Last Friday we discussed Cutting Through Design Blog Smog and I promised that I'd reveal my daily reads to you today since you want to know. These are the design blogs that I don't miss at the end of each day when I've finished writing decor8 and have a moment to kick back and enjoy the voices of my bloggy friends. Of course, there are other blogs that I read via RSS feeds each week and others that I won't list because I consider them a bit more personal (blogs authored by family members and close personal friends, for example) but here is a grouping of reads that I refer to on a daily basis.

Delightful Blogs is a wonderful source for finding blogs organized by topic with an edited directory of 3,200+ blogs! Be sure to check it out to find blogs that you feel a connection to.

Here's some of my daily reads for design and a tad bit of fashion, too! Everyone has a different list of daily reads, so please share yours below.

• Creature Comforts - Founder and editor Ez out in Southern California gives me my daily dose of fashion and interiors inspiration, and I love the content and voice behind it. I also adore how well everything is laid out.

• Style Files - I met this blogger, Danielle, a few times already. We attended a design fair in Holland and another in Sweden a year later where we spent the weekend shopping, eating, and meeting readers who follow our blogs in Sweden -- exciting! I feel especially close to Danielle because she's more than a blogger to me, she's a friend now and I think that's pretty special. She also lives in Holland and is Dutch, so I really enjoy her perspective on design and her sense of style -- it's very clean and uncomplicated. Plus her blog is truly lovely.

• Making It Lovely - Nicole is a graphic designer and she loves to decorate, so I get my graphic design and DIY fix daily from this girl. She is a new homeowner and lives with her husband in Chicago in the cutest bungalow. It's fun to peek in on what she's up to next. Another thing I love about Nicole? She's humble. She asks her readers for decorating feedback.

• Emmas Designblogg - Another blogger that I met in person, Emma actually showed me around Stockholm last year that included cocktails and a beautiful organic buffet brunch. She has the typical Scandinavian style that I love and a genuine and sweet spirit about her. I like the products she finds because they're not typical to what I find here in American stores and magazines and because what she writes hasn't been all over blogland a thousand times already.

• SF Girl By Bay - Victoria is the big sister I never had but have always wanted. She's stylish, has a great sense of humor, and lives in San Francisco, a city that I would never live in (too expensive) but secretly wish I could. So everyday I live through Victoria instead. And I love how she decorates, it's Stockholm meets San Francisco with a dash of Sydney - fresh, white, jolts of energetic color, and vintage finds mixed in with modern pieces from affordable stores like Room & Board and IKEA -- so it's within reach. Plus Victoria has a good spirit, she's real and approachable. I really value her voice in the design blogging world so much.

• My Marrakesh - Who wouldn't love a blog authored by a savvy well-traveled American who is not only a mother and wife, but works as a specialist in human rights and democracy and is diligently working alongside her architect husband to build and soon open, a lovely hotel retreat in Marrakesh called the Peacock Pavillions. You can gaze in on her beautiful world via her blog and watch the progress she's making with the building project. I hope to visit Maryam in 2009 with my husband, too. We've become great friends through our blogs over the past few years.

• Absolutely Beautiful Things - Authored by Anna Spiro, would has exceptional style, this blog oozes with class and color. Anna lives in Australia and has impeccable taste, and she should, she's an Interior Designer and design shop owner. Love this lady!

• And Bloesem because Irene is just so lovely and down-to-earth and she blogs about some of the most beautiful handmade crafty things ever. She's a wife and mom and all around great lady.

The design blogs that we read reveals a lot about our personal style. When you look over the above list, it's clear that I love European life, am dying to visit Australia and Morocco, adore California (my favorite U.S. state), and love design that's a bit exotic and colorful, modern, lots of handmade tactile things, clean but with character, mostly neutral base with bright colors as accents, and enjoy being around laid back easy-going none over-achiever types. Not to say that these ladies aren't doing a lot in their life, they are, but they're balanced and live a life that I enjoy sharing with them daily through their blogs. They aren't just bloggers, they are mothers, business owners, wives, and extremely inspirational women that I've grown to adore. That's why these particular blogs click with me. Of course you are different, you may have your own list and by sharing mine I'm not stating these are the only blogs online worth reading. There are thousands.

If you'd like to find more lovely blogs, here's my own list of favorites right here: decor8 Links. Y

And a little note: these reads aren't the only blogs I'm looking at, I check out Apartment Therapy, Delicious Days, Dooce, Hatch, Hue Consulting, Turquoise, Unclutterer, Print and Pattern, and many others on a weekly basis -- lately the best time for that is on Friday afternoon after I've wrapped up everything for the week - my end of week reward. I find it a nice way to kick off the weekend too.

Who are you reading?

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