Newbie question about static pages

Currently my index.php file is of a typical nature — it has the wp loop, and, a side bar with category links, etc. I do not want this to be my main page, though. Instead, I want a static page to be the front page–it won’t have any blog posts. So I took the html page that I wanted to use, replaced some of elements with the specific wordpress ones such as bloginfo, blogdescription, stylesheet, etc, and I also declared the page a template. Then I went to add pages from the dasbboard, used the template, created a page called ‘frontpage’ with no content. Then from the dasbboard I went the readings setting and made this page the front page. My question is, how do I get the URL to access the blog option of my site? I.e. i have my static frontpage, which has a navbar, and I want to edit the static page so I have a link to the blog page. What is the url for that?