No. 106: All the Content I'm Consuming Right Now & A Time Capsule of Old Favorites From the Golden Era of Content

This is a group project, by the way.

this photo was taken in 2016 and is exactly where I sat to sip tea and read the blogs you’re about to sift through every single morning for years. what a time.

Today’s post is a group project I hope brings us all so much nostalgia and tons of inspiration for this current season. We’re carting kids to and from school, we’re dropping off at sports, we’re deep cleaning our homes and purging stuff we no longer need. If you’re not a hybrid homeschooling mom with a one year old like me, Congratulations. Okay, only joking, but if that is true you have some extra time on your hands and I’m here to give you something to look forward to with all those empty minutes. I’m going to share all of the content I most enjoy right now, but before I get there I’m turning back time and sharing all the blogs and websites I checked weekly, if not daily, when all this started over a decade ago. Once you read mine, I’m begging you comment with your first favorite blogs or YouTube channels as well as your new content favorites. A two part comment, deal? Because I truly feel like this will tell us everything we need to know about one another. We’re talking in college or post-college for me, that 20010-2017ish time frame.

Thankfully, I still have an iPad from this time with my saved bookmarks and they take me back, y’all. I went to fashion school and was in my peak sewing days, designing clothing and heading to Blick every day for Studio Art classes. Fashion consumed my mind for most of college, but I also got engaged at the end of my Freshman year and was married right after finals my Sophmore year which means wedding content crept in there, too. My focus then shifted to interior design as we bought out home in Virginia my Junior year and from then on, “lifestyle” blogging crept in as a ridiculous obsession. I’d wake up, make a cup of tea, sit at my desk to read the Word before writing in my prayer journal and then I’d work my way down a list of daily reads that took me—I kid you not— an hour, most days. Am I alone here? Outfit blog posts were super quick reads, but I’d get stuck in rabbit holes constantly digging back further and further on interior design sites and websites featuring weddings and events like, ‘100 Layer Cakes.’ I also read all the original Mormon Mommy Bloggers, some of which wrote about ten words per post, others who wrote novels with dozens of Pinterest-worthy photos. I can’t even imagine the luxurious life I lead to just sit at my desk with nothing required of me for an hour plus just feasting with my eyeballs, but I was 21 years old and my husband played professional football. The livin’ was easy.

I moved my iMac for these photos back in the day but just trust, it was about as big as the desk.

My Daily to Weekly Content Intake 2011-2015: