Birdie’s Favorite Blogs

I am a busy per­son. I guess that state­ment pretty much applies to every­one. For me, it means that I have to limit the time I spend surf­ing blogs. While it is tons of fun, it is also a huge time suck. Some­thing out of a sci-fi movie. You sit down to ‘just check a few things’ and expe­ri­ence a time dis­tor­tion where you think you have been read­ing a blog(s) for 20 min­utes and it has actu­ally been two hours. My point here is, it is impor­tant to only go to the blogs that really do it for you so you don’t waste your time on medi­oc­rity. That being said, here are five of the blogs I visit the most!

The Pio­neer Woman

If you haven’t heard of the phe­nom­e­non that is Ree Drum­mond, I don’t know how you and I can pos­si­bly be on the same planet. She’s all sorts of an awe­some blog­ger (OMG those recipes, pic­tures, tips!) but she also has an amaz­ing cook­book out, has been fea­tured in sev­eral mag­a­zines, tele­vi­sion shows, and has a new book com­ing out soon. She’s a home­school­ing, city girl, rancher wife, pho­tog­ra­pher, super chef, chic chick. LOVE her. I want to be as awe­some as she is when I’m all growed up. Oh and she is upbeat AND funny.

I’m a Lazy Mom

How do you not want to read a blog with a title like that? I guess if you are not a mom, maybe? Or if you don’t like to think of your­self as lazy. Scratch that last one because I go nuts if some­one calls me lazy and I love this blog. It isn’t really about being lazy, it’s about get­ting things done effi­ciently so you have time to do every­thing. Tips, con­fes­sions, recipes, and hilar­ity are all sorts of her thing.

Bak­erella

As the name implies, this is a site about bak­ing. But not just any kind of bak­ing. Adorable, amaz­ing, inspired bak­ing that will make you ask your­self, Martha who???? Two words: cup­cake pops. So amaz­ing. So. Just, yeah. If you are even remotely inter­ested in bak­ing (my favorite form of cook­ing) you sim­ply must go to this site. It’s inspir­ing and yummy. It’s a sugar rush with­out the sugar (unless you fol­low through then there is actual yummy sugar).

Cakewrecks

While we are on the sub­ject of my obses­sion with bak­ing, let me intro­duce you to Cakewrecks. This is a hus­band and wife team (mostly wife, but some hubby) who post cakes that are total dis­as­ters every day. Except for Sun­day when you will get a dose of Sun­day Sweets that show you just how awe­some cake art can be when it is done well. The com­men­tary is hilar­i­ous and the pic­tures are…amazing. Some will amaze you by how any­one could think they could get paid for mak­ing it and oth­ers will amaze you that the art­work is edible.

Filth Wiz­ardry

A dirty lit­tle secret of mine is that I want to be crafty. I LOVE being cre­ative and expres­sive and all that jazz but…I lack fol­low through. I’m a big pic­ture kind of girl and have trou­ble with lit­tle things like details. Which makes read­ing about craft­ing a great out­let. I get to enjoy all the cool­ness and see the results with­out hav­ing to actu­ally do any­thing. This blog is FULL of amaz­ing things to do with lit­tle ones and I’ve been so inspired (on occa­sion) that I actu­ally did do a lit­tle fol­low through. If you look at noth­ing else…find her repur­posed duplo block post. As a teacher and a parent…I’m in love.

*WARNING – It is very impor­tant that you do not visit any of these sites for the first time if you have any­thing else you want to accom­plish. They are all that good and that addic­tive. Seri­ously. Walk away if you can’t spend a few hours the first time. Don’t even go to book­mark them. Don’t DO IT! You won’t be able to walk away. Ok..now ignore my advice and get to read­ing

<3 Birdie

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What are your favorite blogs? What’s so spe­cial about them? What’s got you hooked?

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