Blog Makeover: The Beth Next Door

I had a blast working on The Beth Next Door’s blog makeover and today I’m sharing all of the lovely details.

Hey there! I’ve been over here working on blog makeovers like a busy bee the past couple of weeks!

I offered some blogger friends my services for free in exchange for reviews and I had a completely overwhelming response! I mean free is good, but they clearly had at least a LITTLE faith in me and my skillz to let me do some serious surgery on their passion projects.

Update: I’ve now moved on from Free to 75% off to 50% off now. Head over and fill out a form if you want to be in phase 3 of the beta testing! After that it’s 25% off and then full price!//

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working on all of the projects thus far, but I really wanted to share this particular one with you because it just came together magically.

Is that weird? To describe a blog makeover project as magical?

Welp, that’s how I’m describing it.

Blog Makeover: The Beth Next Door

This doesn’t happen every time, but from Beth’s thorough description of herself and her blog, I had a pretty clear picture of who she was and what she was looking for which really helped how I decided to do her blog makeover.

Details to take into account:

1. She’s a working mom.
2. She’s a wannabe fashionista (I SO relate).
3. She’s a lover of Minnesota and all local things.
4. She loves pink.
5. She was looking for something clean and bright.

After showing her some font examples, it all came together pretty quickly. I ended up creating about 15 examples over the course of a couple of e-mails because I was having so much fun playing around with the different elements we could add.

Beth is a working mother, a wannabe fashionista (her words!) and a Minnesota lover (I actually met her in Minnesota briefly when I lived there for a couple of years), and a wonderful writer, so there really were a ton of ways we could have gone.

The funny thing was that she really liked all of them (that alone was incredibly validating).

From a more professional image of a coffee cup and a keyboard, to a fun one with some bright fashion details (including some adorable bright yellow shoes) to a more simple one with a bold blue door (get it..girl next DOOR. I crack myself up.).

A lightbulb went off for both of us when I found a bright pink arrow AND a cute mom-next-door looking woman in some jeans with a bright pink purse. Boom.

Then all I had to do was install the Fun Theme, switch on the glitter mode (seriously, there is a way to toggle the Fun Theme so there are gold and pink details) and then I made everything pink and purple and awesome.

I was seriously dancing around that night telling my fiance how much FUN I had (ha. punny.) with this blog makeover. Not only did I have fun, but Beth really loves the end result. I may have mentioned how I cried a little bit on Instagram when I read her review she did on her blog.

>>Check out Beth’s full review here.<<

This was a very validating experience for me and I can’t explain how excited I am to keep helping other bloggers make their blogs shine!

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Question for you:

Are you a fan of the fun and colorful blog looks or do you prefer something more sleek and simple?