Welcome to the new look of Peanut Butter Fingers! I am so excited about this redesign and though it’s still not 100 percent done, I am thrilled to unveil the new look to you guys today!
I began blogging in September 2009 and throughout the past four years, Peanut Butter Fingers has changed design only a small handful of times.
When I first started blogging, I set up my site using a free WordPress template and a banner I designed myself in Microsoft Paint. (You can see my tips for setting up your own blog in this post: How to Start a Blog, Blog Focus, Self Hosting and More.)
Does anyone out there remember the peanut butter cookie banner!?
Or the creamy peanut butter banner?
Clearly I needed some serious help in the blog design department, but I waited to reach out to a real designer until I was pretty sure that this whole blogging thing might stick.
I fell in love with blogging pretty fast, but still didn’t feel comfortable investing money into a redesign until 2010 when the design you’ve seen on PBF for the past three years was created by Emily White (formerly known as The Blog Fairy).
I loved this look when it was first installed and thought it captured the fun-loving and lighthearted nature of this blog.
Fast forward a few years and I began to feel a little restless and wanted a change. I wanted a cleaner look with more white space, easy navigation, a fun yet slightly more sophisticated font and social media icons that matched.
I owe the BIGGEST thank you to Kendra of Swoon Creative who is the designer behind the new look of Peanut Butter Fingers.
Over the past few months, Kendra and I worked together to create the look you see today. I gave her a lot of feedback, sent her examples of colors, fonts and websites I love and she used her incredible talent and creativity to create the new design.
I have so many fabulous things to say about Kendra but her initiative is something I must highlight. She came up with so many fun new ideas and surprised me more than a few times with various features. She took my feedback to heart, installed the design for me tonight (and didn’t bat an eye as we exchanged emails for hours!) and deserves more praise than I can send her way. I cannot recommend her services enough!
I hope you guys love the new look of Peanut Butter Fingers as much as I do. Again, it’s not entirely finished, as I have a few fun features I hope to install, but I am excited for this change.
Thank you, as always, for joining me on this journey!
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So pretty! Love it!
Looks incredible!!!
and it looks magnificent! i love the clean feeling to it 🙂
Thank you so much, Karla! A cleaner look was one of my main goals with the redesign, so I appreciate this comment a lot!
I think it looks great!
Looks great!
I love it! So classy & pretty!
the new site looks fantastic! I love it!
Loving the new look 🙂 Can’t wait to see the finished product.
I liked the look before but I like this even better. Good luck completing the changeover!
Obsessed with the new design! I will have to remember her for when I go to redesign mine!
It looks great! Although, your ads aren’t showing up for me (I just see big x’s). I’m thinking they are just blocked at work.
I love the new layout. I love the changes that you have made over the years. Love your blog.
I love it. I just began blogging last month, so I hope to do the same to mine soon. I’m like you, I want to wait a while to make sure I’ll stick to blogging before investing my money.
This looks great though, the look most definitely matches the quality of your blog now. Looking forward to see what else you’ll add to it!
Love it! So fresh and clean feeling! 🙂
Looks great!! A new look is always so refreshing!
I absolutely love it! Your blog has already been an inspiration to me, and it just is even more so now. 🙂
I love your redesign!! So cute!
Very nice! Definitely a more streamlined, professional look…but still encompasses the personality of your blog as well. I love it, Julie!
Love the new look!! So professional looking & love all of the clean white space! 🙂
it looks soooo pretty and clean!
What a big surprise! Congrats on your blog redesign! Looked great before…looks even better now!
Congrats on the new look!!
Very nice! I think a lot of people are going with a cleaner look now. I updated mine about a month ago to all white as well with a black and white banner that I made. I like it a lot more!
I love the new blog Julie!! It looks so good and fresh!! 🙂
The new look is perfect! So clean and so you!! You’ve come a long way since you started, it’s fun to look back at your old designs!
Love it!!! the font is awesome! (is it weird that that’s one of the biggest things I notice on a blog? haha)
Great new look! I love blogs with a minimal modern look to it 🙂
LOVE the new look!
Beautiful design! It looks so fresh! 🙂
It looks great!
I love it! More white space seems to be the thing these days!
Looks amazing! I’m a huge fan of the clean, white designs!!
Looks awesome, Julie!
Beautiful! I love it!
It’s beautiful! I love how clean and simple it is, yet it still shows your personality. Your designer did a great job!
Wow it looks awesome! So clean – i love that!
Love the new look! 🙂
Love it! The only one I remember was the one you just changed from because I hadn’t discovered your blog yet! SO glad I did though!
The new design looks great. And, because I haven’t seen anyone else comment on it yet, I have to say I LOVE the new fonts!! Both the header font and the font for titles/subheads on the site are awesome (and they really add to the clean look I think you were going for).
Congrats on the facelift 🙂
Julie, I love it!! Everything looks awesome 🙂
I love it! I’ve been looking for a cleaner design, too, so this is good inspiration!
Wow, your new blog design looks so professional! I like the font as well. As a newish blogger I have found your blog series to be very helpful.
Looks great!
Love this! I Love clean and simple looking blogs- – easier to read and navigate!
So exciting! The design looks very neat and streamlined — hats off to Kendra!
LOOOOOVE it! fresh and crisp<3
LOVE the new look!!!!!
Love it! So much more modern 🙂
Lovvve!
I love the new heading! 🙂