The Best Bloggers

Y'all. One of my resolutions was to blog weekly. Here it is 14 days after my resolutions post, and yet I have nothing prepared to blog about. I have tried taking photos of the house with my camera, but with my still limited knowledge and the incessant rain and overcast skies, I have nothing pretty to share. I have tons of old photos of wedding DIY's (all taken with my crummy iPhone), but none have been edited and prettified. Sigh. BUT even with all of these to do's on my list, I have found time (mostly when I take my necessary mental breaks at work) to peruse my daily dose of blogs.

(Hand raised) My name is Francesca, and I am addicted to reading blogs. I have been addicted since I started college and discovered some beauties through Flickr and Tumblr. I then discovered Bloglovin' which made it so much easier to browse through numerous blogs seamlessly (especially when they added their mobile app!) and my collection/obsession grew. Now I follow around 100(!) blogs regularly, and I love them all, but there are a few that stand out to me as favorites.

So, without further ado, here are (in my humble opinion) the best bloggers you should be following, like, now:

(via The Pioneer Woman)

The Pioneer Woman Cooks

Come on, if you aren't already following her blog, you're clearly living under a rock. She's a master of the kitchen and her ranch home. She has AMAZING recipes which she demonstrates with step by step instructions accompanied with beautiful photos. Seriously, whenever I want to try a new recipe, I always Google the name of the dish with "The Pioneer Woman" to ensure I do it her way.

(via The Pioneer Woman)

(via The Pioneer Woman)

The BEST part about her blog is her writing style and the humor she uses while detailing the cooking process. I aspire to be as dang funny as this lady one day. She also now has a cooking show on Food Network, which I've somehow never seen, but am determined to check out in the near future!

(via HGTV)

Young House Love

Ya'll, I am obsessed with the Petersiks. This super humble and cute couple have lived in three fixer-upper houses and used their DIY skills to make some amazing (and cheap) renovations and decorating changes. They have superpowers, truly.

(via Young House Love)

(via Young House Love)

My favorite part about their blog is how transparent they are about costs, the details of the processes, and the mistakes they made - all in an effort to benefit their readers. They take awesome photos along the way, and, of course, have an incredible honest/funny writing style, which makes you feel like you're actually friends with them. For real, I audibly squealed for joy in my cubicle when they announced they were pregnant with a second child. I have a problem.

(via A Beautiful Mess)

A Beautiful Mess

Elsie Larson's blog is one of the first blogs I ever started following when I happened upon her cute photos on Flickr. Back then, she wasn't married, was running a cute vintage shop, and merely blogged little craft projects and outfits. 

(via A Beautiful Mess)

(via A Beautiful Mess)

Fast forward five years, she and her sister, Emma, are running the blog full time and I have witnessed as they have planned weddings, bought/decorated new houses, written two books, made a smartphone app, and covered an array of craft/photo/DIY/food/fashion topics. They are basically just the coolest, and I wish I had the guts to dress like them. Sigh.