Pencil Portrait Lessons

Pencil Portrait Lessons is an impressive blog that offers step by step tutorials for creating stunning pencil portraits.

If you've always wanted to learn how to draw pencil portraits, the very talented owner/creator of the blog, Michael, will help inspire you to start drawing, and demonstrate the important details you need to look at when you draw. He has also started a new feature on the site where he recommends other artists on the web with a link to their blog.

Art Projects for Kids

Art Projects for Kids is an excellent crafty blog written by Kathy Barbro, an art teacher. On her blog, she shares lots of fun art projects and crafty ideas for children (and adults).

If you are looking for some creative inspiration and ideas for projects to create with children, Art Projects for Kids is the blog for you!

Geninne's Art Blog

Geninne's Art Blog shows beautiful illustrations created by Geninne, a very talented freelance illustrator/designer and a stay at home mom. Her artistic blog is a joy to behold and also an inspiration. There is a free Hand Carved Stamps Tutorial on the blog too.

You can purchase prints and original watercolors via Geninne's Art Store.

CraftSanity

CraftSanity is a blog and podcast for those who love all things handmade.

Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood is the writer and CraftSanity Podcast producer. Her impressive podcast/blog is about her plans, "...to interview artists and crafters from around the globe, review the latest books and products and share fun project ideas..." which sounds like a tall order but she is succeeding!

If you enjoy crafting, you will certainly enjoy reading and listening to CraftSanity.

Anna Maria Horner

Anna Maria Horner is a very talented fabric designer and her cheerful blog, Anna Maria, offers lots of creative inspiration with photos of her beautiful designs, and some free downloads such as her Garden Wall Quilt pattern.

Anna Maria Horner also has a shop and a book called, Seams to Me: 24 New Reasons to Love Sewing due out soon (it will be available in October of 2008).

Garden Rooms

Garden Rooms is a lovely blog written by Robyn Pope, a west coast garden designer specializing in gardens for children. Robyn's blog provides lots of photos of beautiful gardens and offers plenty of creative ideas to inspire you.

StartSewing

Do you like to sew? Or perhaps you wish you had and you don't know where to start? I have just the site for you, it's called, StartSewing and it provides all the pertinent information (over 70 articles) and helpful advice that you need. There is a guide to buying a sewing machine, sewing terminology, tips regarding selecting the right fabric and pattern preparation, a guide to following patterns, and a how-to section for making various home furnishings. The site also provides two sections explaining how to make fancy dress (costumes) for kids and adults.

And if that's not enough, there is a series of videos to assist you in learning how to sew!

Sew Me Something Good

If you enjoy sewing, you will love Katherine's blog, Sew Me Something Good. Katherine writes about her various creative projects and also shares some free tutorials.

Today's Creative Blog & Scrap To My Lu blog

Today's Creative Blog is written by Kim, a fitness instructor and mom. Kim states in her 'about' page that "I love anything creative. Love decorating, scrapbooking, cruising creative blogs."

Kim's crafty talents are also featured in her other blog, Scrap To My Lu.

Both of Kim's blogs offers lots of creative ideas and inspiration for crafts and decorating.

Two Pink Possums - a crafty blog

Two Pink Possums is the cute name for a lovely blog written by Linda, a talented lady in Tasmania, Australia. Her tagline on her blog explains what she writes about: "creating handmade things,trying to knit,vintage treasures,op shops,books,fabric,baking and everyday mayhem" and it's all that and more. If you like sewing, knitting, baking, and doing other crafts, you will love her inspiring blog.

The Creative Mom Podcast

The Creative Mom Podcast is a weekly podcast that is always interesting and enjoyable to listen to. The Creative Mom (Amy) offers lots of inspiration and encouragement to be creative plus book reviews and inspiring music too.

Amy also writes a delightful blog called Threaded Thoughts where she writes about the "...strands of motherhood and creativity that define me."

Angry Chicken - a crafty blog

Angry Chicken is the amusing name of a lovely crafty blog written by Amy Karol, a stay at home mother (formerly a commercial interior designer) who makes crafty things.

Amy's creative endeavors offer lots of ideas and inspiration. There are recipes on her blog too.

House to Home - interior design ideas

If you are thinking about re-decorating and need help and inspiration for interior design ideas, House To Home is the site for you!

There are numerous (2590) photos of different rooms for inspiration - sorted by category (bedroom, kitchen, etc.)and style (contemporary, formal, etc.) - to view and links to the shops where you can purchase the items for the look you like.

The site also provides a handy Decorating Tools section, with a colour planner, room planner, garden planner and project calculators.

The Expert Advice section of the site provides more useful advice, tips, and guides.

The Toymaker - free papercrafts

The Toymaker is a charming papercrafts site by Marilyn Scott Waters.

The site has a lot of lovely features such as Charles and Brook Otter paperdolls (and outfits) to print out. The Holidays section offers a lot of different templates for paper boxes, decorations, cards and other fun items. The page of free paper toys are particularly delightful.

Marilyn Scott Waters slso has a lovely journal (blog) called The Toymaker.

Anastasia Drawing and Dreaming

Anastasia Drawing and Dreaming is the name of a lovely creative blog by Anastasia Christou, living in Sydney, Australia.

Anastasia loves "...fashion, drawing and craft especially papercrafts." and of course her blog is about those subjects but it's also about her "... happy life juggling work, family and hobbies."

Anastasia's delightful illustrations and other creative endeavors make her blog fun and inspirational to read.

Cast On - a podcast for knitters

Brenda Dayne, an American living in Wales, produces a very popular knitting podcast called Cast On. Brenda has a way with words and her soothing voice and thougtful musings about knitting, means that her podcast is always informative and entertaining. Brenda's friendly and lively chat is interspersed with lively music too.

I dare say that even if you don't knit, you would probably enjoy listening to Brenda's Cast On podcast. Give it a try and I bet you will become addicted to her podcast like I have!

Exploring Color & Creativity - a blog

Exploring Color & Creativity is an interesting and informative blog about art:

Nita Leland's blog is about her creative and family life, including book reviews, art links and essays on color, creativity, watercolor, teaching and other art subjects.

Nita Leland has a website as well that offers lots of useful arty articles and creative projects. Nita is a keen gardener too and shares photos and writes about her woodland restoration project.

Leanne's House - a blog about sewing, crafting & creativity

Leanne's House is a lovely blog about sewing, embroidery, quilting, and creativity. It's a blog to inspire you.

I really love Leanne Beasley's philosophy: "My mission in life is to show women that with even ten minutes a day you can have a life full of creativity."

Craft Solutions - craft ideas

If you love crafting, you will appreciate Craft Solutions "a directory of craft ideas, craft projects, websites, and much more."

You can choose craft ideas by craft type or by the craft subject in the Free Craft Projects & Craft Ideas Directory, which currently has 777 links!

The website offers all that plus a handy feature for registered users where you can save websites, projects, and articles to your "My Craft Picks" page.

Artsy-Crafty Babe - a crafty blog

Artsy-Crafty Babe is the name of a lovely blog by "a mom who likes to make things" and fortunately, Beki likes to blog about her creations too! I think you will enjoy reading about her ideas and projects and be inspired as well.

Beki offers a free pleated tote pattern too.