Parents' Names:  Morgan and Scott

Location: Los Angeles, California (The Valley.)



Are you a full time blogger? Um...kind of? Technically I'm a full time screenwriter who blogs and consults on the side, but there are weeks when it certainly seems that I'm doing more blogging than screenwriting. It ebbs and flows. My readers have been very understanding about my sudden absences when work heats up. I just started blogging daily for an amazing site called cargoh.com, and I am loving it. I hope the site grows and grows so I can do more with them.



How did you get started blogging? Well...I've always been a bit rambly and an over-sharer. I started the blog in January of 2009 as a new years resolution, although I post-dated some posts I had been storing in iWeb on my computer for a few months. I made a new years resolution to write every day (which I failed miserably at) and when I discovered I was pregnant about six weeks later, I slowly started blogging about that experience.  Apparently being rambly and over-sharing goes over well in the pregnancy blogosphere, prorbably because anyone who has ever hosted another human in their uterus in the digital age has sat in front of google and let their fingertips wonder WHAT IN THE HELL IN HAPPENING TO ME?!   



What is it like posting so much of your life online? Scary. Rewarding. Weird. Often I freak out and want to delete it. I've been called out by friends for over sharing, and I've been called out by readers for under sharing, so it's a really hard balance to find. Pretty much everyone I know in real life knows about my blog - colleagues, family, friends, medical professionals, and it never ceases to amaze me how many of them seem to keep up regularly, which can be quite disconcerting when your Mom's friend from work feels comfortable asking you how your postpartum stitches are healing.  



What has been the most surprising thing about blogging, reactions? Comments? Attention? It shocked the hell out of me that people started to read. At first I couldn't figure out where they were coming from. When I wrote my first post, I sent an email to 10 friends saying "I started a blog, I'm kind of embarrassed, but apparently if no one reads it there's no incentive to post." After a couple of months strangers started to comment and email me, and that was really wonderful, to see my writing have an impact on it's small audience and getting immediate feedback, because in my professional life I can work on a project for literally years without ever having a pair of non-critical eyes read it. It's an incredible outlet.


How did you decide on the Delilah's name? It was a long process that sort of clicked into place when we found out she was a girl. We'd been floating around names and had narrowed it down to three boys, three girls. When we walked out of our big ultra sound we just didn't feel like she was a "Grace" and "Olive" didn't flow as well with George, which we knew we wanted as our middle name. We kept Delilah between us and close friends and family until she was born, just in case we didn't feel like it suited her. It definitely does.



Was it hard decorating her nursery? Did you and your husband agree on how to go about it? It was hard, but also one of my favorite memories of my pregnancy. It took us forever to find inspiration, but ultimately it came from figuring out our crib, which my husband made himself and the rest of the room sort of flowed from there. Now it's our favorite room in the house. We spend hours in there, and I really feel like we've created a fun space for Dee.
 
What made you want a Simply Yours Custom Hoot Print?  We had come to a complete and total nursery progress halt when Dee was born, just short of completion, with our bare lime walls. I am a huge typography fan so when I saw the Custom prints, I knew I had found the perfect thing to complete Dee's room. I was right. I love it.



Was it hard coming up with the words and phrases? It took us a while to find our groove, but once we figured out which direction to go, it was easy peasy.



What is your favorite word or phrase on the print? I think "U is for Across the Universe" which is the song we walked down the aisle to at our wedding.



What is the most surprising thing about being a new parent? The crazy psycho baby love. I would eat her up if there were more of her.