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Saturday Art Saves: Beautiful Inspiring Blogs

Photo Source Notes from Halfland

Every Saturday I focus on a different artist that I admire. From potters to painters, chefs to collectors, seamstress to songwriters, lifestyle to lovers… anyone who set the paintbrush, pastry brush, hands and heart on fire to create.

Those who inspire art to flow where it may…. Beautiful blogs who take and produce their own photos, ideas and inspiration who share gracefully with others.

 

Photo Source Halfland

Notes From Halfland is a wonderful blog by my friend Shelley, who writes about her art as she creates handmade frame by frame folklore films.

Delightful is in the details.

Photo Source Day Book

The Day Book blog follows the day to day moments of bringing up baby. Beautiful, wholesome, lovely… The photos alone will make you sigh.

 

Photo Source Cannelle et Vanille

Beautiful blog Cannelle et Vanille by Aran Goyoaga is full of recipes, plus

Aran is a food stylist & photographer which makes you want to lick the screen.

Cannelle is Cinnamon in French.

 

 Photo Source Priscilla et al

Beautiful Blog Priscilla Mae et al full of inspiration and ideas, introducing by links to other interesting blogs and ideas. Priscilla also is a painter finding her inspiration often in Paris.

 

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Photo Source Frosted Gardner 

The Frosted Gardner is a blog dedicated to restoring and repurposing old furniture. Step by step, good ideas for taking the ordinary and transforming them into useful and delightful pieces.

 

Photo Source Rocker Baby Nation

Rocker Baby Nation, a sewing blog dedicated to darling designs and sewing projects for children. Makes me want to have another baby just to dress 🙂

 

 

Photo Source Life Made Lovely

Beautiful blog Life Made Lovely is a clever and inventive blog about how to arrange collections and gather ideas for the home. 

 

 Photo Source Our Vintage Home Love

Our Vintage Home Love a beautiful blog about the love for vintage design. Full of ideas for your home shown in detail and with care.

 

 Photo Source The Paper Mama

The Paper Mama is a blog you cannot pull yourself away from. Darling simple ideas, great recipes, fun, inspiring photos too.

 

Photo Source With Style and Grace 

Homegrown love and recipes from With Style and Grace. Just lovely. 

 

Please Share your favorite blogs?

Comments

11 responses to “Saturday Art Saves: Beautiful Inspiring Blogs”

  1. Kathie B

    Wow, that school-desk from “The Frosted Gardner” reminds me of the old ones we had in junior high. They dated back to pre-WW II, so had inkwells in the holes so students could fill their fountain pens! Reportedly it was not unknown for a mean boy to bully the girl seated immediately ahead of him in the row by dipping the ends of her pigtails into the ink. Thank goodness for ballpoint pens!

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  2. Marilyn

    What fun blogs. I especially liked The Day Book and sent the link to my daughter. Thanks!

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  3. christy

    WHY DONT YOU COME VISIT??
    _______
    Hi Christy
    I wish you lived closer!!! I would LOVE to come visit you!!

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  4. Diogenes

    My favorite blogs are mostly interior design blogs, but here goes:
    An Aesthete’s Lament, Greige Interior Design Ideas, the Corinthian Column Blog, Devoted Classicist, the Neo Lifestyle Blog, The Adventures of Tartanscot (a SF interior designer), Belle Vivir, and Hortibus House and Garden Tours (they go inside private estates and gardens all over Europe).
    Also The Country Seat, a blog about rescuing stately homes in England.

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  5. Sarah

    Love this post. Always looking for new blogs to enjoy. Oh Cory your blog is my favorite, hehe

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  6. Delphine

    Apart from naturally your blog, and some needlework blogs, my favourite is The Art of Doing Stuff. It is a Canadian blog and very funny and informative. Loved the Our Vintage Home Love blog. Thank you for sharing these with us.

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  7. martina

    Art of Doing Stuff has great tutorials and the writer has quite a good sense of humor. The Rickety Old Farmhouse is about a Scotsman, his wife the “Font” and their village in France-written like Peter Mayle. Just Something I Made is by Cathe Holden, lots of creative inspiration. Blind Pig and the Acorn is about a lady and her very musical family living in North Carolina. She shares great recipes and regional history. 66 Square Feet is by Marie Viljoen, who lives in NYC, has a rooftop garden (book is at publishers) with her husband and their cat DonEstorbo. Marie has been doing amazing blog entries since Sandy hit NYC.

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  8. Kathie B

    Except for yours, Corey, nearly all of other my favorite blogs in English are snarky and with a sociopolitical tilt — and thus likely to appeal to perhaps half of your readers, while offending the other half. Therefore, in the interests of peace and serenity I’ll refrain from listing them.

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  9. Kathie B

    P.S. For those who DO read Portuguese, here are some non-controversial blogs in the Azores:
    Brum vineyard and winery on Terceira:
    http://bagosdeuva.blogspot.com (lots of nice photos, even if you don’t know the language!)
    Poets/authors in the Azores:
    http://silvarosamaria.blogs.sapo.pt (Rosa Silva, Terceira)
    http://oespolio.blogspot.com (Daniel de Sá, São Miguel)
    http://vambertofreitas.wordpress.com (Vamberto Freitas, Terceira native living on São Miguel)

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  10. Kathie B

    One more blog — sponsored by the government of the Azores to promote the islands’ overseas communities [Comunidades], especially through their contemporary literature. About 1/3 of the postings are in English (including a handful of my translations), nearly all the rest in Portuguese. They post something new online nearly every day!
    http://www.rtp.pt/icmblogs/rtp/comunidades/index.php

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  11. Meg Mitchell

    Thank you Corey for the mention in your blog. As I was catching with reading my fav blogs (yours being one), I was both surprised and thrilled to see the link. I had notice a big bump in views and wondered why ….. now I know. Thanks again.
    Meg

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