Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens… brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. 

Sorry I had that song in my head and now you have to have it in yours! 

I often get emails asking what some of my favorite blogs and websites are so I thought I would devote a post to that!

One of my absolute most favorite blogs EVER is Confessions of a Pioneer Woman.  Oh my goodness she makes me laugh.  She’s a city girl who married a hottie farmer that she calls Marlboro Man and now lives with him and their four children on their farm.  She talks about her daily life and I think she has to be one of the funniest writers on the planet.  Yesterday she had a post about the process of giving the cows on their farm pregnancy tests.  I was laughing through the entire post, the commentary with the photos was a riot.  If you visit her blog (which you simply must do), be sure and have plenty of time on your hands because it’s addicting.  She also has another blog that is all about her recipes and she includes photos so you know exactly how she does it.  Ree also happens to be a fantastic photographer.  If she ever comes back to Los Angeles for a visit, I want to take her out for a drink!  She’s my kind of people!  You can find her here: http://www.thepioneerwoman.com and for her recipes you can find them here: http://www.thepioneerwomancooks.com/

A site that I visited for the first time today that I enjoyed was: http://www.iwanexstudio.com/ , click on portfolio and then click the thumbnails, when you put your mouse over the photo it is the unedited version, and they are all celebrity photos.  It’s amazing how different some of the celebrities look before they are edited.

Of course I’ll confess to reading the celebrity gossip blog sites - www.perezhilton.com and www.dlisted.com

It takes no time at all to go through blogs if you use Google Reader.  Instead of visiting every site you put all the blogs you like in to a list and it tells you which ones have new content, so it only takes about 5-10 minutes a day to get through them.  Be sure to add my blog when you set up your free account http://www.google.com/reader

I don’t remember if I blogged this or not but I broke down and bought a iphone a week before my vacation.  It really came in handy and I’m in love with it.  So much for me saying I was going to wait a while.  Anyway, there is a blog that has a iphone tip of the day and it’s pretty cool some of the stuff he has talked about so far.  http://tips4iphone.blogspot.com

Of course I cannot leave out the mothership listing of blogs and my blog also happens to be one of the blogs listed on the site (YAY), http://www.delightfulblogs.com . There are blogs listed there for just about every subject you can think of.  I bet you will find a lot of new favorites there.

I have a many more blogs to share but I’ll save those for later!  I’ve given you enough to keep ya busy for a while! ENJOY!