The TED Blog: Telling Stories, Spreading Ideas

This week, TED’s summer conference,

Customizing Koi: 129 Twig & Vine

The past several months, we’ve highlighted a number of sites that use some of the popular free themes available on WordPress.com — Oxygen , Bueno , and

Customizing Comet: Beau and Arrow Events

Who doesn’t love “Before and After” home improvement shots? It’s always amazing to see how just a couple of changes, like a coat of paint or a quick do-it-yourself project, can transform a living space dramatically. It’s no different when it comes to WordPress.com blog themes, in which a little customization can go a long way

New Themes: Handmade, Untitled, and On a Whim

Theme Thursday is here, and I’m excited to announce the three fantastic new themes we’ve wrangled for you this week. Handmade Handmade is a beautiful retro-styled blogging theme for foodies and crafters, designed with love by the folks at Obox Themes . Focusing on an amazing attention to detail and gorgeous typography, everything in Handmade has had hours of attention poured into it

Customizing Sight: distraction no. 99

Customizing your blog’s theme is one way to show off what makes you you. Young adult novelist Nova Ren Suma does a beautiful job of this at distraction no.

Showcase Your Property with a Hotel Site

If you want to promote your hotel, inn, or bed & breakfast with a stylish and functional website that looks and works great on mobile devices, look no further than WordPress.com/hotels . An online property for your property You’ve worked hard to create a comfortable home-away-from-home for your guests, and now, we can set you up with an online home to help keep your “No Vacancy” light burning brightly.

New Themes: Full Frame and Ryu

Image lovers and creative bloggers unite! Two new themes have launched today that I think you all will absolutely go gaga over. Full Frame , designed and developed by Graph Paper Press , is a single column, full-width theme for showcasing your beautiful images, galleries, and videos from edge to edge. It’s responsive and adapts to different screen sizes so that your website will work (and be optimized for) iPhones, iPads, Android and other mobile devices.

New Themes: Little Story, Scrollider Express, and Pachyderm

Howdy all! We have a bunch of awesome new themes for you today, so let’s dive right in. First up is Little Story, a premium theme with design elements and inspiration from the talented Laura Amiss . Little Story supports several post formats in different styles, large featured images on Sticky posts, a mobile-friendly layout (including a collapsible footer widget area), social network icons for Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, and an option to add author information after single posts

Blogger Profile: Poet and Author Kellie Elmore

Kellie Elmore We’re thrilled that American poet and author Kellie Elmore has made WordPress.com her home on the web. A Southerner at heart, Kellie grew up in a small town and is inspired by love and loss, nature, and “the humble surroundings of her backyard” of Southeast Tennessee.  Kellie’s debut collection of poetry and prose,  Magic in the Backyard ,   has been nominated for the prestigious  Pushcart Prize , and her new book, Jagged Little Pieces , will be released this Wednesday.  We talked to Kellie about her new book, her site design, and why she chose WordPress.com for her official website. Can you tell us about Jagged Little Pieces ?

In the Spotlight: Bloggers on Fashion

The world’s designers recently presented their new looks on catwalks from New York to Paris during Fashion Week, so I decided to hunt through the closet — err, browse the WordPress.com community — for some eye-catching fashion blogs that not only stay on top of the trends du jour, but customize their themes to reflect their own personal styles. Today, let’s shine the spotlight on these blogs: Brooklyn Bliss Brooklyn Bliss Corrie created Brooklyn Bliss  as a personal blog, which has since transformed into a popular site for fashion, design, and vegan lifestyle, focused on vegan-friendly and cruelty-free products. Corrie has really made the site her own, customizing Bueno in cool ways.

In the Spotlight: Bloggers on Fashion

The world’s designers recently presented their new looks on catwalks from New York to Paris during Fashion Week, so I decided to hunt through the closet — err, browse the WordPress.com community — for some eye-catching fashion blogs that not only stay on top of the trends du jour, but customize their themes to reflect their own personal styles. Today, let’s shine the spotlight on these blogs: Brooklyn Bliss Brooklyn Bliss Corrie created Brooklyn Bliss  as a personal blog, which has since transformed into a popular site for fashion, design, and vegan lifestyle, focused on vegan-friendly and cruelty-free products. Corrie has really made the site her own, customizing Bueno in cool ways.

New Themes: Photographer, Superhero, and Sidekick

We’re bringing you some action-packed fun on this Threeme Day ! Photographer’s home page template First up, we’re bringing you a gorgeous new premium theme from our friends at Organic Themes .  Photographer features a beautifully minimal design with a focus on photography. It’s a professional portfolio and photo blogging solution for serious photographers and artists. The theme features the ability to create endless slideshows and portfolios, and is sure to satisfy the website needs of all shutterbugs

New Themes: Blocco, Crafty, and Hustle Express

I’ve officially decided that any day with three theme launches occurring at the same time will henceforth no longer be known as Theme Day but Threeme Day! Yes, I took it there. Now sit back, relax, and enjoy threese — I mean these — latest additions to our ever-growing collection of themes on WordPress.com. First up is Blocco, by Press75 .

New Theme: Further

Today, we’re very proud to present a new premium theme that offers all of the features you’d typically find in a magazine theme, while taking it one step Further Further: with featured content, featured images, pull quotes, and recent posts by format Further, our latest premium magazine theme, masterfully designed by our very own  Takashi Irie  offers all of the traditional features you’d expect, in a feature-full, sleek, modern, and beautifully crafted design. This theme is ideal for professional web publishers or content-heavy websites.

Transform Your Site with a Custom Background

Recently, I highlighted blogs and websites displaying custom colors and custom fonts , which you can enable on your own site with a  Custom Design upgrade. Today, let’s look at a free way to easily transform your site: a custom background . If chosen carefully, a custom background can reveal a lot about your site’s focus, as well as your overall aesthetic.

A Look at Painters with Portfolios

Recently, Michelle announced the launch of WordPress.com/portfolios . If you take photographs, record music and video, illustrate and paint, or design things, you can build a portfolio here on WordPress.com, using one of our  portfolio themes .

Restaurants Whet Your Appetite on WordPress.com

Last year we launched wordpress.com/restaurants , giving restaurants the ability to quickly and easily build a site with menus, maps and directions, an OpenTable reservations widget, and more, along with an elegant new free theme . Since then, we’ve seen restaurants from venerable favorites to underground supper clubs using WordPress.com to entice customers with websites as beautiful as their signature dishes.

Customizing Oxygen: BeatRoute Magazine

Earlier this month, during Responsive Theme week , Cheri highlighted BeatRoute , a Canadian alt-monthly focusing on local music. We (and you) were impressed by how BeatRoute made the free  Oxygen theme their own, so we thought we’d dig a little deeper into the ways they’re taking advantage of Oxygen’s many features to create a bold, easy-to-navigate online magazine. Let’s take a look at the standard Oxygen layout and BeatRoute’s home page side by side: You can see that Beatroute is using many of Oxygen’s standard features, like the home page slider and custom menus, but with tweaks to make it their own

Customizing Oxygen: BeatRoute Magazine

Earlier this month, during Responsive Theme week , Cheri highlighted BeatRoute , a Canadian alt-monthly focusing on local music. We (and you) were impressed by how BeatRoute made the free  Oxygen theme their own, so we thought we’d dig a little deeper into the ways they’re taking advantage of Oxygen’s many features to create a bold, easy-to-navigate online magazine. Let’s take a look at the standard Oxygen layout and BeatRoute’s home page side by side: You can see that Beatroute is using many of Oxygen’s standard features, like the home page slider and custom menus, but with tweaks to make it their own.

BEAUTY IS BORING

SOURCE: BEAUTYISBORING My most recent source of beauty inspiration is Beauty is Boring .

ONE, TWO, THREE, WASH

VINTAGE TOP ZARA PANTS DEENA & OZZY SHOES M.A.C. RUBY WOO LIPSTICK So here’s a minor photo spam that has been long in the making.

AFTER WORK

VINTAGE SHIRT LUX JEANS PENNYBLACK BAG BIANCO STILETTOS So, good news everyone!! I did some research on the error my camera had, and came to this forum where a guy said he’d just given his camera a good smack and it worked again. So after some tough love on my camera, it started working!! Turned out my shutter had been stuck. Here’s my outfit from today with some colour blocking included

FEATURED BY ELLE

PHOTO BY ADAM KATZ SINDING for ELLE.com During CPHFW the incredibly talented (and just genuinely awesome) Adam Katz Sinding stopped me to take my photo for ELLE . He takes some amazing shots, so I highly recommend you see the other photos he took for ELLE ‘s website and on his site Le 21ème. For those who follow me on MY FACEBOOK , you will probably already have seen this photo.

Opdateret pakkeliste til Roskilde Festival 2012

Sidste år begik vi en pakke-/huskeliste til årets Roskilde Festival, og den er netop opdateret med flere forslag til, hvad man bør overveje at medbringe til festivalpladsen. Kan læses her: Pakkeliste/huskeliste til Roskilde Festival.

BLOGGER’S WARDROBE

(Frida Gustavsson for Tiger of Sweden ) A while back, I discovered Blogger’s Wardrobe – an online community where leading bloggers and brands can come together and cooperate, combining the best from both. The best way to describe it is, that it’s like and online wardrobe featured with clothes from amazing brands such as Gaia , Minimarket and Tiger of Sweden

Framboise Fashion Expands! NEW STREETSTYLE BLOG!

Arrived in London safe and sound. Thank you for all your lovely comments towards my trip! Wanted to make a quick post on something that I’ve been dying to tell you; I’ve started a street style website! I’m SO excited!! It’s been up for a while, but since I’m quite new with Wordpress, I’ve been trying to figure it out. It’s still not where I want it to be – it’s missing a bloglovin page and the margin is not quite right yet, but have patience with my newly developed CSS skills.

Modebevægelsen går i dvale

Du har sikkert bemærket det. At der ikke sker det store her på Modebevægelsen længere. Der er ikke længere diskussioner som krig i kommentarfeltet og Kære blogger, i dag vil jeg ikke være sød ved dig. Eller debatter, der trak over 70 kommentarer — fx Hvor billige tror I egentligt, at vi er? Og der har ingen navneafsløringsskandaler [...]

Et kig på SS12-sko med Mildh Press

      PR-bureaurne har i disse dage åbnet dørene for pressen og viser næste års sommerkollektion. Særligt fint var det hos Mildh PRs skoafdeling, hvor sommerens sko både var kantede, farverige og fyldt med design. Som der kan ses ovenfor og på det midterste billede, skal der ifølge det engelsk/hollandske mærke United Nude ikke [...]

Hvad er en bloggers ord værd?

Den danske blogosfære — på tværs af områder som musik, mad og mode — gennemgår i disse år en transformation. Uskylden er væk. Det, der engang var hyggelige samtaler mellem veninder på samme niveau, er blevet asymmetriske relationer mellem medier og læsere. Blogmediet er ved at blive kommercialiseret — og professionaliseret. Et af de tydligste [...]

Indtag et magisk efterår med Magic Mountains efterårskollektion

Silke med new age inspireret print lavet af Sanne Frank kan findes på flere af efterårskollektionens styles. Magic Mountain fejrede i samarbejde med I Do Art og U.S. Imports i går lanceringen af Magic Mountains efterårs- og vinterkollektion. Kollektionen, som er inspireret af new age-filosofi og spiritualitet, består af tøj i naturlige materialer som uld [...]