I recently went to dinner at a friends’ (L & G) house. Now, these are friends I’ve known all my life and their wives, so seeing them is like seeing family. There is a comfort and excitement in spending time with them, which makes me want to see them when I do occasionally make it back to the U.S. for a visit. Well, I had not yet been to L & G’s new house. I’ve seen the Facebook updates on its renovation and sprucing up, but nothing prepared me for the charming domicile they have created. They retained the original architecture while addressing modern lifestyle needs. Just lovely. Of course, when seeing the space, I asked G if she reads Young House Love, to which she enthusiastically responded ‘Yes!’ Then a conversation started about what other blogs we each read. It is delightful that reading has once again taken a focus in conversation, even if it is blogs, it is still informative and entertaining. Of course, science, books, current affairs, and all sorts of other topics were discussed that evening, but her asking me what other blogs I read really got me thinking so I wanted to share this list with you.
The list of blogs is divided by topic. Most, I only read once a month or a couple times a year when I am curled up in bed with a cold and can’t focus on a knitting project or actual book. Those in bold are ones I read on a daily or weekly basis. Oh, and the ones in italics are my blogs or blogs by friends or people I respect and know in the ‘real world’. Occasionally, blogs are listed in multiple categories because I couldn’t decide which is the dominant topic. I only wanted to spend a few minutes compiling this list so it is probably missing a few, so if you know I read your blog or if you have a fabulous blog, please tell me so I can add it here.
FOOD & COOKING
Adventures in Veg….
Artisan Food Journal
Bijou Kaleidoscope
Boho Kitchen
Bonnie the Baker
Brilliant Spread
Chocolate & Zucchini
Chronicles of a Curious Cook
Cooking Peas & Qs – My blog
Cooking with Quinn
Confessions of a Cookbook Queen
Cork Billy
Culinary Explorer
Culinary Travels
Cupcake Corner
Cupcakes by Katie
Donal Skehan
eat like a girl
Eating, Gardening & Living
The English can cook
Felixhirsch’s tour de table
Food Culture, West Cork
Food Blogs
Food Nuts
FoodPress
girlichef
GOOP | Make & GOOP’s list of Food Blogs
Harvard | Science & Cooking (podcasts)
House of Annie
I have a friend in cheeses
I Married An Irish Farmer
Irish Food Bloggers Association
James Whelan Butchers
Just Food Now
La Fille De La Ville
Local Gourmands
Local Lemons
Maison Celeste
Modernist Cuisine Blog
Moira Milis
My Orne Kitchen Diary
Mystery Lovers’ Kitchen
No Fear Entertaining
Paperwhite
Petitchef
Plain Chicken
QLI
Restaurants and Food in Cork
Seasaltwithfood
Sip.Snap.Savor
smitten kitchen
Steamy Kitchen Blog
Stuff I make, bake and love
Sustainable Tea Leaf
Suzi’s Green Kitchen (Ecogrl Cooks!!)
swEEts by e
Teen Baker
Try It Tuesday
UmNumNum Cork
What Katie Ate
A Year of Slow Cooking by Stephanie O’Dea
Your House Cooking
IRELAND
40 Shades of Life, formerly Slainte, Cork - My blog
An American in Ireland
Artisan Food Journal
Cork Billy
Cork Blogs
Cork Non-Fiction Writers Group
Croissant Craic
Dine & Wine Club Cork
Donal Cahalane
Donal Skehan
fly along by the fabulous Beata Jezek of Hedgehog Fibres
Food Culture, West Cork
I Married An Irish Farmer
Irish Food Bloggers Association
James Whelan Butchers
Info Ireland
A Jamaican-American Expat in Cork, Ireland by talented voice over professional Arlene Cooke
James Whelan Butchers
Lindsay’s Misadventures in THE WORLD
Munster Pubs Blog
RESTAURANTS AND FOOD IN CORK
Running in Cork, Ireland
Running in Munster, Ireland
Spirited Shannon
UmNumNum Cork
Wayfaring Stranger
TRAVEL
40 Shades of Life, formerly Slainte, Cork - My blog
France Journeys
GOOP – GO
Karen Burke’s Wanderlustful Contemplations
QLI Travel
HOME DECORATING & RENOVATION
Apartment 132
Bijou Kaleidoscope
Croissant Craic
Decor 8
Gorgeous Shiny Things
Interior House Decorate
Little Green Notebook by Pearl Street Interiors
Made by Girl
Paperwhite
poppytalk
Totally Together Reviews - consumer reviews on domestic products by Stephanie O’Dea
Young House Love
FASHION, SHOPPING & LIFESTYLE
Advanced Style
astridland
BOHO MARKET
Fashion For Nerds
Fashionable Politics
Freckled Past Blog - My blog
Lauren Moffatt | Blog
May December by Melissa C. Morris
modern renaissance
prepSTYLE
Totally Together Reviews - consumer reviews on domestic products by Stephanie O’Dea
What I Wore Today
workthatwardrobe
BUSINESS & SOCIAL MEDIA
Blue Ocean Strategy
Donal Cahalane
Ignite the Promise by Baldwin H. Tom
Lead on Purpose
Management Craft
Matt Mullenweg
Scot McKee | Blog
Seth Godin blog
Simplicity
Sinead Duffy’s Personal Development Blog
The Social Media Marketing Blog
SustainableWork
KNITTING, SEWING & CRAFTINESS
2knit or not 2knit?
200 Shawl Project
American Quilter in Ireland
Amy Butler Inspiration
Aran Brew
Art of Craft
Authentic Fiction
Baffin Bags
Boy Meets Purl
b r o o k l y n t w e e d
Checkout Girl
Cork’s Pink Auction 2010 - I co-write this blog
The Crafty Alley Shop Blog
crazy mom quilts
Cut Out + Keep | Blog
Design*Sponge Projects
Devon Fine Fibres
Diary of a Crafty Chica
Diary of a Sewing Fanatic
Dyed in the Wool – Crafting in North-West England
Elliefants Delights
Eoin Lyons
Etsy Ireland
Famille Summerbelle
fly along by the fabulously talented Beata Jezek of Hedgehog Fibres
Grace Violet
Grand Revival Designs
Green apples
Happy Stitches
Heather Bailey Blog
hoogli art
Hook’s Law
hot pads! and potholders – the swap
In The Loop – Skein Lane
Irish Knitting Blogs
Irish Knitting & Crochet
jane maynard design
Joel Dewberry
Katie Aaberg
knittyBlog
림’s 하우스 :: 네이버 블로그 (Lim’s Blog)
Lit’l Brown Bird’s Passion
LucyKate Crafts…
Maison Celeste
Make it and Mend it
Making Blog
Misplaced Texan
mosaic yarn shop
Multicrafty
My Patchwork
Knitting with Sandra Singh
Maru Designs
needled
Never Not Knitting
Organic Growing Pains
Peaceful Threads by Fiona
petit main sauvage
Phat Fiber Sample Box
Pretty Knitty Jewelry
poppytalk
Posie Gets Cozy
The Purly Gates
Purly Qs
the rainey sisters
retro mama
Ruffled Feathers
Saartje Knits
The Scrappy Knitter
Sevi Designs
She Knit Up That Ball
shescrafty handknits
smaller
SouleMama
Spring Stitches - My blog
Springwools Blog
State of Bliss
Sticks & String
Stuff I make, bake and love
tentenknits
TYWKIWDBI
waldorf mama
westknits — Stephen West
whip up
Woolly Way in Ireland
Yarn on the House
WRITING & GRAMMAR
Chica Writer
Cork Non-Fiction Writers Group
Daily Writing Practice
Diary of a Crafty Chica
Eats, Shoots, and Lays
Illusions of Intimacy
Maison Celeste
A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing
Romance Author Kemberlee
Telecommuter Talk
Wyrdsmiths
FAMILY & PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES
May December by Melissa C. Morris
Sturdymama’s Stories
ETC…
Being Gwenelle
Emily Evans Eerdmans
Everything Glorious
the paris apartment
Staying on course
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Evin
I love reading things on language. You might possibly enjoy one of my favorites, Separated By A Common Language. It’s by M. Lynne Murphy, the Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English at U of Sussex. She blogs about the differences between British English and American English. Lynne is also an American ex-pat living in the UK.
Not reading Croissant Craic? No biggie, but I hope you’ll check it out sometime.
Thanks for the list! I’m sure I’ll be checking out some of these that are new to me. If you want to bulk up you home decor blog list you should look at:
http://madebygirl.blogspot.com/
http://gorgeousshinythings.blogspot.com/
http://decor8blog.com/
also, not a blog, but a website that allows you to search rooms by category, and style called houzz.com
ooh! new stuff to read and follow! Thanks so much for sharing!!