BEEP BEEP...

Happy weekend ya'll!  What type of weekends do you like best?  I must admit that most of my weekends are spent lazying around - just one of my guilty pleasures.  Believe me, I have LOTS that I could should be doing, and I promise myself that I'll get at least a few pertinent things done today, BUT I thought; what a wonderful time for our first little blog trip!

First Stop: Dellia's
Have you seen this dress!!!

Shown in true Southern Style.  I oooooooed and ahhhhhh for a while when I first laid eyes on Dellia's dress posted at the end of July.  My first thought, "what a gorgeous party dress".  I could even feel the fabric - in my mind that is - that she named a wild colored paisley shantung.  This dress sent me flying to the pattern cabinet (my norm) to see if McCall's 6955 was already in my stash.  After a mad dash, I wiped the sweat from my brow and exclaimed "good, it's already there".  Mind you, I have no idea when I would get a chance to make it up - BUT A GIRL CAN DREAM, CAN'T SHE!

Party in the back - I'm just saying...  Gorgeous and serious racer cut back - What pretty girl wouldn't want a dress like this?!?!?!   I'd even go as far as inviting myself to someone's wedding, party or some other dressy event just to get a chance to wear a dress this pretty.  One day, one day, I'm telling you - this dress will be mine!  Wanting to know every detail about the dress construction - I asked Dellia what she used for the lining.  Her answer:  Hi Linda, Since the fabric was silk, I decided to go with Habotai silk for the lining.  It's really light and flowy.  This, by the way is not the only pretty thing Dellia has whipped up - for a closer look at her sewing world click here.

Last Stop: Dear Lillie

This porch was located at her old house that I watched as she decorated.  She changed this porch per season, and I thought she created were the prettiest rooms.  She has since moved to a new house and now I'm watching as she renovates and decorates all back over again.  She's also been working on decorating her brother's house.  I'm always amazed with her decorating talent.  She's also an excellent photographer as you can see.  She often includes pictures of her 3 little girls who are beautiful, and I think she named the blog after her eldest.

A picture of her current kitchen that I L-O-V-E  everything about - especially the nautical striped roman shades that I SWEAR I'm going to make just as soon as I can get roundtuit!  This particular kitchen post has a link included for a tutorial that even describes how to paint the fabric for the shades.  Don't know if I'd take it quite that far, but alas - I am a dreamer!

Hope you enjoy our first blog trip and will consider joining me on many more to come...

BLOG TRIPPING...

...I don't even get to travel as much as I would like - I don't usually have the time, and besides highway travel has started to make my nerves really shakey.  Anyone out there need a good passenger seat driver?  I excel in riding shotgun.

I've really been contemplating adding a "BLOG TRIPPING" feature to my little place on the web.    I'm always finding cute and interesting new to me blogs during my frequent blog trips, so I'm going to start bring them to the forefront here on my blog.  I'll just point them out, give them a little mention and tell you why I found the blog so interesting.  The trips may or may not be sewing related, so of course you can skip the posts that don't catch your eye (that goes without saying doesn't it?).  Maybe you will have already seen them, maybe not. But I'm sure someone will find several that are  new and interesting to them to them as well.

So when ever you see my new "blog tripping car", and hear me beep the horn, you'll know it's time to hop in and take a little spin with me...

Isn't it just the the cutest vehicle you've ever seen.  There's no need to stop for gas because it's totally flower powered - haha.  We'll be traveling by back roads so hopefully there won't be any heavy traffic so I'll be doing all the driving.  Be on the look out for me...