Hello friends! I’m really excited to share the details of a project I’ve been working on for the past several months! It’s a blog/shop/community called The Blog Market.

For a long time, I have been trying to figure out a way to incorporate more blog design tutorials into Earl Grey. While I posted a few here and there on this blog, it just felt a little too crowded. So I decided the best thing to do was to create a separate website solely focused on providing resources for bloggers and creative peeps. The Blog Market will include many HTML/CSS tutorials (starting from scratch), some Photoshop and Illustrator tips, inspiration for productive living, and design goodies.

Another neat part of the new website is that I hope to plant some seeds of community via forums! I don’t know about you, but I think running a one woman blog can get a little lonely.  I’ve been dreaming of creating some blog forums since my Earl Grey redesign earlier this year. It didn’t feel right for this space, but it feels so right for the new space. The forums will provide a way for us to ask business and design-y questions and of course, make friends and network.

So where is Earl Grey going? For now, it will stay where it is. It’s nice to have a space for DIYs, personal blog posts, and roundups. But my energy will definitely be more focused on The Blog Market (as it has been for a while now). I’m not sure that the whole “running two blogs” thing will be for me, but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see how it goes!

The Blog Market will be up and running on Monday, Nov 24th. I’ll share more details over the next week! Hope you enjoy what’s to come. :)