Blog I Like: A Collection a Day 2010

A Collection a Day is a pretty great blog, run by collector and illustrator Lisa Congdon. She makes bread tags look like art:It makes me feel slightly ashamed of my Hello Kitty collection.

Cool Site Award!

I was really excited when I saw the Google main page today - it's Jackson Pollock's birthday! 

What made me even happier was the very first link on the results page: jacksonpollock.org!  I found this site several years ago when I was in a Creative Arts class - it's basically the coolest time-waster ever.  The page is blank when it loads, but if you move your mouse around, black paint drips all over.  The paint changes color when you click your mouse.  

I wasted quite a bit of time on this website when I was working at the library.  It's been awhile since I've played around with it, so I'm glad Google decided to honor my favorite post-modern painter today!  

More to come, but for now . . .

I haven't written much (anything) this week, but I'm going to start up again today!

For now, I wanted to discuss my confusion/delight with the new web analytics feature on Etsy. I don't really understand most of the stats on Google Analytics, but I've sort of figured out a few vital things (page views, where traffic comes from, etc).

Anyway, I found out that I was featured on Your Heart Out, a cool design blog featuring Utah designers. It was way back in December, but it made sense because I sold the item featured to someone from Utah. So, thank you thank you thank you to Your Heart Out!

Even if you're not from Utah, you should check out Your Heart Out - it's a lovely blog with lots of fun items, ideas, and finds. I'm excited that I found it (even more excited that I was featured on it)!

Cool Blog Award!

So many style blogs feature pictures of unsmiling people commenting on their clothes.  I kind of want to ask them the question of 2008: Why so serious???

Advanced Style eludes this gray sense of seriousness.  It's a style blog with a purpose: teaching the young folks that confidence in style gets better with age.  

Following the conceit of the style blog, Advanced Style stops stylish people on the street and asks them about their look.  But they've broadened the age limit on style, featuring true gentlemen in hats and coats, glamorous ladies in black fur and plum-tinted specs , and classy couples that you want to adopt as grandparents.

Advanced Style began with admiration for "how awesome so many of New York's older men and women are styled."  Since August, it's expanded from New York and features examples of advanced style worldwide (Norway, Brazil, London, Tel Aviv, and Rome, to name a few!). 

I love the unique take on fashion offered at Advanced Style.  It's true aspirational style!

Cool Girl Award!

My very favorite style blog is the cherry blossom girl. It's written by a Parisian blogger/fashion school graduate named Alix who has the sweetest, girliest style in the world. Her photography is gorgeous, featuring some lovely places in Paris. Part of the reason I love this blog is because of the location - her lovely photos let me dream about wearing pretty dresses while I float about a sunny Parisian kitchen.

Her blog is arranged beautifully - she even has a specific page that catalogues her outfits by color and style! That may sound pretentious, but one of the great things about the cherry blossom girl is her sincerity - she genuinely loves getting dressed in the morning and wants to share the fun.

Many of Alix's entries center around a cool vintage find. When I read her entry about a pair of shoes she found, I felt bonded to her in some way because we each love our floral Doc Martens enough to take a picture of them.

Have a look at the cherry blossom girl - you might be inspired, too! :)