Before and After: RandomOlive Header Design

Before and After: RandomOlive.com

I hope you’ve noticed that I’ve freshened up the site design with a new mobile-responsive theme and a new header design and site tagline.

Why the change?

When I started the blog last summer, I wanted to stick with a font-based design as a start. I picked Intro as my bold slab serif font and Bellota as a script font. I combined them together as a starter logo for my site. I still plan to use these fonts throughout my site and as headers on photos throughout the blog. I created the tagline “the random brightness of everyday life” mostly because I didn’t know exactly what the blog was going to be about. The only plan I had was that my posts would start off random as my interests flowed, and I’d figure it out as I gained more experience.

What’s different now?

My brush lettering has improved tons since last summer, so I felt a lot more confident using my own hand-drawn design as my header. I changed the tagline to “injecting brightness, color, and fun into your everyday”. It’s similar to the old tagline with the idea of incorporating brightness into your everyday, but this time, I started with the word “injecting”. This is important! I want to take an active role, and by using this verb in my tagline, I’m showing you that I’m doing my job to help you (the reader).

What’s the same?

The color scheme throughout the blog is the same. Navy, coral, teal. If you knew me in real life, you’d know these are my wardrobe staples. So of course, they’d be my website colors!

I hope you enjoyed reading about the thought process behind my design changes! Have you changed anything up on your sites lately?

Ultimate DIY Bundle is Back

I’m a big fan of learning new stuff and I’m usually buying some online class or eBook or another. If you’re also the type of person who loves learning, bundles (which combine lots of resources at a discounted price) might be a good way to save money on the classes you’d buy anyway.

The Ultimate DIY Bundle is a compendium of DIY eBooks and eCourses covering topics like general crafting, holiday crafting, sewing, photography, scrapbooking, art journaling, and home decor. This week’s bundle (which is only available for 48 hours) has 69 resources for $34.95. When you do the math, all it takes is about 5 classes/books that you’re interested in to make the whole thing worth it. Plus, you’ll have a stash of other books on your virtual bookshelf when you’re itching to learn something new.

This bundle was offered once before (in January), and I totally missed out on it. Ugh. I looked at it, tried to see if there were classes in there I wanted, and then I forgot about it. Until the deadline passed and I was out of luck. This time, it’s back for an even shorter amount of time! Geez. The Ultimate DIY Bundle will only be on sale for 2 days – from 9am EST on Monday, March 31 until 9am EST on Wednesday, April 1.

So for me personally, what material am I most interested in learning?

Those are just the books and stuff that appealed the most to me (and the original prices definitely add up to more than the cost of the bundle). There’s tons more books too! So you should check out the full index of included resources here.

Disclosure: I have included affiliate links in this post. Read the fine print about this bundle and read the answers to frequently asked questions about the bundle.

Shop Update: Inspirational Sayings

New item in the shop this week!

Sometimes you need a colorful kick in the pants to get you going in your day. These simple but inspiring mantras will boost your mood and brighten your day (and space).

Printable files save you money on shipping and the white backgrounds save your printer ink. I’d recommend printing on cardstock for the best effect.

Both JPEG and PDF files are included and can be printed up to 8×10 inches at best resolution. You can also resize down to incorporate into your art journals or scrapbooks.

Check them out by clicking the image below.

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Shop Update: Monogram Prints

New item in the shop this week! Brush scripted monograms in a colorful splash of paint. Check them out by clicking the image below.

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Be Your Self Digital Print Set Singles

Prints from my Be Your Self series are now available as digital versions for each design by itself. You can click each image below to purchase the individual digital print, in all digital formats. Or, you can head to the shop page to find out how to buy the entire collection.

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Additional products are planned for this series. Sign up for the mailing list to find out when new products are available.


I’d love to see what you’re doing with these prints and you can share your great ideas with others too! Tag me on instagram @randomolive and use the hashtag #randomoliveletters.

Be Your Self Mugs

I’m super excited to let you know that I’ve expanded the Be Your Self Series to include physical products. Now in the shop are mugs that you can buy to remind yourself to be totally awesome while you’re having your cup of coffee or tea in the morning. Or use them as pen cups in your office to always keep these affirmations in mind.

These would also make awesome holiday gifts.

Click on each picture below to get the link to purchase.

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Additional products are planned for this series. Sign up for the mailing list to find out when new products are available.


I’d love to see what you’re doing with these prints and you can share your great ideas with others too! Tag me on instagram @randomolive and use the hashtag #randomoliveletters.

Be Your Self Print Series is Here

I am super excited to launch this print series that I’ve been working on! I really believe that everyone should be exactly as they are, with whatever unique traits that you have. Own it. Live it. Remind yourself of your own awesomeness.

Information duplicated from the shop page below.


Sometimes, I need to remind myself that it’s totally ok to be exactly who I am. There are different facets of my personality that combine together that make me a totally unique Olivia.

You all probably have your own qualities that you love and want to remind yourself of often.

Being yourself is essential for being the happiest you can be. And that means being all of the qualities that really make you shine.

These “Be Your _____ Self” affirmations give you a visual reminder of how awesome you are and can be.

Physical Prints

High-quality physical prints are available at the digital printshop at a variety of sizes that will fit in your home or office, or wherever you would benefit the most. [Click on each photo below to be taken directly to the printshop listing for that item]


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Digital Prints

Digital print packages are available right here. With the digital versions, prints are sized up to 8×10 inches. You can print the entire series and as many copies as you’d like for your personal use. Pieces from the digital package can be integrated in your art journal or Project Life pages. If you are interested in customizing the colors or overlaying brush art over your own photos and backgrounds, the complete kit (which includes transparent PNG files) is recommended.

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Click to Purchase the Complete Digital Kit

Be Your Self Print Series - www.randomolive.com
Click to Purchase the PDF+JPEG version

Additional products are planned for this series. Sign up for the mailing list to find out when new products are available.


I’d love to see what you’re doing with these prints and you can share your great ideas with others too! Tag me on instagram @randomolive and use the hashtag #randomoliveletters.

Don’t see a characteristic that you love and want to remember? Send me an email at olive@randomolive.com and it might appear in the next volume of prints!

Hello (my re-introduction to blogging)

Welcome to Random Olive | randomolive.com

Once upon a time, back when I was in junior high and high school, I used to make websites. This was back in the early days of dial-up modems, geocities, and the original tripod websites. I even used Blogger when it first came out (before it was owned by Google).

I left the blog/web world sometime in 2004. I was in college at the time, in a professional program, with what I thought were better things to do outside of my computer room. I was (and still am) very concerned with privacy and anonymity and keeping my web life separate from my work life. So, I stayed out of the Google-able atmosphere.

Now I’ve decided to jump back into the blogging world, after a ten-year hiatus. Even though I was once an early-adopter, now I feel like I’m a bandwagoner. In the last ten years, we’ve seen blogging explode as a potential full-fledged career, rather than just a side hobby. We’ve got every genre under the sun: cooking and recipes, makeup and beauty, crafting, home decor, finance, arts and media, lifestyle, even blogs about how to blog.

I don’t know yet what this blog will be. I think it will be a mix of the random things that interest me (duh). I don’t have a five-year plan. I don’t have a predestined niche. I’m just going to write and share. And hopefully, someone, somewhere, will get something out of it.

Who’s Olive?



Hi, I'm Olivia, aka Olive. I'm always trying out random crafts and things... so this blog shows the evolution of all the stuff I'm interested in.

Hobby Timeline:
2014-2015: Photography, digital scrapbooking
2015-2017: Brush lettering
2018-2021: Crochet
2021-present: Romance book reading

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