Not a Quiltypost

So I haven't actually sat down to work on my blankie yet today (it's only 9 PM, the day is young!), but I did manage to take a walk over to Fabricland. It was gorgeous out today so I put my huge down-filled winter coat in the closet and pulled out my lighter pea coat for the stroll. After removing all the blasted cat fur from my coat, I wrapped my purple pashmina that I got from my cousin when I was her bridesmaid (it's actually from India!) and stepped out into the glorious sun. I think I've become vitamin-D deficient, because actually having the sun shine on my face for the first time in weeks did WONDERS for my mood. It was still a bit chilly out but I didn't even care. It was a lovely, albeit brief, walk to Fabricland.

I was thinking of something a little bit thicker than regular cotton for the back of my blankie but so far all my favourite patterns are in thin cotton or rayon. No matter, I'm sure I'll find something spectacular. My absolute favourite pattern so far includes a white background, hot pink stripes in various widths, and SPARKLES. Thats right, kidlets, I will bring bling to my blankie if its the last thing I do. Maybe I'll double up the material if I can afford it. Maybe I'll just have to settle for a thinner material. Either way, this blankie is going to be so fly when I'm done with it.

So since I don't have much else to update in terms of the blankie, I'll just share with you a few of my favourite things!

As I was reading through the new posts on my Google Reader, I came across two new interior design blogs! Both are full of fantastic ideas that REALLY make me wish that I lived in my own apartment instead of a shoebox in my parents house. The first one is Design Evolution, which is a blog that is organized So well. Up at the top there are tabs that categorize all of the posts into "decore", "crafts + diy", "recipes + entertaining" and more. My favourite categories so far might be the decor section (dug) and the recipes + entertaining section. There are so many cute ideas in there that I could encorporate into my future parties that will showcase my talent as a culinary goddess and reverence-worthy hostess.

Next up is Estilo Home. I like this blog because it's really picture heavy and I can kind of relate to the blogger. She's just kind of getting started with the whole interior design thing. Although she's loved it since she was a child, she is REALLY getting into it now and I'm quite inspired with a lot of the things that she is putting up there. What I also love about this blog is that through it I have found the blogger's tumblr, which is basically page after page of the blogger's favourite rooms. I really like most of them and I think they all have really inspiring elements.

One thing I can't figure out is why all these interior designers love WHITE so much. I'm all for light and neutral palettes, but bright white walls in every room of the house just sounds kind of blinding to me. I gotta have me some colour. So maybe I'll start posting some pictures that I like on here once in a while.

And lastly but not leasty:



Come ON, how cool was THAT? Was that shot all in one take? I can't even wrap my mind around how someone could come up with things like these. I love Ok Go videos.

I've been thinking of moving my blog to another provider that offers more customization options. It seems like with blogger, if I don't have serious HTML skills, I'm doomed to squeezing my blog content into one out of a very small selection of pre-made templates. This means that if my pictures don't fit in a template that I really like I have to either deal with half-visible pictures, or I have to change to a template that I like less. Which was the case yesterday. So now my blog is ugly, in my opinion, and I think I'm just ready to move up to something a little less basic. Any suggestions for hosts?

Alright I think I'm going to go cut out a few more cotton squares for my blankie now. Maybe there'll be a Quiltypost for REAL tomorrow, if I don't have a lazyday again. Goodnight kidlets!

♥♥♥
Monica