Personally I wouldn't have tried to do this with just one image as that makes everything a bit rigid.

But you can work with this by adding some padding-left (15px) to your #categoriesContent styling at the beginning of your stylesheet.

You could also close up that gap in the middle by giving adding something like #categoriesContent br {line-height: 0.5em}

This would pull the text away from the bottom of the box and give you some leeway to push it away from the top with some padding-top on #categoriesContent.