• Powerless to Help – homeless perspective on Earth Day lights out
• Design Blogs Visited – good resource list from Andrew Haig
• Davina Zagury – lovely photography
• Roadmaps: breaking free - freelancing
• Favorite artist: emmanuel polanco – interesting typography/art
• Frank Woodley called me ugly and it made my day - my favourite comedian and little sister ‘meet’
• “Would you rather your children grow up in America of Uganda?” - great post from Anne Jackson
• Experimenting with Prayer – interesting thoughts from Hammo
• Love will win the day – the naked pastor’s thoughts on community
• Youth Ministry Resources - as it says
• Something old… something new – more youth ministry resources
• Old Stone Highway House: modern future forward design – beautiful environmental house
• Photobooth Album – love the idea, doubt my part of Australia has any old photobooths
• Global Child Prostitution Crisis Surges, demand up, ages down – be aware
• The other side of the fence – ripper thoughts from Makeesha
• While pretending not to stare – the hypothetical you is perhaps more interesting
• Things for sale that I will mail you - I blogged about this already! Astounding ingenuity
• Print of the day, when do the clocks go back? - lovely art
• Owl found in the cockpit of a fighter jet – my mum puts photos like this on her fridge
• Holy fool and francis blessing – ideas from Jonny Baker that I never followed up and should
• “Hey mister Pulizter man, come and write a song for me” – Bob Dylan gets the Pulitzer, huzzah!
• Why should we care about mystery stories? – interesting blogging format, translatable to other stuff!

and that better do for now, the computer battery is fast running out. More to come. Oh dear.

To change it up a bit this time I’m going to somewhat categorise the links. As you might have guessed I do read particular types of blogs, design features up there oddly often in the shape of interiors (rather than graphics) I think it is my secret lust of pretty yet functional things. I’d love to have a house I could do anything to and the money to match. Alas I shall for the moment content myself with saliva inducing photographs. Anyway as I was saying, design isn’t probably the highlight of everyone’s day – regardless you should at least venture in to just ONE of these posts if only to expand your mind even if it constricts and flees with horror.

Design/Art/Interiors/Creativity

• An Angel at my Table {Mari Eriksson} – Decor8 – fairly amazing rooms/setup
• Blanket Magazine – Poppy Talk – art/design magazine NOT about blankets you stupid person
• Brown and Green Night – Daily Dose of Imagery – beautiful photography
• Viva Tera (eco finds for Spring) – Decor8 – check the clock!
• Office by Vanessa De Vargas – Decor8 – different rooms
• Monsters and Beasts – Oh Happy Day – cool idea, kids drawings into toys
• Do You Gocco?-Moleskinerie – interesting printing technique which I’d like to investigate more
• Labokoff – Decor8 – Photography and paint
• Grid and Column Designs – Web Designer Wall
• Art Anyone? – Jason Boucher – Art by Terence Robert, kinda quirky
• 2008 – Church Marketing Lab Photo Pool – Calendar
• A kerning joke for the designers among us – About:Blank – Well I get it…
• Tarzan – Sarah’s Sketches – Ah it’s just good. I love it.
• Douglas Jones Posters – Poppy Talk – Utter brilliance, hilarity and wit and so on.
• Pooptricity – Inhabitat – Clever sustainability ideas
• Half Awake (miniatures) by Erin Tyner – Poppy Talk – Fascinating
• Clipping Art – Abbey Goes Design Scouting – clever idea
• A Colourful Community – Way Out West – attracted by the icons really…
• The Narrow Way Prints Available – Naked Pastor – Must get myself one of these, I LOVE IT.
• Cassandra Barney – Oh Happy Day – paintings
• Sweater Alteration – Oh Happy Day – Goodness this is brilliant, try this on for size oh stingy thrifty people.
• Jonathan Alder’s Monthy Musings – Oh Happy Day – A reminder to self to check it out
• The Dailies: Laure from Apartment Therapy – Design for Mankind – A reminder to do a Day in the Life photographically (myself)

And that’s all for the design line up this time around, more ‘other’ coming later.

These are things that over the past month have inspired me, made the think, laugh, made me go ‘Ah ha!’ and all other whatevers that have given a somewhat slightly stronger response than the other posts I’ve been reading. ie. They wound up in Google Starred section.

By some fluke it seems the girls have won this time, with some nice familiar regular ‘starred’ faces showing up, along with some new ones.

Working from late Jan through to Feb:

• Handling Offenses – Lori Boucher, Confessions of a Pastors Wife
• The Abbey – Christina Aitken, Sojourn
• My Search for the Perfect Cafe [And what it taught me about blogging] – Darren Rowse, ProBlogger
• Chip Kidd on Graphic Design – Poppy, Poppy Talk
• Anti-foundationism – Joe Thorn, Pastor Joe Thorn
• An Open Letter to Fred Phelps and Westbro Church – Katherine Coble, Just Another Pretty Farce
• Friendship: The other side – Makeesha Fisher, Swinging From the Vine
• Kuler Color Tool - Jessica, No Accounting for Taste
• Purify your WordPress Experience – Heather, Oh My Stinkin Heck
• Mettes Pottery {Home} – Holly Becker, Decor8
• Prophetic Voices – Makeesha Fisher, Swinging From the Vine
• Are we unbalanced? – Jessica Hagy, Indexed
• Field Notes Set – Poppy, Poppy Talk
• On Love & Risk – Joshua Longbrake, Love in the Key of Longbrake
• Happiness – Samantha, Blonde Musings
• Little Zoo – Jordan Ferney, Oh Happy Day
• Television Q & A – Heather, Oh My Stinkin Heck
• West Elm Newbies – Jordan Ferney, Oh Happy Day
• The Bible – Katherine Coble, Just Another Pretty Farce
• The Work of God’s Kingdom – Fred, Of First Importance
• Kill Plastic Bags with Taxes, Look to Ireland – Emily, Inhabitat
• Yes we can – Makeesha Fisher, Swinging From the Vine