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Lazy Sunday: Blissdom Edition

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Despite my fears of social awkwardness, I met some fabulous blogging ladies at Blissdom and wanted to share them with you.  What better time than a “Lazy Sunday” post?

I roomed with my very good blog friend Katie of the journal shop Gadanke and the blog Making This Home.  At the last minute we decided to open our room up to one random roommate, and I’m so glad we did!  Candy of Candypolooza was a blast!

I met two ladies in line to get Scott Stratten to sign our new books, then got a second awesome dose of them later that Friday at dinner.  Out of all the random people I met at the conference, they are my favorites – but I may be biased since I got to spend a good bit of time getting to know them:

Thanks to Kristi of Creative Kristi for letting me invite myself to lunch with her group on Saturday.  I’ve followed her on Twitter for ages so it was great to put a face to the name.  Kristi has a graphic and blog design business, so give her a shout if you need WordPress design help!  Our group had a great discussion about things like the horrors of GMO foods, at which point I knew they were my kind of people

There were a few other bloggers who I liked, but who I didn’t get much time to talk to.  I’m still nosing around their blogs:

I hope you’ll check these ladies out and hopefully find some good, new-to-you blog reading!

 

Lazy Sunday

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This Sunday is anything but Lazy for me, I’m trying to finish building my desk and I have products to sew as well.  For those of you who are enjoying some lazy couch surfing and blog-reading today, here are some awesome things that I had to share.

Did you know?  My business trip to Orlando, FL 2 weeks ago was a total disaster as far as missing flights was concerned.  Apparently flying out of DC the day after the Inauguration of The President is a logistical nightmare.  Hundreds of us missed our flights, and the later flights were all booked.  My conference started the next morning, so as soon as I made it to the gate, I told the agent Please just get me on a flight to somewhere in Florida. I can drive from there. 

The end result?  I ended up flying into Ft. Lauderdale moments later.  As soon as I landed, I realized I was only 3 hours south of Orlando and 30 min north of Miami, my most-favorite-city-on-the-East-Coast.  Cue the squeals.  I managed to stuff my face at my favorite Cuban restaurant, visit my grandmother’s grave, and meet up with one of my good blogging friends Sunny at Life In Rehab during the drive to Orlando.  We completely failed to get a traditional “bloggers meeting up” photo.

I also managed to miss my flight home that Friday by locking myself out of my rental car at 6 am while getting gas. 

Let’s move on to the truly lazy Sunday:

Wendy and Alex of Old Town Home are finalists in the Apartment Therapy HOMIES awards for Best Home Project & DIY Blog, and oh my gosh I’m so excited for them!!  I like all the finalists, but want Old Town Home to win because they tackle serious, mind-blowing renovations in their 1880′s Victorian home with an impeccable eye to detail. Their idea of DIY is not just squirting some spray paint on something.   Please vote!

Speaking of Sunny, her mother bought a house, so Sunny is showing us how to widen doorways to let a wheelchair through.  If you’ve got aging parents (and who doesn’t ?) this is good to know.

Curious about painting upholstered furniture?  You MUST see this gorgeous stenciled chair by Ainhoa at A Little Bite of Everything.  Go on, I’ll wait . . .

I’m a fan of keeping things simple, and have long been horrified by the avalanche of baby gear that floods new parents.  Therefore I had to pin this post on “less-is-more baby gear” by Small Notebook.

I’m officially envious (in a friendly way) of Jeannine’s new Sheep print by John Matthew Moore, a DC-based artist.

I’m trying to get back to a healthy, lower-carb diet this February, otherwise I’d be baking up these cinnamon colls shared by Finnskimo, an eskimo blogger in far north Alaska.

Lazy Sunday: Good Reads & Other Awesomeness

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I find myself really enjoying the different series I’ve introduced to the blog lately, such as my Small Business Q&A (another one’s coming this week or next!) and my Weekend Roundups.  And because I am always running across things that I’d love to share with you, I decided to start another simple series called Lazy Sunday: good reads & other awesomeness.

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This illustration from Exploding Dog, which illustrates how I all-too-often feel in social situations.

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On Friday night I discovered Daniel at Manhattan Nest.  A dose of humor and style – just what my blog feed needed!  His tiny hallway redo, part 1 and part 2, is rockin’ my socks.

Apartment Hallway by Manhattan-Nest.com

Credit: Manhattan-Nest.com

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Fabric designer and soon-to-be-author Kelly from EverKelly created some wacky and wonderful Thanksgiving Decor.   And by wacky I mean unexpected, in a good way.

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Jenn at A Home in the Making created the most beautiful hand-painted appetizer plates.  I am in awe, and am pretty sure people will be getting my less gorgeous versions for Christmas this year.

Painted Plates by A Home in the Making

Credit: AHomeInTheMaking.blogspot.com

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Rachel’s recap of our weekend adventure to Linden Vineyards shows a more accurate picture of how weird I am. It also shows me wearing a scrunchie. Oops.

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What are you loving right now? Can you recommend any good reads?

A Few Favorite Things

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Thanks to a few other bloggers who share links to things they love on Fridays, I always end up finding other blogs or articles that I really enjoy.  This Friday I’m jumping on that bandwagon, mainly because I have found some things I’d love to share.   I don’t know if I’ll do it regularly or not. Only time will tell!

♥  First!  Kelly is bringing her dream to life with her very first fabric line:  Storybook Lane.  It’s a fun and whimsical and I can not wait to make the little storybook lane fabric houses and finger puppets for my niece and nephew.  This is especially exciting to me as I first met Kelly in the Blogging Your Way course almost two years ago, when she was just starting to follow her dream.  Here’s the introductory post, but there are several other posts with more detail about the fabrics.

♥  Rachel cracked me up, but also made a great point, with her “pro- and anti-” political platform.

♥  I’m absolutely crazy about caramelized onions – really, I could eat them by the bowlful – so I can’t wait to try Jenn’s Carmelized Onion Mashed Cauliflower recipe next week.

♥  Another blogging friend, Kalani, wrote about peacefully managing your to-do list.  This is something I need to heed, as my to-do lists often stress me out.

♥  I can’t read a blog post or eBook or news article, or even a presentation at work, without wanting to edit the heck out of it.  However, I’m not always great about editing my own blog posts, perhaps because I feel rushed much of the time.  This article from Erika Midkiff via Rena Tom has inspired me to more carefully edit my blog posts.

Finally, this is the final square Elephant Safari pillow cover in the shop, as this awesome linen/cotton Japanese fabric is out of print.  I’m sad to see it go, but at the same time I’m so happy that other people have this delightful design in their homes.

That’s it from me! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  We’ll kick off the weekend with grilling and a firepit with some of our best friends tonight, then I’m looking forward to gardening, home projects, sewing, and coffee with another friend later this weekend.