For your own good

You must all go and check out the loveliness that is Fishing for Beautiful. Exactly my favorite sort of blog crush. Posts full or prettiness and variety.

Smitten

I'm absolutely smitten with Neawear's wallwear. So adorable and pretty!

Also crushworthy is her blog - Creativadoration. Enjoy!

Adrift

While wandering around the internet this morning, I stumbled onto a marvelous fashion blog. Adri (admittedly not her real name) shares fashion inspiration and wonderful outfits on Adrift in the Blogosphere. I immediately email it over to the oh-so stylish Kristen so she can share in my glee. And then I realized it would be selfish not to share this find with our readers as well. So here you go!

I adore how each look is so pretty and effortless-looking. And what a wide range of styles she pulls off! Definitely a help to get me out of my same old same old rut.

The simplicity of mornings

If someone were to take a picture of my mornings, it would look like a blur. I get up to late. I rarely grab breakfast. When I do, its usually a yogurt grabbed at the last second and eaten at my ugly desk at work. Somedays, its a mocha snagged from the gas station on my way to work. So very unchic.

However, in my more organized dream world, I would wake up a couple hours before work, make a delicious breakfast, pore over pretty magazines, and ease my way into the day. Since the likelihood of that happening is pretty slim, I'd like to present my recent blog crush. Simply Breakfast is so pretty and inspiring. It's daily pictures of a woman's breakfast. Sounds kind of boring, right? Take a look. Its the kind of everyday beauty that really keeps me seeking out more beauty in my own life.

(And if you, like me, adore those bird salt and pepper shakers in that last picture, you can find them at Patina Stores.)

A new direction...

We've decided to take our little blog off in a slightly new direction! Until now, we've focused on Etsy shopping, and while we'll definitely still be featuring items from Etsy shops (because there's just so much awesome stuff over there, naturlich), we're going to start featuring items, ideas and inspirations from other sources as well. Our goal is to make So Sweet & So Cold into a blog about style & design, a place to visit to see pretty things and get pretty ideas. We'll still be showing you where to buy some of the stuff we post, don't worry.

We've overhauled the Label system over to the right. This will be painless, we promise. Anyway, here's an overview:

- We did away with the pricing labels ($, $$, $$$, $$$$)
- We're keeping the category labels (art, accessories, etc), and all previously labeled posts are still in their same categories
- We added some new labels, which we will start using here on out:

"Shopping List" : this replaces the pricing labels, and indicates that something is available for sale somewhere. If you're in the mood to spend and you only want to see items you can buy, you can just look at all posts with this label and shop your heart out!

"Decorating Ideas" : what's more inspiring than seeing a fab decorating job? This label is for home-dec images and articles. If you're stumped about what color to paint your new apartment (as Kristen is, at this moment) or want to see a truly beautiful kitchen, have a look here for inspiration.

"Crafty Projects" : We know there are tons of great sites out there that post craft projects, but with so many of them, there's no way you can see everything! If we find a project or tutorial that is too good to miss, we'll put it here.

"Blog Crush" : Check here for super awesome blogs we love so much, they warrant a whole post devoted to them.

Lastly, we're going to start featuring some advertising in the column over there to the left. Rates are super affordable (really!) and we can help out with the design of your ad if you don't have one, so hit us up if you're interested! sosweetxsocold AT gmail DOT com

Well, that takes care of everything! We hope you enjoy.

xo,
kristen & claire