Kyle Hepp

May 30, 2011

Thanks to Trop50 for sponsoring my writing about fabulous bloggers. This year Trop50 is granting 50 Fabulous Wishes. Click here to enter for a chance to win $1,000 to celebrate a friend with a refreshing attitude about looking and feeling fabulous!

Fabulous: Someone who makes people smile. Someone who tries to change the world. Someone who loves. Someone who does their own thing.

These are five of my favorite bloggers. They are all hilarious/intelligent/witty/kind and so much more.

1. To a T: Nashy was one of my good friends in high school. We now live a million miles apart and our lives couldn’t be more different, but so often she posts things about the way she feels or the way she views life and I find myself nodding and thinking, “Yeah! That’s so true!” We still have a common ground in spite of all the differences. She’s the mother of two beautiful little boys and loves taking pictures of them. Her photography has grown in leaps and bounds! See exhibit A:

Warning: Do not read her blog if you want to feel like an underachieving parent. She is SUPER mom. But she has an unfair advantage, she used to be an elementary school teacher

Another online friend who writes in the same vein and is also super artsy and crafty and has adorable kids on her blog is Vivian at A Dance for 5. Very worth checking out!

2. Decoy Betty: Deidre is HILARIOUS. I mean hilarious as in, some of her posts will literally make you laugh out loud. Like the time she interviewed for a job as a poop and recycled water specialist. I love her for not holding back and showing all sides of herself on blog. And plus, somehow, even if she’s complaining, she still comes across as upbeat and cheery. Funny people can do pull that off!

3. Se Habla Spanglish: I met Cata through Andi (who I did not add to this list because by now if you didn’t realize that we were friends and I love her blog, you’ve clearly missed the boat on that one). She is a beautiful and brave soul, Colombian, living in the U.S., world traveler and about to get married! I love that she has visited so many exotic and cool places, yet always returns to Colombia and speaks of her hometown with passion. Oh, and did I mention she loves Shakira as much as I do? Bonus!

4. Stories of Conflict and Love: Roxanne is an amazing writer. AMAZING, I tell you. She paints pictures with her words. You feel like you are breathing the very air she was breathing in the stories she tells. She will have a book published one day. You heard it here first. She’s a sweet Greek girl who works and lives in conflicts zones. In her words, she specializes “in the effects of war and conflict on women.” When I said that the definition of fabulous was someone who is changing the world, I was thinking about Roxanne.

5. Oneika The Traveller: This girl has a serious case of the travel bug. It cannot be cured. She currently lives in Hong Kong where she blogs not only about her cultural experiences there, but uses the city as a jumping off point to visit many other awesome destinations. And, I’m not going to lie, not only do I love her travel stories, but I also like seeing what she wears when she posts pictures of herself. This girl has some serious style.

6. Not In The Pink: Ceri is another funny woman blogger! She has an adventurous, up for anything kind of attitude, which she’ll be bringing to Latin America at the end of this year and I cannot wait. Just from reading her posts, I can tell she’s the kind of person I want to be friends with!

If we’re blog friends and I didn’t pick you, don’t worry — that doesn’t mean I don’t love you! These are just some of my favorites that I personally think are underrated!

Don’t forget to enter the 50 Fabulous Wishes contest for a chance to win $1,000 to celebrate a friend with a refreshing attitude about looking and feeling fabulous. I was selected for this Tropicana Trop50 sponsorship by the Clever Girls Collective, which endorses Blog With Integrity, as I do. I received compensation to use and facilitate my post.