Thursday, May 6, 2010

Burda picks for May

I've read several blogs where people totally love this new issue of Burda. Me - not so much. I do really love two of the designs, and that is just fine. (By the way, I mainly do these posts so I can keep track of which designs I like from which magazine. Then I can easily click on the BWOF tag and all the drawings come up with their corresponding months.)

This is blouse 125. WHAT a cute neckline!!! I'm not crazy about the sleeves, though, and am thinking about just making it sleeveless.



Blouse 129 is awesome. It's fitted with pockets and topstitching and other fun details. This is my kind of pattern! (Hopefully that collar has a collar stand. I'm currently feeling too lazy to go downstairs and check.)


Oh, and we did make it home safely today in one piece. Thanks for all your well wishes. It turned out to be 13.5 hours in the van - yuck! Allison C. wrote that she's amazed at us Americans that drive such long distances. We did this time because it was more economical than flying and having to rent a car, and we really didn't want to have to rely on Disney transportation. We also wanted to see some of the southern states we'd never before visited. However, I draw the line at driving more that two days to a destination, and always fly when I visit family in far away Oregon.

9 comments:

  1. I agree, the neckline on 125 is really cute. Look forward to seeing your version!

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  2. I am with you on 2 things. First this issue of Burda - not loving it like general blogdom seems to. And secondly we are used to driving long distances here in Australia. Like the US we are pretty big land size and everything is spread far apart. And you do get to see lots of changes in landscape when you are travelling for 2 days in the car!

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  3. That blouse really wants to have simple little cap sleeves. SO cute.

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  4. That first blouse is the only thing that really caught my eye this month. It's almost great enough to buy just for that, but not quite. :-) I passed this month.

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  5. I just posted my May picks too, haha! I didn't care for this issue so much either. I mean, it has some cute things, but nothing that is screaming MAKE ME NOW. But that blouse was one of my top 5 too.

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  6. Those are cute tops! Glad you made it back safely!

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  7. Just wanted to say i'm glad you had fun on your vacations and thank you for sharing the pics of your family, your boys are adorable!
    Ok, now please start sewing again because i cannot wait to see what you make next!!
    xoxo

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  8. There's no collar stand in that 2nd pattern I'm afraid! Glad you made it back safely, if Brits drove for 2 days we'd fall off the island!

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  9. Yeah, I wasn't completely wild about most of the designs either, but there are one or two that look interesting.

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