Top 150 Makers Blog List (Kunst)

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There are hundreds of great inspiring and creative blogs to read, but do you ever wonder which blogs everyone else is reading? I do, which is why I have compiled a list of the top 150 design, inspiration, and DIY blogs – I call them all Makers.

1 Apartment Therapy, 2 Craft Zine,
3 Decor8, 4 swissmiss, 5 Booooooom, 6 A Cup of Jo,
7 re-nest, 8 How About Orange, 9 Oh Joy, 10 Purl Bee, 11 Desire to Inspire,
12 Centsational Girl,
13 SFGirlbybay, 14 Style Files, 15 Design Sponge, 16 Soule Mama,
17 Creature Comforts, 18 Design Mom
19 Not Martha
20 The Crafts Dept, 21 Anna Maria
22 coco+kelley, 23 Design Milk, 24 grain edit, 25 Angry Chicken
26 Rockstar Diaries
27 A Beautiful Mess, 28 Design for Mankind
29 Graphic Exchange, 30 Posie Gets Cozy, 31 Hello My Name is Heather
32 Black Eiffel, 33 Eat Drink Chic 34 print + pattern Bowie Style
35 Inchmark, 36 Removed on request
37 Oh Happy Day Jordan Ferney 126,123 13,902 6 13,981 15,132
38 Bloesem Irene Hoofs 145,869 1,750 5 8,948 179,140
39 Made by Girl Jen Ramos 105,719 11,369 3 16,134 352,266
40 Design is Mine Summer Allen 319,507 2,892 5 11,335 181,675
41 Twig & Thistle Kathleen 165,303 21,354 4 7,712 86,988
42 Maya Made Maya Donenfeld 314,911 4,902 5 7,072 117,710
43 Say Yes to Hoboken Liz Stanley 190,123 12,094 5 5,572 39,058
44 Design Work Life Courtney 92,000 8,488 5 2,791 69,858
45 Sweet Paul Paul Lowe 215,643 6,500 5 5,958 54,564
46 Geninne’s Art Blog Geninne 559,716 2,686 5 8,191 179,788
47 Design Public Various 81,395 5,346 5 2,657 66,065
48 Day Dream Lily Liss 430,259 2,227 5 6,804 99,740
49 Bleubird Vintage Miss James 143,975 4,828 5 7,498 32,681
50 Bliss Traci French 513,763 2,274 5 6,081 117,192
51 For Me, For You Kate Miss 265,569 1,587 6 3,432 105,584
52 Rifle Paper Co Anna Bond 1,803 2,486 5 3,465 38,475
53 Modish Jena 275,652 5,621 5 4,024 54,379
54 The City Sage Anne Sage 156,998 6,259 4 4,932 98,133
55 Dottie Angel Tif Fussell 333,513 9,553 4 5,200 135,129
56 My Sweet Savannah Melaine Thompson 547,939 17,091 4 5,922 101,809
57 Mint Design Blog Ellie 284,592 4,192 6 2,395 90,697
58 Wise Craft Blair Stocker 657,006 8,722 5 12,538 42,490
59 StephModo Stephanie 276,356 5,261 5 4,114 52,518
60 A Little Sussy Nicole Hill Gerulat 405,175 5,103 5 5,263 51,803
61 Design Crush Kelly Beall 196,061 16,826 5 1,399 51,536
62 Ritzy Bee Various 397,260 2,877 5 4,594 61,127
63 Under the Sycamore Ashley Campbell 141,723 20,942 4 6,331 26,474
64 Zakka Life Jessica Okui 213,533 21,387 4 3,674 53,378
65 Dude Craft Paul Overton 291,290 8,600 5 3,223 44,012
66 Smile and Wave Rachel Denbow 327,485 10,219 4 7,316 56,100
67 A Field Journal Livy 684,522 3,029 5 5,257 78,964
68 Unruly Things Alyson Graves Brown 422,937 880 5 4,431 111,586
69 pia jane bijkerk pia jane bijkerk 321,770 0 5 3,692 123,882
70 A Little Hut Patricia Zapata 609,729 11,843 5 2,654 63,117
71 Whip Up Kathreen Ricketson 116,540 50,704 5 1,063 25,457
72 Paper n Stitch Brittni 210,809 12,331 4 2,583 76,594
73 Lena Corwin Lena Corwin 491,698 0 6 4,256 98,105
74 Alisa Burke Alisa Burke 409,830 14,547 4 4,966 44,014
75 Wee Wonderfuls Hillary Lang 953,665 6,845 5 2,820 94,092
76 frolic! Chelsea Fuss 527,843 1,894 5 4,534 83,799
77 Automatism Lori Langille 500,098 0 5 3,759 82,199
78 Amy Atlas Amy Atlas 156,801 12,384 0 3,998 55,078
79 SimpleSong Suann Song 591,093 1,766 5 3,766 54,361
80 Camilla Engman Camilla Engman 890,482 0 5 4,500 195,974
81 DesignLoveFest Brieanne Paige 178,707 5,520 4 3,405 45,184
82 Fryd Design Jeanette Lunde 574,436 0 5 3,248 123,933
83 Uppercase Janine Vangool 416,747 6,024 5 2,165 40,866
84 Darling Dexter Whitney Deal 881,093 1,901 5 3,427 68,700
85 All the Mountains Amy 1,067,315 1,661 6 3,201 81,658
86 Oh So Beautiful Paper Nole Garey 134,972 11,222 2 2,379 67,327
87 The Small Object Sarah Neuburger 945,385 6,264 5 2,923 53,651
88 3191 Stephanie & Mav 715,682 0 8 2,391 173,573
89 Oh Hello Friend Danni Hong 161,923 34,207 0 3,336 36,815
90 Where the Lovely Things Are Mallory 441,427 2,253 5 2,799 38,824
91 Aesthetic Outburst Abbey Hendrickson 848,883 12,584 5 3,064 19,843
92 Hula Seventy Andrea Jenkins 998,741 1,115 5 3,456 95,826
93 Apartment #34 Erin Hiemstra 257,039 2,350 3 4,520 67,654
94 Pikaland Amy Ng 401,968 1,322 5 2,546 43,069
95 handmade charlotte Charlotte 360,385 8,108 5 1,239 29,543
96 ban.do Various 193,228 10,407 5 462 14,089
97 Heart of Light Rachel Grace 752,494 1,617 5 3,228 46,176
98 Wiksten Made Jenny Gordy 635,425 358 5 4,736 35,132
99 The Lil Bee Melissa 726,851 422 5 2,423 71,497
100 The Neo-Traditionalist Katie Armour 209,421 9,558 4 246 65,290
101 Pugly Pixel Katrina 245,043 6,947 4 2,205 36,732
102 Here’s Looking At Me Kid Amanda Johnson 610,790 4,587 5 2,583 22,566
103 Fine Little Day Elisabeth Dunker 479,375 2,728 5 1,848 29,502
104 The Scoop Various 635,856 8,914 5 2,884 3,188
105 Forty-Sixth at Grace Nikole 1,572,289 635 5 3,344 65,731
106 Seesaw Designs Various 739,608 860 5 4,293 28,943
107 The Crafting Chicks Various 248,044 26,545 0 3,552 13,353
108 Olivet Mary Stonecypher 1,803 0 5 682 18,219
109 IS LY Melissa Esplin 258,779 10,649 3 3,594 19,556
110 A Print a Day Yasmine Surovec 1,581,796 4,042 4 4,460 62,848
111 Lovely Design Sharilyn 758,014 1,403 4 4,250 57,942
112 A Spoonful of Sugar Various 1,422,041 7,007 4 2,698 60,762
113 Going Home to Roost Bonnie 516,630 27,367 4 1,115 24,081
114 doe c doe Gina 1,948,823 2,862 5 1,995 45,813
115 Sweet Fine Day Jenna and Mark 480,185 1,510 5 1,470 19,574
116 Concrete and Honey Nikola Brooke 1,426,047 1,928 5 2,014 37,544
117 Make it Do Calli 434,613 17,646 0 925 53,768
118 Lovely Clusters Rachel Follett 694,731 975 4 3,329 50,984
119 Tangled and True Brittany 2,015,283 1,990 5 1,375 49,129
120 Simple + Pretty Jane 938,713 1,436 5 1,355 38,131
121 A Room Somewhere Leslie 1,192,130 11,998 4 2,181 29,887
122 Bright Bazaar Will 558,425 0 4 2,488 57,811
123 A Creative Mint Leslie 422,747 0 4 3,029 34,520
124 Please Sir Diana Martini 1,426,241 0 5 2,035 62,562
125 Housemartin Ink & Peat 832,078 0 5 2,012 35,654
126 Marta Writes Marta Dansie 500,529 4,981 4 1,948 15,394
127 Abby Try Again Abby Powell 869,300 1,740 4 2,944 31,110
128 Freshlyblended Nicole 1,618,598 0 5 2,287 49,934
129 Shim + Sons Sally Shim 1,283,755 0 4 5,815 38,971
130 Color Collective Lauren Willhite 573,686 0 4 3,047 28,659
131 Happiness Is… Shannon Eileen 342,717 3,681 4 1,238 9,676
132 Miss Moss Diana 202,038 0 3 1,263 36,893
133 Wren Handmade Laura Normandin 1,397,475 1,825 4 2,107 30,690
134 Thompson Family Danielle Thompson 576,306 9,644 0 2,617 1,650
135 The Bedlam of Beefy Bradford 1,106,962 0 4 1,721 55,105
136 You are My Fave Melanie Blodgett 332,793 5,511 0 1,297 7,163
137 Welcome to the Good Sarah Choi 614,852 7,266 2 2,218 1,789
138 Wit + Delight Kate Arends 449,675 449 4 2,101 328
139 Sarah Jane, 140 Aesthetic Nest, 141 Kickcan & Conkers, 142 Design Shimmer
143 Design Therapy, 144 Sandra Juto
145 Two Straight Lines
146 B for Bonnie
147 Stylizimo
148 The Jealous Curator, 149 Domestifluff
150 Chez Larsson

LEGEND
Alexa Rank
Alexa’s traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users and data collected from other, diverse sources over a rolling 3 month period. A site’s ranking is based on a combined measure of reach and pageviews. Reach is determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day. Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site. However, multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are counted as a single pageview. The site with the highest combination of users and pageviews is ranked #1.
Compete Visitors
The number of unique visitors that visited the website in August 2010 according to Compete.
Google PageRank
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important.”
Google Reader Subscribers
The number of Google Reader users that subscribe to each blog. Note: this is not total RSS subscribers but rather how many Google Reader users subscribe to each blog.
Yahoo Inlinks
The number of links going to a blog’s entire site but excluding all self-linking links.

HOW THE LIST IS COMPUTED
1. Several hundred blogs are reviewed in a preliminary screening to determine if their statistics are competitive enough to be ranked.
2. 225 blogs were selected to be ranked.
3. Data is collected for each blog from all 5 measured criteria (i.e., Alexa Rank, Compete Visitors, Google PageRank, Google Reader Subscribers, and Yahoo Inlinks).
4. For each of the 5 measured criteria, each blog is ranked in comparison to all other blogs being evaluated.
5. A composite rank for each blog is determined by averaging each blogs ranking from the 5 measured criteria.
6. The top blogs are published.


The blogs are measured and ranked based on 5 criteria (Alexa rank, Compete traffic, Google Pagerank, Google Reader subscribers, Yahoo! inlinks). Scroll down to the bottom of the list to see specifics on how the list was compiled.

This list certainly isn’t perfect. Each of the 5 criteria have their quirks. However, I do think this mashup is a step in the right direction of creating better lists. Because of these quirks, one blogger has requested to be removed from the rankings, which is noted in the list.

I tried to scour and dig for the most popular sites out there, but it’s nearly impossible to know about them all. By all means, if you don’t see a blog on the list that you think should be there, please email me at info at evie-s.com

Have fun browsing! I’m sure you will find a bunch of blogs you didn’t know about.