So people have recently started asking me to list my favorite blogs. Thing is, I’ve been finishing a book/writing magazine articles/editing someone else’s book/picking up baby poop off of the deep green thick-pile carpet because Viva was commando and decided it would be fun to drop the kids off at the park rather than the pool/focusing on getting to know my husband who I met a mere six months before I got pregnant/paying bills/answering an average of 60 e-mails per day/taking my 20-year-old cat to the vet twice a week/freaking out because I owe the IRS money I don’t have.

In other words, I haven’t been getting a daily dose of Dooce or much else—other than my guiltiest blogging pleasure PerezHilton—for a loooooong time.

So, I set out to find some new favorites and revisit some old ones and quickly found one hour turned into two and three and four as I blogscotched from one great rant or rave to the next.

Now when someone asks me for a few of my favorite blogs, I’ll point them to these for starters:

StyleHive really is abuzz with all of the fashionable online happenings. I couldn’t help but linger in the Hot Designer section to ogle ceramics by Zeita Scott. Check ‘em:

CoolMomPicks drew me in with chatter about regretful children’s-room art purchases and tasteful alternatives. It also reminded me about Etsy.com, the fabulous handmade goods co-op site where I bought a lot of the work hanging in my daughter’s room. But it really wooed me with these booties, which are so sweet I am trying to think of someone to buy them for.

Absolutelybeautifulthings lives up to its name by showcasing items most of us can only dream about, such as this FIERCE ride.

Still, the Aussie designer behind the blog does give mere mortals glimmers of attainable greatness with the genius idea of using wallpaper to create a fashionable headboard.

Image courtesy of Living Etc. and Marie Claire Maison

How cute is that!?

Apartment Therapy always has inspiring ideas and products that don’t require spending my daughter’s college fund.

IkeaHacker shows how to trick out Ikea furniture. It me feel like I can style out my house and not worry if my daughter clandestinely goes Crayon crazy on the TV console–and that is a very cool thing.

Alrighty then. Time to force feed my cat chicken baby food and Pedialyte and hit the sack. More coming soon to a GlamNest near you.

Erika Lenkert

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