Here are some great holiday-related posts from this past week around b5media’s Lifestyle channel. In case you’re looking for other cool blogs to check out (whether artsy, crafty, all about home, etc.), read on:
Kettle & Cup asks if Starbucks Limited Edition is worth $26 a pound. (I love coffee, so it’s tough for me to say no!)
All Holiday Cafe spills the beans on what happens when kids make their own gingerbread house kits (what happens is cuteness)
Jewelry and Beading has a neat post on how to make rosary beads
Tangled Thread shares how she made her own Christmas ornaments and sewed sequins on for finishing
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If you have your own blog or Flickr page, you might want to take better photos. There are a ton of knitting blogs out there and some of the most popular and memorable contain gorgeous photography.
Light is a big factor in taking great pictures, but you can’t always rely on natural sunlight. What if you have a rainy week? What if you don’t get home to take photos until it’s dark?
I found this tutorial on how to take detailed photos of your knitting. It shows you how to make a lightbox and how to use your camera to your best …read more

When Ravelry hit the craft scene, it caused a sensation. There was some controversy (it was “clique-y”, why did you have to be invited in, etc.), but it has definitely changed the online world of knitting and crocheting.
While there was some buzzing that Ravelry led to the demise of some craft blogs, that may have happened to some bloggers anyway. Blogging is still evolving, after all. What Ravelry did kill for me was my knitting journal.
A few years back, I bought this nifty little journal and I treated it like my knitting diary of sorts. I recorded what I wanted to …read more