Voting is Open for the Homeschool Blog Awards!

Voting for this years Homeschool Blog Awards is now open!!  Now go vote for your favorite unschooling blogs.  Go on! ;-) Also, my blog was nominated in the Best Homeschool Methods blog category, and I want to thank whoever nominated me! :-)

This is by no means a complete list, but here are some blogs, listed in the category they're nominated in, that I know to be by unschoolers.

Best Homeschool Mom blog:
SwissArmyWife
Mrs. Hannigan’s Home for Girls

Best Homeschool Dad blog:

Just a Bald Man

Best Blog Design:
Soule Mama

Best Photos and Artistic Content:
The Organic Sister

Best Crafts, Plans & Projects blog:
5 Orange Potatoes (I think she's an unschooler? But not sure...)
Journey Into Unschooling
Ordinary Life Magic

Best Homeschool Methods blog:
I'm Unschooled. Yes, I Can Write.
Journey Into Unschooling

Best Homemaking Blog:

Sensible Living

Best Curriculum or Business blog:
Life Learning Magazine

Best Variety blog:
Kelly Hogaboom

I feel like these awards are a good place for those interested in homeschooling but not necessarily aware of unschooling to discover blogs that can help them understand the later life philosophy...  I just see it as a good way for unschooling to get a bit more publicity in the homeschooling community.  The more the better, in my opinion!  

My blog is nominated in the Homeschool Blog Awards!

Guess what? Guess what? I'm nominated in the category of Best Teen Girl Blog in the Homeschool Blog Awards!! I am very flattered, and want to give a hearty THANKS to the peeps who nominated me! I greatly appreciate it. :-)

Oh, oh, and you should DEFINITELY check out the Best Unschooling Blog category! There are soo many wonderful blogs on that list that I had trouble choosing which one to vote for...

EDIT: After I'd already posted this, I discovered another unschooling blog hidden in a different category, and that was Eli Gerzon's Worldschooler Blog, in the Current Events, Opinions or Politics category. Go vote for that too! ;-)

Anyway, thanks again! *Happily dances off*

Peace,
Idzie

Lemonade awards!

Ages ago I was given the Lemonade award by Linda of Amy's journey - unschooling through high school. Thanks so much Linda! :-) The award is for blogs with "attitude and/or gratitude" and recipients are then asked to pass the award on to 10 other blogs. Now, this is really hard for me! I follow around 70 blogs, and I really do read most of them most of the time! I love reading about other peoples experiences, opinions, everyday happenings in their lives... But I'm going to try and narrow it down to the ones I read right away when I see that there's a new post, the ones that I frequent most often, lately... So here they are!

Sheila of Always Exploring. One of my best friends-that-I-have-never-actually-"met", Sheila is a fellow "grown unschooler" who writes beautifully and with passion about such diverse subjects as music, spirituality, natural childbirth, and simply what's going on in her life.

Eli of Eli Gerzon's Worldschooler Blog. Written by a grown unschooler/worldschooler who now leads travel tours for unschoolers to various interesting places, this wonderful blog discusses unschooling, worldschooling, world travel, and similarly fascinating things.

Danya of Made of Carbon. Danya finished public high school, but having learned about unschooling, decided that, for one year, she would follow that lifestyle, and see what happened! I greatly enjoy reading about her journey.

Michelle of Natural Attachment. A marvelous blog by an anarchist radical unschooling mom, that talks about (and shows in lovely pictures) their day to day life, as well as discussing various aspects of radical unschooling.

Stella of Not an Ordinary Teen. No matter how bad a day I've had, Stella can make me laugh! Stella is an unschooling teen who's passionate about dance, and her blog is always a joy to read.

PS Pirro of Over the Wall. An unschooling green anarchist mom and author of 101 Reasons Why I'm an Unschooler, I love reading this very political, and very well written, blog.

Andrea of Saying Yes 2 Boys. It's strange to say, but this blog almost makes me feel like I'm a kid again! Chronicling the adventures of a radical unschooling family with younger kids, I just love to see all of the adventures they go on, and the freedom and joy in the boys faces.

James of How I Learn Stuff. Unschooling dad and author of Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar, I love his very logical and very respectful approach to things.

Anna of Adversarian. Written by an unschooling teen and dealing almost exclusively with unschooling and learning in general, this blog is quite enjoyable.

Majikfaerie. It's rather strange to say, but I don't know her name! What I do know is that she's a world traveling unschooling mom, and I LOVE reading about (and seeing in photo's) the places she goes and things she does.

So there you have it! I hope you enjoy the blogs listed above. :-)

Peace,
Idzie