Introducing our Design Team…

by Susan

Okay, you’ve seen our new look… and now it’s time to meet the designers behind it.

Drum roll please…

We are thrilled to introduce Ruby & Roja Design (formerly Be Design).

Ruby & Roja Design (formerly Be Design) is a little design company started up by designers Christy Mensi (Real Life Adventures) and Beth Fletcher (I Should Be Folding Laundry).

Christy and Beth are work at home moms with two little children each. In their spare time, which means late at night and in the wee hours of the morning, Beth and Christy work with clients to achieve a design that fits the clients hopes and needs. Both designers believe in 100% client satisfaction, so while their wait time is long, so is their list of happy customers. Ruby & Roja offers blog design packages for WordPress, Blogger and Typepad (plus or pro) and also offers website and logo design.

Although Christy lives in Texas and Beth is in Indiana, they consistently work together and share the same vision for Ruby & Roja – to create a company where service and style are top priorities.

Janice and I can sincerely say these two stand firmly behind their goal of 100% client satisfaction. I’d be scared to count the number of hours these two patient women spent on the phone with us.

Janice and I like to be VERY involved in the design process. (Yes, you might read that as we’re rather high maintenance clients. LOL) But, Beth and Christy were beyond patient with us. They worked with us for hours over the phone and took our ideas and polished them up to create our stunning new look.

I’d say when choosing a designer, one of the most important factors to consider is whether you can talk to your artist over the phone. When you are trying to convey what you want from your site design, I don’t think any number of emails can replace the value of a phone call. Beth and Christy understand that value and their business is entirely about you getting what you want.

These ladies have been working hard over the last couple of weeks creating our new “5 Minutes for Mom” site design, buttons and business cards.

But that’s not all…

Beth, Christy and their trusty WordPress Installer Heather, have also been busy working on a secret project for us. We are all scrambling to get finished and we’re hoping to unveil on Thursday.

So keep one eye on our RSS Feed. You SO don’t want to miss this…



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Susan is co-founder of 5 Minutes For Mom. Along with her twin sister Janice and their mother Joan, Susan also owns two online toy stores where they love to help other moms find the perfect gift like a Pedal Car or a Rocking Horse for their children to treasure forever. Susan has two sweet little girls and is constantly in awe of her luck in life.

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1 Monica July 8, 2008 at 7:06 am

excellent work, design team. I’m constantly amazed at the know-how of these mommy HTML geeks. In my heart I’m a designer – it’s fun like moving furniture around the living room – but lack the skill. It’s great we have moms to hire to do it for us.

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2 Jo-Lynne (Musings of a Housewife) July 8, 2008 at 7:28 am

It looks GREAT!

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3 Annie - Savor This Moment July 8, 2008 at 8:23 am

Love the new blog design! Tres chic, and very streamlined.

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4 Andrea July 8, 2008 at 8:50 am

I love the new look! I adore those mommy silhouettes!! You should make 5 Minutes for Mom T-shirts with those graphics! :)

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5 Lisa July 8, 2008 at 8:57 am

HI! I’m a friend of Christy’s and just HAD to pop over and see the design that she and Beth have been working on so diligently. I have two words to say – LOVE IT! And major kudos to the two of them for launching a business just a short two months ago and already being so successful at it.

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6 Kellyn July 8, 2008 at 9:31 am

I love it! Christy did my makeover, and was wonderful to work with!

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7 Kimberly Coleman July 8, 2008 at 10:04 am

I really like the header!

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8 Jennifer, Snapshot July 8, 2008 at 11:06 am

I agree that it looks great.

I wish that I could whip up dreamy looks like this.

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9 Adventures In Babywearing July 8, 2008 at 12:34 pm

Of course I am a huge fan!!

Steph

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10 Erica M July 8, 2008 at 2:00 pm

Love the new design! The ladies have done a wonderful job!!!

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11 Allison July 8, 2008 at 2:23 pm

The new design looks wonderful! I love the new header.

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12 Christy M. July 8, 2008 at 4:35 pm

Susan and Janice,
Thank you so much for the wonderful post about Ruby & Roja. It has been a pleasure working with you, honestly. We’ve gained so much wonderful experience and learned many valuable lessons along this journey.

I hope we have the opportunity to work with you much more in the future. After we get caught up on our sleep, of course ;)

Christy

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13 Deborah Armstrong July 8, 2008 at 5:35 pm

What a delightful site. I love what you guys have done. Keep up the great work!

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14 To Think Is To Create July 8, 2008 at 7:34 pm

It absolutely rocks, I adore it through and through!

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15 heather u July 8, 2008 at 7:54 pm

love the new look!

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16 Kisha July 8, 2008 at 9:49 pm

Thank you to the design team, it looks great.

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17 Katie July 8, 2008 at 10:54 pm

LOVE the new look! Very sleek and simple, yet elegant. Great job!

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18 Pamela Kramer July 8, 2008 at 11:27 pm

LOL – I thought I was in the wrong place!

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19 Elaine July 8, 2008 at 11:47 pm

The new looks is fabulous!! Excellent job Christy & Beth!!

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20 Stephanie July 9, 2008 at 1:11 am

I LOVE the new design…so clean and attractive and professional. But I do have one question: Is that first lady supposed to be pregnant because I have never seen a pregnant lady with such a defined and scarily skinny waistline! ;)

P.S. I can’t wait for the “big reveal” on Thursday. I love surprises!

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21 christieo July 9, 2008 at 7:55 am

i REALLY like it!! it’s very simple yet very chic. very nice!!

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22 Susanne July 9, 2008 at 9:32 am

I love your new design girls. So much more “clean” and easy on the eyes. And the header is totally perfect! Congrats!

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23 Revka of RS Designs July 9, 2008 at 11:06 am

Great job by your designers! I love the clean look and the fact that it loads much faster for me than your previous design did. I often ended up clicking away before the page I wanted to view finally loaded. I don’t think that will be happening any more.

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24 Storm July 9, 2008 at 1:41 pm

Kudos to the design team.

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25 melody is slurping life July 9, 2008 at 3:23 pm

Love the look! Fabulous job, design team.

And I am SO excited about the upcoming reveals.

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26 crookedeyebrow July 9, 2008 at 8:09 pm

Great job ruby & roja. It’s such and updated, modern design for all the wonderful moms out there.

Love it.

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