8 Great Instagram Accounts

When my brothers and I were growing up, we would get so excited about irregularities in fruit or veggies. We would all want to eat It! That duck tomato… OMG… We would have been giddy! Lol

You should also check out @theclaykitchen – a NY-based 13 yo creates amazing miniatures of food out of clay!

I recently rediscovered Jamie Beck of “@AnnStreetStudio” and spent an HOUR yesterday scrolling through her amazing photos of her year in Provence, France. She has been shooting these amazing still-lifes and self-portraits that look like oil paintings. You should feature her for one of these Instagram round-ups or better yet a Beauty/Personal Style post. (Maybe you already did and that’s how I started following her in the first place, I’ve forgotten haha!)

Love watching videos on the drawing/calligraphy accounts! It’s so therapeutic. Especially love @chrystalizabeth and @moss.ink. xx

Check out stilomio_jewelry! Beautiful (and- even for me- affordable) jewelry, great pictures and the cutest dog wearing their necklaces. Love it!

OK, I have a secret weapon I am willing to share with the CoJ gang – I like to find thoughtful gifts for friends/family by paying attention to what they follow (and like) on Instagram. I just found my fiancé a beautiful leather watch strap for his birthday (from @clubpatina) that he had “liked” and he was SO surprised and stoked. Of course, I suppose this works best for people you’re close with to avoid the creepy factor :)

My absolute FAVOURITE at the moment is @disastersofathirtysomething. She and her husband (@adventuresofathirtysomething) are currently travelling around the world, and Sarah posts beautiful pictures with HILARIOUS captions. She also writes a daily Peak and Pit of the day, which are just fantastic. Well worth a follow!!

Thank you!! You gave my Instagram a new life again.

My current faves include:

@kylekotajarvi for amazing nature and landscape photos captured in the PNW and around the world.

@onebouquetperday is a lovely inspirational Swedish flower/vintage combo

@grin_land for more Scandi beauty, very folksy

I like imperfect produce – Its kinda like the one you posted but they deliver ”ugly produce” baskets in a few major cities http://instagram.com/imperfectproduce
Also, I love The Atlas of Beauty – stunning pictures of women from all over the globe http://instagram.com/the.atlas.of.beauty

And “Perhaps you need a little Guatemala” will make you want to fly down and visit ;)
http://instagram.com/perhapsyouneedalittleguatemala

Ahhhhh I love these! Instagram keeps on surprising me with SUCH creative people/creators, it really makes my heart flutter. Thanks a lot for this list, I feel like I’m about to follow most of them!

Joanne | Life in Blue Skies

@tarin_thomas for capturing life on the Lower East Side and beautiful jewelry to boot.

I love @themakingtable — beautiful, sophisticated art education account centered around teaching kids to make and appreciate art.

These are great! I like following several travel ones like @smallcrazy and @theboldbrunette, and also several photography ones like @richard_beresford_harris. It mixes up the feeds of friends.

My husband has a little instagram game http://instagram.com/1.little.thing where he posts two photos daily that are identical except for 1 small change. At first I thought it was kind of a dumb idea , but now I am completely hooked as are all my friends and family. We all race to see who can find the difference first and text each other when we find it!!

@thebearandtheaxe makes bags perfect for fall, @jerryoftheday for daily laughs and @feministfightclub for women power pep talks

Have you seen the old masters project on IG? Sylwia Makris recreates old paintings through photography. The photos and resemblance to the paintings are incredible. https://www.instagram.com/sylwiamakris/

Thank you for introducing The Conscious Kid Library! I have been looking for some new books that have diverse main characters (Some scary statistics about the low, low numbers of non-white main characters in kids books!) and this is a great resource. Yay!

Just want to attest that the non-spicy habenero is real, and so, so, so tasty! If you get your hands on any, do yourself a favor and eat at least one raw out of hand just like you would any delicious fruit! They are sweet and flavorful!

Moment Junkie is my new fave, thanks Joanna.

I once received a basket of fruits and vegetables from a friends garden. Many looked nothing like what I buy in my grocery store. No perfect round shapes, and some were down right ugly. But, they tasted amazing. Years later I read an article about how ugly food could solve world hunger. Thousands of weird shaped, imperfect looking fruits and vegetables are tossed each year because they don’t make the cut as being presentable to sell in grocery stores. Gasp! Shame on me for not understanding this. The Instagram account you shared is hopefully going to bring more deserved attention to this important subject!

Okay, as an art history nerd, I am in LOVE with Alexey Kondakov’s work! And those color pencil paint portraits…I’m dying. I can’t believe I’ve never seen these before. These are all such great feeds…now I have some serious Instagram stalking to do. ;)

Love the Ugly Fruits and Veg! What a hoot!
@ariellevey for G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S photography
@adornthehunter sells jewelry but posts some of the funniest memes
@violetclair and @theawkwardyeti for awesome illustrations
@nowservingboba a tiny black french bulldog because duh

I use to work with the guy behind @goatstigram – so random, so adorable.

@specialbooksbyspecialkids is incredible.