Tuesday, March 03, 2009

In need of inspiration

Since two of my favorite magazines (Domino! Cottage Living!) have lost the battle with the fledgling economy and shut down their presses, I'm in need of new sources of inspiration. Fortunately, there are a lot of great blogs and sites out there. Here are a few of my favorites.  (I've tried to upload lots of beautiful pictures from these sites but blogger is being difficult.)



Domestic Construction -- Doing creative things with mixed media. Love this hanging teacup fixture pictured above.

Decor8 -- Great blog with unique ideas and finds and offers a very helpful recurring entry "Etsy Take Five Tuesdays" where she highlights interesting and beautifully made crafts on Etsy (so helpful since there is so much to wade through there!)

Design*Sponge -- Lots of great ideas for home.

The Book Design Review -- Having sat in many, many meetings about the subtleties (or not-so-subtleties) of a book's cover design, I find this blog quite interesting.

Of course, I love Etsy as well. Always lots to see there. 

Do you have any suggestions?


Soundtrack: David Gray, "From Here You Can Almost See the Sea"


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Apartment Therapy is another good one. I like that book cover one.

Thesupermanns said...

Lori!!? i didnt know you had a blog....so excited here to read about yalls happenings. I cant believe Cottage Living is gone with this economy?!!! ....and i am totally in love with your sound track idea...i can hear each blog come alive through them. Love ya friend...

Courtney and Jason G. said...

Oh my gosh! Those are my favorite two magazines too! I posted the same thing on my blog- and I picked up Real Simple the last 2 months, as if to give it a trial run. Jury's still out.