Our New Look

We're so thrilled to share our new look with you! Here's a rundown of all the new features...

At the very top of the site you'll see links to Everyday Elsie + Everyday Emma. These are our new personal blogs. Emma formerly had a blog called Food Coma, which she has moved to this new space. My new blog will be a photo journal of my personal life. We've had lots of talks for the past six months about our desires to share both informative articles and just-for-fun content. This is our solution and we're so excited about it! These blogs will be a part of the A Beautiful Mess network, since they are all linked together, but they have seperate feeds. We are really looking forward to sharing more everyday life over there and we hope you enjoy them!

The colorful category tabs under our banner will take you to our archive galleries. If you click on each one you'll see our favorite projects organized there. We blog often so this is one way to help you find your favorite past articles at a glance, or discover things you missed!

Next you'll see a project slide show. You can click the arrows and scroll through our favorite articles from the past week or two. This is a new way for us to highlight our favorite content.

The photos are larger (yay!) and the sidebars are more simple. We spend so much of our efforts on our photography, that it only made sense to choose a design that highlights it. We hope that you find the new site fresh and easy to navigate.

One last major update... Emma and I are now officially partners! I invited her to become a co-author in January and I have to say, it's one of the best choices I've ever made. She's a wonderful partner and she is incredibly passionate about making this site an inspiring place. We have big plans for this site... It's going to be a wonderful year!

Thanks so much for your kind words about the new look! We are really thankful for your support and we look forward to sharing this next season with you. Love, Elsie

ps. A huge thank you to Ryan Strong, who collaborated with me on this design. If you have any questions about the new site design, let us know!

Comments

beautiful! I love it!
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Posted by: Tina @ Tinacious Me | June 28, 2012 at 02:47 PM

The site looks gorgeous! Great job, ladies! :)

Posted by: Christi | June 28, 2012 at 02:49 PM

Congratulations girls!!

xoxo
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Posted by: Natasha | June 28, 2012 at 02:49 PM

This is such a clean and fresh look...very different to your last but I like it just as much :) I wish I could make my blog look as pretty as this! Did you do all the changes yourself?

Posted by: Hannah | June 28, 2012 at 02:50 PM

I love it! Congratulations on your partnership and everything else. Thanks for the daily inspiration. :)

Posted by: urban wife | June 28, 2012 at 02:53 PM

Hannah, I didn't do the changes myself. I worked with Ryan Strong (linked above) on the design. He helped me take our style and simplify it into a cleaner look. We also had a programmer to do all the code. :)
Glad you like it, thanks so much!

Posted by: elsie | June 28, 2012 at 02:53 PM

I love it! It looks fantastic!

Posted by: anne | June 28, 2012 at 02:54 PM

i adore the colors and design..sweet and simple!

Posted by: Krystle | June 28, 2012 at 02:54 PM

I LOVE the new look it super user friendly and so cute!
Great job ladies.

Posted by: Margherita | June 28, 2012 at 02:54 PM

The new design looks wonderful! I think it's an even better version of what it has been until now. I'm so excited for the bigger pictures and your new personal blogs - I predict that infinitely more inspiration is bound to come our way from you, and I can't wait! I've already spent too much time reading through Everyday Elsie & Everyday Emma, and I can't get enough :)

Last but not least, I have to say congratulations on all your accomplishments! Your hard work and resulting opportunities are a great example and motivator for me (and I'm sure many others as well!). Happy Thursday! :D

Posted by: Ana | June 28, 2012 at 02:56 PM

Congratulations!!! look fantastic!

Posted by: Mariela | June 28, 2012 at 02:56 PM

I love the simple yet colorful new look!! Very fun!!

Posted by: Kat | June 28, 2012 at 02:57 PM

I love this new design! <3 xo

Posted by: rhea | June 28, 2012 at 02:58 PM

I did like the old layout, but I can really see the merits to this one as well! I like the idea of linking blogs together. I own several websites (author blog, art blog, fashion blog) and could benefit from having them all under one space (without them actually BEING under one space!).

Posted by: Kat | June 28, 2012 at 02:58 PM

Will there be a mobile version for your blog? :)

Posted by: Kat | June 28, 2012 at 02:59 PM

I love it, you both did a great job!

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Posted by: Eva | June 28, 2012 at 03:01 PM

I love how simple this is. SO much easier to see your posts rather than added pics and clicks.
Nicely done ladies!
Trish
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Posted by: Trish | June 28, 2012 at 03:01 PM

I love love love love this new look!

Posted by: Betsy | June 28, 2012 at 03:04 PM

It is so beautiful and so you two! So excited going forward http://starthinker-silverbarter.blogspot.ca/

Posted by: Silver | June 28, 2012 at 03:05 PM