New Obsessions

New year. New ways to waste time.

School has not started yet, so the combination of no homework, MLK holiday, and SUPREMELY cold weather has left with me ample amount of time to not only get a lot of reading done (HOORAY!) but also poke around on the internet, which is an amazing place if you ask me. So many of my days have found me in my sun-drenched living room with a cup of tea boning up on reviews for the Caldecott contenders or perusing a fashion blog. Life is rough. The things I have found have kept me busy for hours. I don't know what I am going to do when school starts again and my evenings are filled yet again with paper writing and article reading. Don't hate.

Anyway. Here are my new favorite places on the web. You should check them out.

• BOOKS! 
• Jacket Knack  
• The Brown Bookshelf 
• Collecting Children's Books 
•  Read Roger
• 100scopenotes 
• Reading Rants! 
• Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast 
• ACPL Mock Caldecott 
• ACPL Mock Newbery  

• Fashion and Other
• Cupcakes and Cashmere 
• Urban Comfort 
• Katie Armour - The Neo-Traditionalist 
• Matchbook Magazine 
• Good Life for Less 
•  Rose a la Mode  

And finally! The site that pulls it all together: Pinterest!!! Honestly, Pinterest has become all-consuming for me. It's worse than Facebook! Yikes! I have become a pinning machine. I go searching for things on the internet to pin. Hence my new fascination with fashion and crafty blogs. Where did that come from? Pinterest!

Anyone else know any really great, afternoon-wasting websites? Please share!


Also. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, here is his last speech. What an amazing, amazing man. This speech gives me goosebumps. We have so much to learn from him.

 

And this: U2's Pride. Their tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. Sorry for the bad quality and ignore the french subtitles. I just thought this video had some very moving images.

Caitlin