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Fashion Write is a blog about fashion, sewing and fabric trends that takes an interesting and entertaining approach to the site owner’s passion for all things clothing-related. The best blogs are those created around a person’s interest in a specific subject, as an outlet for their enthusiasm, and this would certainly describe Fashion Write. If you have an interest in making your own clothes, I’d suggest you go take a look at the site.

Recent articles include an humorous account of a Saturday afternoon sewing group meeting with everyone ‘getting plastered’ i.e. making custom dress forms with rough instructions on how a reader could create a form for herself. Another article covered the construction of a basic muslin pant shell that was similarly informative.

Fashion Write is a WordPress blog, with categories on fabric, fashion trends and sewing/fitting garments. While the look of the site is fairly standard, it’s the writing that makes this blog really stand out. For anyone with an interest in making one’s own clothes and clothing design in general I highly recommend this site. It offers a lot more than the latest news on what celebrities are wearing; rather it is concerned with giving you actionable information on techniques you can use yourself to get creative and save money by making your own fashion statements.

Fashion Write is a site that anyone with an interest in subjects related to do-it-yourself clothes making and sewing will want to bookmark and revisit frequently. As quickly as fashion trends evolve there is clearly no end to the need for commentary on the subject as well as hands-on tips for making your own clothes. It is, after all, an activity that is much older than simply buying everything at retail clothing stores; Fashion Write parallels the current resurgence of interest in DIY garment making generally. Great site!NULL

Sometimes you come across a website that interweaves attractive presentation and creative site design with its commercial components so gracefully that you barely even think of the site as a virtual storefront. Defining Elegance is exactly this sort of site and in my opinion it’s an example of the best way to educate and involve potential customers, as well as encouraging return visits. The overall feeling of the Defining Elegance site is similar to walking through a high-end retail establishment with low-key sales associates who are adept at making your shopping experience as pleasurable as possible.

The site features a comprehensive range of luxury linens, pillows, bedding items, and even curtains and draperies. Whether you are looking to completely redecorate a bedroom or simply add a few high-quality touches you should take a look at what Defining Elegance has to offer you.

In addition to offering luxury linens there are sections of the site devoted to window treatments such as draperies, rugs and lighting, luxury bath items and table linens, and even a gifts and accessories section.

The site layout is split evenly between information about the offerings, as well as attractive photographs of the bedding and other items. Another very smart thing that Defining Elegance has going for it is the very professional short video embedded in the upper right-hand corner of the homepage. Beyond simple still photographs, a well-produced video like this must serve to increase confidence in any online retailer and it really works for the Defining Elegance site. The site even offers a free decorating e-book as well as a newsletter.

As attractive and professional as the Defining Elegance site is, it’s clearly a site to bookmark for future reference, even if you aren’t shopping today for high-quality linens, bedding or draperies. It does an excellent job of being a one-stop shopping destination for anyone looking for these items, as well as an excellent example of how to correctly construct a commercial site that engages visitors.NULL

Thought Smash is one of the more interesting websites that we have had the pleasure of reviewing recently. It’s a very interesting concept that is part review and opinion site and part social media destination. After a fast registration users can leave their opinions about movies, music, products, people, shows, games, politics, religion, romance, food and tech, as a way of sharing their thoughts with the whole internet. Even short comments are welcome, so the site already includes opinions about a remarkable range of topics. In addition to being a place to leave your own thoughts on a given topic, you naturally can leave comments on threads that other Thought Smash users have created.

One of the best things about Thought Smash is that the site is totally intuitive to navigate. Whether you want to simply look at opinions left by other people on any of the available topics or you can’t wait to broadcast your own opinions on the latest hit song, etc. it only takes a minute to interact with the site.

One thing that is necessary for a site like this to succeed is to have as many users as possible leaving comments as well as creating new thread topics on which they leave their thoughts. Thought Smash is a relatively new site but it already has multiple comments left on almost every thread that has been created so far. This leads me to believe that user adoption of the site is high and a community built around Thought Smash is well on its way to existence.

I would definitely suggest bookmarking the Thought Smash site as a fun new place to interact with people and make your voice heard. It’s a lot of fun to share and debate your thoughts with the world out there, and I predict that this site will catch on quickly. In terms of both the basic concept of the site as well as the execution of the idea, we here at The Weblog Review think Thought Smash is a winner. NULL

The Once Upon A Family website is an interesting and well-executed concept for a niche business that ingeniously addresses one of the pressing needs that most families have today: how to combine everyone’s busy lifestyles with the desire to slow down and document family traditions and family values, with the help of various tools and products from the Internet.

The creator of the site, Tiffany, calls herself a “family traditions consultant”, and has structured Once Upon A Family into sections that correspond to various periods in a family’s development, from young couples getting married and just starting out, to having children, all the way through to becoming grandparents.

Products offered on the site include everything from a ‘marriage survival kit’ and keepsakes for retired couples, to a baby hand prints book, a ‘while I’m away’ gift selection for couples separated by circumstances, and various attractive photo albums. Everything is tastefully presented, and the commercial aspect of the Once Upon A Family site is completely de-emphasized so that it feels much more like a website that a friend might create to feature family-related themes.

The site is built on Weebly, a blogging tool that is rapidly becoming more popular for people who are less interested in getting into the nuts and bolts of coding and simply want to create good-looking and functional sites such as Once Upon A Family. The general design of the photographs Tiffany taken has chosen is real high point of the site.

Tiffany has done a fine job on Once Upon A Family and I predict that she will see a big increase in visitors over time as people come looking for the kinds of family-related themes, keepsakes, mementos and gifts that she features. If you would like to refocus a little bit of your attention on the most important people in your life, I’d recommend taking a look at this attractive site.NULL

Esther, the creator of the My Ten Bucks website, states her mission very succinctly in one of the first posts on the site:

‘My vision for this blog is simple: to encourage regular people to take pride in their small donations, and make them carefully.’

Esther challenges the readers of My Ten Bucks To donate $10 every two weeks to the local charity of their choice, and to do a little more too; namely, get out and meet the people behind these worthy charities in an effort to know where your hard-earned donation will be going, and perhaps other ways in which you can help.

My Ten Bucks profiles different charities in Esther’s home state of Delaware, USA. And yes, she actually goes out and meets people doing the good work that it takes to keep charitable organizations going. As I looked through the website I found myself thinking that every locality needs someone like her and a site like My Ten Bucks to sing the praises of organizations that probably never get the recognition and attention they truly deserve. Who knows, maybe others will see this site and be inspired to create similar sites around local charities in their areas.

This attractive site was built on Blogspot using a blog format and features a really inspired header of dandelions being blown by the wind. New though it is, My Ten Bucks already has 14 followers on Facebook and I can only imagine that if Esther is as social media savvy as she is proficient in getting an attractive website together, that number should increase rapidly.

Even if you’re not from Delaware, a visit to this site might inspire you to do something similar for local charities wherever in the world you live. My Ten Bucks is an illustration of the saying “Think globally, act locally” and if you share that sentiment, why not drop by the site and be inspired?NULL