I Need a Word(le) With You

Looking through the OhDeeDoh section of my Google Reader, I saw Wordle on a wall. And if you are a someone special in my life, you can expect that I will be making one of these and framing it for you for your next birthday or the major holiday that's between today and your next birthday. Well, maybe both. I can change it up. It's so so so so fun. Here's what I love:

1) You can enter your blog address and it'll pull the text from it! I love that, especially if you have a family blog. Or for crafterhours....

2) The fonts and color palettes are easy to switch up until you find something you like. And if you aren't sure what you'd like, you can hit "randomize" for as long as you like and be continually surprised by the results.

3) You can enter your own text as you like. So sweet for a kids' room. And guys are the hardest to make something for. (Celebrate the Boy is awesome! Celebrate the Man? That would be diiiiiiifficult. Not that we don't want to celebrate them. It's just so hard to do manly craftiness. Although this guy is a purveyor of such.) I think this could work. Awesome for a man cave or a man corner. With manly-er text, of course.

And while I'm on the subject of manliness opportunities, if you haven't already looked at dafont, you might like to. Lots of man-a-riffic options here. What I love about the site itself is that you can enter sample text at the top and then it shows you all of the fonts with your text, rather than sample text that requires a little too much imagination and/or noodling to figure out whether it'll work for you. There are soooo many fonts here that would make most excellent Etsy store banners. If you know someone who's working on an Etsy store. Like I do. (Her name is Adrianna. She's so at the door. I'm trying to push her in because she'll be awesome.) Here are some fun dafont examples:

Many dafont fonts are free for personal use. If you're going to use them for an Etsy banner or something you'll profit from, you'll need to look at the usage info for how to do that.