Do you ever come across a blog that literally takes your breath away? It happened to me yesterday. I’m taking the Blogging Your Way class over at decor8, and Leslie from A Creative Mint is co-teaching it with Holly. While I’d glanced through some of her color posts on decor8, I had never checked out her own blog. WOW! It is all original content, full of little vignettes she creates with papers, tapes, ornaments, fabrics, flowers, you name it. But each one is so perfectly composed. Each ones fits into that post’s color story. Each one contains little projects that make me say “how did she ever come up with that?” It doesn’t seem right to take a photo from over there out of context, but I’m going to go ahead and tease you with one. You won’t be able to stop scrolling once you head over:

As soon as I saw this one, I realized Leslie MUST have gone to architecture school. You know, I knew another architecture grad who started a stationary shop, and this reminds me of the perfect little vignettes she had all over the store.

Image from A Creative Mint

This might be the first time we’ve had an actual person in a flickr fave. No wait, I think there was a child on a hammock once, but that’s it! I love everything about this shot that Stacy Anne Longenecker added to our Fresh New Spaces Group. It’s a darling shot of the two of them, and I am loving the art arrangement and shelves behind them!

So while I was perusing her Apartment Set, I came across this clever idea:

This Fresh New Space comes from flickr member jinkazamah. I especially love that oversized Queen Anne’s Lace on the long horizontal built in against the stripes.

This new addition to our Fresh New Spaces Pool on flickr comes from member h4ndz:

I love the YELLOW SOFA, the Danish modern pieces, the beam/lantern combo, the art arrangement on the wall and all the wonderful light from that window.

Now I’m enjoying the most recent interview over at Balustrade and Bitters with Kishani Perera. I love the way she uses color!

OK, as soon as this laptop battery dies, I’m going to go clean out my desk and reorganize my inspiration board!