My Favorite Blogs!

When I love something, that is usually all I: can, want, and, need to talk about with my friends {as some of them have reiterated to me over and over again} ;) So in the spirit of me sharing things I'm enjoying right now, I wanted to share out the blogs that I absolutely love! They are a part of my daily reading routine you know along with the serious stuff that I read on People.com and PerezHilton.com cough cough...ANYWAY I have followed these bloggers for a few years now and really enjoy getting a peek into their worlds. Check them out if you'd like!

Oh Joy! is graphic designer Joy Cho's blog and it's full of fashion, lifestyle, hosting, advice, and lots of cheery colors!

Love Taza / Rockstar Diaries is Naomi and Josh's blog that follow their life journey full of adorable pictures of their three kids and their adventures as entrepreneurs. 

Cupcakes and Cashmere puts Emily's creative mind on full display. Her blog is full of modern day beauty tips, great fashion editorials, and her journey as a new mom. Love her. 

Lauren Conrad's blog focuses on women. All of her content is about fashion, love, healthy, etc and she recently banned the word "skinny" on her page...#GirlBoss

DESIGNLOVEFEST is just that! Bri's life is so whimsical, romantic, and cheery. I just love reading her diy posts or just staring at her eclectic picture for hours. 

Apartment 34 helps me get my design fix. I love their apartment tours I always get so many ideas!

A Cup of Jo belongs to Joanna Goddard, her blog is full of honest, funny, sad, romantic, and inspiring moments from her life or women around the world. She also always has great recipes and travel posts. 

Apartment Therapy has the most eclectic and exquisite design and home tours. They  also featured my friend's nursery, so bonus points! 

Yes Please

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Hello all! I hope everyone is staying warm in these chilly temperatures! New York is cold but oh so lovely this time of year! Anyway what are you all reading these days? I finished Gone Girl a few weeks ago, so good, and picked up Amy Poehler's book Yes Please. And let me tell you her book is just wonderful. So full of life, wisdom, and wit.  

One of my favorite passages so far from her book is when she talks about the importance honesty in her life 

   I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean well-lighted place. So let's peek 

   behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and

   live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the

   honest way I want to live and love and write

And I couldn't agree more. Amy if you ever read this, you're just lovely....just lovely and fierce and honest. Get it girl.

What are you all reading nowadays? 

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*Amy Poehler's Smart Girls is #GirlBoss all the way.

*Love this. 

Currently Reading: Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing New Domesticity

 

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I randomly saw this book in a used bookstore in North Carolina and became really enamored with reading it as soon as possible. Emily Matchar writes that a "groundswell of women (and more than a few men) are choosing to embrace an unusual rebellion: domesticity. A generation of smart, highly educated young people are spending their time knitting, canning jam, baking cupcakes, gardening, and more (and blogging about it, of course), embracing the labor-intensive domestic tasks their mothers and grandmothers eagerly shrugged off. Some are even turning away from traditional careers and corporate culture for slower, more home-centric lifestyles that involve “urban homesteading,” homeschooling their kids, or starting Etsy businesses. They’re questioning whether regular jobs are truly fulfilling and whether it’s okay to turn away from the ambitions of their parents’ generation.

How did this happen? And what does it all mean? What happens to American culture as a whole when our best and brightest put home and hearth above other concerns? Does this sudden fascination with traditional homemaking bode ill for gender equality? What role have the media and blog culture played in making domesticity look so darn appealing?" (1). 

I'll keep you all updated as to how the book is going. Anyway what are you all reading these days?