My New Blog Design + A Giveway!

Guys, I am SOOOOO excited about my new blog layout. 

I have had my blog for over 5 years and I have always used the same person to design it. 

It had been 2 years since I re-did my blog design, so I was WAY overdue for a re-vamp.

I have been wanting to change my blog layout for over a year. 

I had a vision that I wanted, I just didn't have the time or skills to design it or implement it.

I tried re-doing some things last week and I almost broke my blog.

I contacted the person who I usually use for my blog and the waitlist for a blog design was over 2 months!!!! I panicked. That was not going to work, I needed it sooner than that!

So, I decided to look around Etsy to see if there were any blog desingers on there that I liked.

Then, I saw Bella Lulu Ink's templates and fell in love!

Her prices were incredible and her turnaround time was 2 days! 

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Chelsea was so awesome to work with.
She is a stay at home mom with 3 young kids and she was so patient with all my emails I sent her and changes that I wanted to make. 

I realized I am totally high maintenance ! Ha! And, she didn't even bat an eye and my crazy :)

Since a bunch of things have changed on my layout, I thought I would point them out to you!

First up, the header & navigation bar!

I wanted a simple, clean, organized look.

On the pink navigation bar, you will find the following categories with quick links to them.

We have Home (which is just the home page for my blog), About Me, a link to my Etsy Shop, a link to all the Free Printables I have posted. When you click that, it will take you this page:

I spent all weekend creating this page and organizing it to make it more user friendly.

I organized all my printables into categories for you!

 The next link is Parties. Again, I spent time this weekend organizing this page into categories of parties that I have thrown. Again, this will make it more user friendly for you!

The next quick link on the navigation bar is probably my FAVORITE part of the new design.

It is my Recipe Box! This took forever, but I LOVE it. I organized every single recipe on my blog into categories. So, if you click on the icons on that page, it will take you to another page with a list of all those recipes in alphabetical order.

The final link on the Navigation bar is to my Rodan + Fields Website!

 Also on my blog, all the picture are pinnable now, so you can click on it to pin it to your Pinterest board. Again...making it user friendly!

 And, instead of photos in the header,  I wanted a cleaner look, with just words.

I have my new profile photo with our family and below it are social media icons:

  Ahhhhh.....it felt so good to organize all this!!!

I am telling you....the New Year makes me want to organize and clean stuff up (including my blog!)

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to Chelsea for the beautiful blog design. 

I am SO incredibly happy with it. 

You are a gem.

Chelsea is so awesome, she is giving away a blog design to one of you! 

She has tons of pre-made instant download blog templates that are gorgeous!

Chelsea's Etsy shop is Bella Lulu Ink:

 Shop {here} Facebook {here} 

Check out all the beautiful blog designs HERE!

One lucky winner will get a new blog design from her!

To enter, just use the Rafflecopter below!

Chelsea gets an A+++ with customer service, she sends you a You Tube video showing you how to install your new design and she responds to emails so quickly. It was the easiest process ever!

I am SO excited one of you will get a new blog design!

Speaking of giveaways, my friend Sheaffer is also having a giveaway on her blog today! 

A $100 shop credit to Goodnight Macaroon. Check it out {here}

 

Thanks again, Chelsea for your beautiful work and for a blog design that I absolutely love.

 My goal was to create a more user friendly & organized design and I think we nailed it.

Thank you to all of you for your patience last week when it was Under Construction....I think it was worth it :)

So, sit back, click around & get to know the new layout.

Hope you guys love it also!!

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