I'm looking for some new blogs to read on home renovation/design, gardening, crafts (sewing, weaving, knitting), and personal but not professional blogs. I'm looking for a few more good blogs to read on a variety of topics. I am looking for craft blogs, particularly sewing, weaving, and knitting; home renovation and design blogs; gardening blogs; public health blogs; and personal, small-time blogs not written for profit. Not really looking for food blogs as I already read several.
I'm specifically not interested in: anything political or news related; anything religious; pop culture; music or books; celebrity stuff; or fashion blogs. I'm not really looking for parenting blogs but don't mind the occasional kid mention (ie, a post about vacation with kids or craft made with kids = fine; post about how to feed kids = not what I'm looking for; bloggers that exploit their kids for content = ick definitely not).
To give a flavor of what I already like, I currently enjoy Smitten Kitchen, The Tipsy Baker, Red Wine & Applesauce, Orangette, Apartment Therapy, Manhattan Nest, the Wednesday Chef, The Purl Bee, Angry Chicken, Pleasant View Schoolhouse, Soule Mama, Tallgrass Prairie Studio. I loved Academichic, New FNP, Chez Zerby, and Sidewalk Ready when they posted. A few of my friends write personal blogs - I'd love more like that - blogs that are pretty random and that feel like you're just catching up with a friend (as long as they are generally positive - I don't want to read a cancer blog, for example). I'd be happy to read mefite blogs if you want to recommend yours!
This is my light reading/downtime stuff so I'm just looking for upbeat stuff to enjoy that doesn't leave me feeling depressed/sad/angry at the world/hopeless. A lot of the blogs I used to read seem to have stopped posting so I'm looking to fill in some holes.
I'm specifically not interested in: anything political or news related; anything religious; pop culture; music or books; celebrity stuff; or fashion blogs. I'm not really looking for parenting blogs but don't mind the occasional kid mention (ie, a post about vacation with kids or craft made with kids = fine; post about how to feed kids = not what I'm looking for; bloggers that exploit their kids for content = ick definitely not).
To give a flavor of what I already like, I currently enjoy Smitten Kitchen, The Tipsy Baker, Red Wine & Applesauce, Orangette, Apartment Therapy, Manhattan Nest, the Wednesday Chef, The Purl Bee, Angry Chicken, Pleasant View Schoolhouse, Soule Mama, Tallgrass Prairie Studio. I loved Academichic, New FNP, Chez Zerby, and Sidewalk Ready when they posted. A few of my friends write personal blogs - I'd love more like that - blogs that are pretty random and that feel like you're just catching up with a friend (as long as they are generally positive - I don't want to read a cancer blog, for example). I'd be happy to read mefite blogs if you want to recommend yours!
This is my light reading/downtime stuff so I'm just looking for upbeat stuff to enjoy that doesn't leave me feeling depressed/sad/angry at the world/hopeless. A lot of the blogs I used to read seem to have stopped posting so I'm looking to fill in some holes.