these tabs are always open on my laptop!!! ive recently entered into the world of perfume, which is so cool that you can basically just smell like anything. mondays i smell like lemons. wednesdays are mint and basil. fragrantica is basically just a catalog of almost every perfume and shows reviews, pros and cons, online listings, all the notes. you can sort perfumes by scents too and find similar perfumes to ones you already know. even if im not buying anything i just like to look at the pictures.
i do have a shopping addiction that i inherited from my mother which im trying to break, but her one rule was that she would always buy me a book if i asked for it. plus buying secondhand is so much cheaper and cooler!!! on thrift books, you can sort through all the copies they have a certain book, basically you can pick out what cover speaks to you the most. and most stuff is very cheap, you can also sort by condition, i love a good beat up book.
the creative independent is a blog? (i guess in a sense) that interviews creative people almost daily and categorizes the interviews into different areas of the creative process; i.e., āmaking time for creative workā, ādeveloping a creative processā, ārunning a businessā, and ābecoming an artistā. they talk to some big names along with niche guys, iāve discovered a lot of cool art and such through the interviewees. i love the nicole mclaughlin interview
are.na is basically pinterest but aimed towards design students, which im not, but i do enjoy the structure of it more over pinterest, you do only get a certain number of āblocksā (pins) before having to pay a subscription, i do believe students get it for free tho!