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In case you’re new here, this is the deal with “favorite threes”: instead of a traditional blog roll (which would be miles long at this point!) I feature three of my favorite blog reads each month. Sometimes they are new finds, and others are old favorites. I hope you’ll add them to your reader, too!

Afternoon Delight is a blog written by Kate Arends, a graphic designer working in Minneapolis. Among other things, she likes avocados, distance running, sock monkeys, hip-hop, estate sales, and scotch. But she’s also really good at finding cool stuff, and I’ve been especially impressed with her recent wedding design work. {update: kate’s decided to change her blog name to Wit + Delight, but the links are the same!}

Eco-stylista is an eco-conscious design & lifestyle blog updated 3-4 times daily. Like Afternoon Delight, the photos are small, but that makes scanning through to find your favorites a lot easier. (Click on images for the large versions).

Share Some Candy is a gallery-like blog (one image & no text per post) started by Reuben Miller and Yael Miller with a killer set of curators. The posts on here are a great mix of things you’ve never seen before, favorites that have been making the blog rounds already, and occasional updates from everybody’s “old favorite” designers and artists. I find something to bookmark each time I visit.

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You can see past blog favorites in the archives. And, in case you forget which blogs are being featured, scroll down the right-hand sidebar and you’ll see their banners displayed for the whole month. Thanks for being awesome, you three!

photo credits: 1. elle decoration uk found via, 2. Gary Harvey found via, 3. if you could on flickr found via