Pour yourself a glass of champagne and head over to Fashion.net, where you'll find links to sites about fashion, designers, art, photography, design, magazines, blogs, books, travel, shopping, music and more! 

Head over to All Things Girl with a cup of coffee and a croissant and be inspired!  P.S.  They want your submissions too!

A couple of great finds in the Wall Street Journal:

* A recent article about artists selling their wares online, and

* 15 Entrepreneur Blogs Worth Reading

Enjoy! 

Have you seen the Links page over at the Squam Art Workshops website?  Grab a cup of coffee and head over there for some mega-inspiration! 

Art and Letter - the beautiful online magazine devoted to art, design & architecture - has just be re-vamped and is up and running!  Visit this site for inspiring interviews and other goodies.

I read an article about Randy Pausch many weeks ago and haven't been able to stop thinking about.  Trying to make the most of his final days as well as impart wisdom to his children and the world, this is Mondo Beyondo, bittersweet inspiration.

Have a very wonderful weekend.

[Flowers in Joshua Tree, taken last week] 

This Ordinary Day - a new blog created by eight creative souls from all over the country - just launched.  Bookmark this site and see watch this wonderful blog grow!

"...it's the ordinary things in this world that make it worth living. The good stuff is all around us, everywhere we look, just waiting to be noticed. Appreciated. Celebrated. Maybe, just maybe, if we take a moment and think about the ordinary life we're all living, we'll realize it's the best thing anyone in this world has going, because it's simple and it's beautiful and it is wholly ours."  -Sammi, This Ordinary Day

Out My Window NYC is a fascinating blog...read on:

"Gail Albert Halaban, photographer, in collaboration with the Design Trust for Public Space is working on a documentary photography project about people and their views in New York City and beyond."  -OMWNYC blog 

...someone new is telling me about A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle.  You can also see lectures and discussions based on the book over on a little website you may have heard of called Oprah... 

Peter Gabriel is one of my heroes.  His groundbreaking videos and powerful music makes me wish he spent more time in the recording studio, but I love to see artists push their boundaries and choose to explore rather than stay on the safe and familar path.  You can read about his latest project - The Filter - here.  It isn't available for the Mac yet, but as soon as it is I'll be checking it out.

To do list:

Buy artwork - check

Read an inspiring blog - check

Make a difference - check

Find something fun to do in San Francisco* - check

Read another inspiring blog - check

Live vicariously through a European traveler - check 

Be inspired - check 

Thank you Kate Swoboda! 

* I don't live there, but I love to visit!

I love what David Horvitz is up to on his website - small creative acts in everyday life.

[Johanna Reed]

These are just a few images from This is That, a blog described as "...postings....about instances of beauty, intellect, hilarity, and/or oddity in my periphery."

[Estelle Hanania]

If you're in the mood to browse the websites and blogs of artists, designers, photographers and the like, this is your
one-stop shop.

[Adrien Missika]

A few articles from across the world wide web on creativity & the creative process.  I've included the title of each article and the website where it lives...enjoy!

The Creative Process :: A List Apart website

 The Creative Process in Eight Stages :: The Huffington Post

How the Creative Process Works :: Creative Latitude 

The Creative Route to your Authentic Self :: Creativity Portal

Creating Soul Spaces :: Sunny Schlenger

...and a few from Creating Minds:

Blocks to Creativity

Creating a Creative Climate

Creative Workspaces

Culture and Creativity 

...you get sent to The Cool Hunter, one of your weekly links this week.  Super-freaky, n'est pas?  I didn't even realize they had an entire section devoted to architecture, but I must say their selections are the epitome of COOL.

Let's have a martini with three olives and listen to Dean Martin on our refurbished hi-fi.

Then we'll head to the neighbor's house to catch a film.  It's all cool, daddy-o. 

Head on over to Real Simple's website for a selection of lovely, inspiring computer wallpapers... 

This lovely blogger left a comment on this entry yesterday with a link to this fabulous website for Hope Revolution.  I love this!

Design Spotter wants your designs!

"DESIGNSPOTTER.com is always interested in fresh, wild and unusual things. What about you? Do you share the approach? Then convince us with your stuff and we will feed our thousands of daily design-addicts. Just follow the instructions here."  

I found out about this wonderful, inspiring, easy-to-get-lost-in website - Inspiration Boards - this week and I can't get enough of it!  Here are just a few of the colorful glimpses into some of the creative spaces shared on this blog.

What's on your inspiration board today? 

I hope you aren't beginning to think, "Enough about India!" but I'm on a roll here so I'm going with it!  Plus I am being given lovely links by my India connection Nina McConigley and I can't resist sharing them here.  Her latest offering was for An Indian Summer - "Presenting selected ideas, artifacts, and design that is aesthetic and inspiring, transforming a house into a home across the world, with special focus on Asia and India."  Inspiring indeed!