Casual Friday

I really loved this week in blogland. With the start of the new year, so many bloggers wrote thoughtful posts about their personal lives and their plans and dreams for 2015...and I found myself nodding along with them. So many of you are struggling with the same things that I am, and working toward the same goals. It's encouraging and inspiring! I really believe that this is going to be a great year, and I hope it's a great one for blogging in general. I think there are some shifts going on, and (in my opinion) they're good ones. I think we'll see more bloggers share snippets into their real lives, mess and all, and their thoughts on topics that matter to them. I think (I hope) we'll see a shift back to enjoying the simple things in life, and just plain enjoying LIFE without an agenda behind every get together, every camera photo, and every craft project. I love blogging and I love all the pretty stuff (oh man, I really do) but I also crave genuineness and I find that the "real talk" posts are the ones that resonate with me the most. I mean, it would be pretty hard to be friends with someone who always pretended her life was perfect, right? Anyways, with that being said, here are some of the blog posts that I loved this week...plus a few others that I've been mulling over for awhile and want to share.

This post on Hello Lidy really resonated with me.

I loved these behind the scenes photos on Sugar & Cloth and Studio DIY. HILAR.

A Beautiful Mess wrote a great post on shopping new, old, high, and low.

This interview with Ali Nelson on The Everygirl was SO inspiring. You gotta read it.

Decor8 has a new series about blogging trends going on. I'm still thinking about her first post on slow blogging.

And there were so many other bloggers who wrote great posts about what they're looking forward to in 2015--focus words, resolutions, goals, and all that. Here are a few of them (they also happen to be some of my favorite blogs that you should totally follow):

The Crafted Life / Homey Oh My! / Leona Lane / The Proper Pinwheel / Designlovefest

Read on, and be inspired. Hope you all have a super fun weekend!

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