A Blog is a blog is a Blog
Over the holidays I have had enjoyed some downtime from my usual work routine. I love spending time traveling the world in search of really great new design ideas and of course fabrics. At an ants pace I am learning bits of technology; my biggest excitement was figuring our how to make my website link on my email signature. And, yes it was so easy.... if I'd only known...that I actually needed that HTTP:// part....simple.
From my blog research, some of the most popular blogs are created as catchalls of content from other designers; the blog owners are more of an Editorial Magazine Role, picking and choosing their favorite finds of the blog world and beyond. And then there is the design oriented blogs that are full of original content choosing to show their unique products, share their travels, their favorite recipes or whatever their forte. And then there are those that are a little of both. It's not easy to come up with original ideas everyday. Some days it's a piece of cake and others the words and ideas are hiding deep.
One of my favorite tools when researching blogs is to go through the "favorite blogs lists". Isn't it amazing where the time goes, traveling from one blog onto the next and then onto the next blog favorites list. You can whip around the world in no time flat. For me it's great. I live in one of the most beautiful places on earth, but I don't get much of a chance to get the heck out of here to poke in city shops or wander through Europe or head to Iceland. I have traveled lots and long to hit the road again, but day to day business keeps me going 1.5 miles to work and back on most days.
Another fun way to kill an hour is to keep hitting the NEXT button on Blogger. Have you ever tried that? It's pot luck; sometimes great and sometimes it's about one's lastest illness or family pets.... but sometimes it's great. One day I found a great blog in Finland. Having lived in Sweden for a year I enjoy seeing what the design trends are up in Scandinavia. Great new stuff, new ideas and all at my fingertips. It amazes me all the languages that pop up; I sometimes forget English isn't the only one; you know living up here in Vermont.... it's pretty white bread.
I am in the process of updating my own blog list. My web guy has moved my blog to my website, sooooooo.... technology challenges me to figure out how to change my blog list. Yikes.
I always suggest my business friends start a blog... they are free (at least for the basics)! It is handy to look back and have a record of some of my work. It makes me write which is always a good exercise. It makes me pull my camera out of it's case now and then. And it makes the world feel a little smaller, even from the couch.
And hopefully more than my mom is reading this.... enjoy the rest of the weekend
xoxo,
judy
posted by judy lake | Sunday, January 10, 2010
3 Comments:
I just got your book in the mail. Can't wait to dive into it!
Brenda
Yes, my dear Judy - more than your Mom is indeed reading your blog :) Although I have to say it is as much for selfish motives as it is to find out what's up with you, since looking at your blog makes me feel like being "back home" in VT. As you say: the world at the fingertips, even from the couch. And so it is that I travel to VT regularly all the way from Spain. Today my visit has a formidable reason: YOUR BOOK ARRIVED!
A ritual in most Mediterranean locations, first thing in the morning is to open the shutters to invite the outside in.The more surprised I was that the shutter at my front door was closed again when I came back from taking Rafi to school this morning.But the mail lady must have known how anxious I was to see your book - because she left it, hidden behind the closed shutter. There is was, in typical Lake fashion even the address label was whimsical and pretty. My boyfriend said "Let's make a coffee, and then open it up"...right. I have a lot of things, but patience sure isn't one of them, so by the time the kettle went onto the stove I was already reading your lovely note :) Then I finally held it in my hands! WOW! The book in reality is so much lovelier than any thumbprint on a website can possibly pay it justice. It is absolutely amazing. Elegant, fun, entertaining to read, practical, shiny, colorful, inspiring - oh, and did I mention: FUN. In this year of depressing news, I can see why one would want to flip through the pages of pretty lampshades and imagine them warmly lit up in a cozy room. Page 37 had me bawl my eyes out: Maddy and the puppy....and she looks just like Lilly. So many times that I have been to your shop, which now is a "must visit location" in New England, coffees sipped on your front porch, which now is a "Kodak snap point". Your book is a trip back in time to wonderful memories of a place that always stirs up warm and fuzzy feelings in my heart and mind. I am so proud of you. I am gonna go and have that coffee now, reading your book in front of my cast iron stove, wishing I was back there in your shop watching your cat use the bathroom :) Al my love - the chunky blonde xx
Thanks you guys. Love to hear these wonderful comments. And Sussanne, you'll be back to visit before you know it.The porch and the couch will always be waiting.
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