This week’s Best of the Web: Be @ Home comes during a heat wave for our California-based office. For those of us allergic to tanning, there’s no better time than right now to stay in your air conditioned abode and create things! Just let your creative juices flow when perusing through our blog picks. Our featured scrapbookers, jewelry-makers, graphic designers and more will put you in a do-it-yourself frenzy!

We start with a DIY blog that proves, even with limited budget, that  there is so much that can be designed and created.

Sweet Something Design is a DIY design blog dedicated to creating a well designed home with a small budget. Its blog creator Michelle emphasizes on DIY projects, home decor, crafts, tutorials and tablescapes.

Meet a creative mom who is an artist and does things that inspire. Evie S. is is a blog about art, motherhood, creativity, living a beautifully purposeful life and giving to others.

Blue Mountain Daisy is a journal of blogger Rachaeldaisy’s adventures in sewing, with other things thrown in for fun. Rachael started the blog with the idea of recording her progress with quilting. She is enjoying her ride documenting her creations and blogging.

Felicity had to share this about her blog Felicity Quilts: “I absolutely love what blogging has brought to my life: new friends, a fresh and modern outlook on my hobby of quilting, a means of sharing my work and getting feedback, and so much more. It has been stepping into the fabulous world of modern quilt guilds, online quilting bees, photo sharing and a huge blogging community.”

The Vintage Sheets blog “started as a way to chronicle my crafting, thrifting and family adventures,” says its creator Jennifer, and quickly evolved into a place for vintage sheet lovers for inspiration.

What is it about vintage sheets that attracted this blogger? Besides being inexpensive, Jennifer confesses that the sheets evoke nostalgia for her childhood: “The colors are so pretty and muted and the sheets are usually so soft and faded to perfection.” To find vintage sheets, she advises to “look at the thrift stores, garage and state sales, [and to] look for tags that say Percale.”

We asked Jennifer to choose a favorite tutorial, and after much deliberation, she chose this: Vintage Sheet Wrapped Wreath Tutorial by Jeni B of In color Order.

From her blog He{ART}, Wilna shared this with us: ” I am a graphic designer and have been working in the scrapbook industry for the past five years. On my blog, I share my personal journey in scrapbook design (the art part) and I also love to share the unforced rhythms of grace in my life (the heart part).”

Take a peek into the unique line of beautiful jewelry designs by Maureen of Cosmo’s Moon. Cosmo’s Moon, explains this crafty blogger, gets its name from her son and her astronomer husband.  Maureen creates earthy, eclectic handmade jewelry in her desert garden studio in Tucson, Arizona. Maureen writes about the ins and outs of creative metalsmithing, business practices for metalsmiths, life in the Sonoran desert and her many trips to her husband’s hometown of Florence, Italy.

Michigan-based artist Teresa created the blog Teresa’s Creative Whims to help others get to know the person behind the art, and to share her latest works of art. Theresa hopes to connect to others on a more personal way through anecdotes of family life, by sharing memories and interests, and offering advice and inspiration.

-Namita