i made a few more crafts this year that i haven't shared yet.
i know….i was kind of a craft maniac this year.
this isn't normal for me.
i had such a good time making all these things.
but some years i don't feel like making anything….enjoy it when it comes i guess.
my 2 little nieces were given these shirts.
i really love making these.
i don't need much to make me happy….
a shape on at-shirt…that's all i need!
i made a couple of these pillows.
it's pretty big…like a throw pillow.
very fun.
i could see myself making a bunch of these too…
just because i like piecing them together.
my sister thought they looked a little mushroom-y with the red polka dot roof.
this one is hers.
and then there are these hand towels.
i made bunches of these.
crystal…i said i was copying you.
literally i was looking at your shop and trying to make what you made.
you have such great ideas!
i want to live in this subdivision.
wouldn't that be the coolest place ever?!
i showed these towels to craig saying "look at these!!!!" so proud of myself and he said
"those are just darling!" in a very sarcastic tone.
i don't care what he says….they are cute!
if you want one go to crystal's etsy shop. (click here)
hers are much nicer than mine…appliqued and everything.
she has fabulous shop full of creative goodies.
now i am out of ideas.
and energy.
Melissa - hi Meg,
I love the t-shirts and I am looking for an inexpensive, fun way to dress my kiddos! I have 3 children ages 3, and 18 month with 2 more expected in 5 weeks.(YEP, 5 ages 3 and under!) These shirts would be soooo cute on them! Have you even done a tutorial??? PLEASE consider one if you haven’t already! Thanks a bunch!
the rauths - hello! ok silly question here…what type of towels did you sew the adorable houses onto? i just love love love them. i know this is so random to ask but i’ve never done it and have all my pieces ready to go, except the towels. those i keep debating! thanks for your constant creativity and inspiration. i tell my husband i want to be you when i grow up and we have kids.
Randi - I love the stuff you make! Those toss pillows and towels are great!
Tegan - Really really cute Meg!
Just a question… do you buy the tshirts, and then design the fronts?? OR… do you make the tshirt too??
I’d love to know-cos my 9yo cousin would love one of these. Maybe I’ll find the sewing machine and get stitching 🙂
Lynne - awesome! i adore that little village of towels 🙂
Diane - Love, love, love the tea towels.
I was thinking of making some for Christmas gifts last year. And well, now it’s January and nobody got tea towels.
But I’m gonna make some of these really cute ones asap just for me. Thanks for the inspiration.
And by the way, I just found your site tonight through mom advice and it’s wonderful.
Ashlie - I love the stuff you make! It all has such a bright, fun, whimsical feel to it. I am really loving the pillow! I bet it would be too cute in your playroom. Great job!
Amanda Rettke - i LOL thinking about him saying, they are just darling! LOL that is priceless.
Godbless-
Amanda
Beth - Now these are just simply cute! All of them! Thanks for sharing…I might try the daisy looking one and just maybe I can handle it. We will see!
Beth - Now these are just simply cute! All of them! Thanks for sharing…I might try the daisy looking one and just maybe I can handle it. We will see!
carissa - flipping fabulouso!
love it ALL!
i have a bunch of Crystal’s towels… they make me smile! actually… i think WEARING a t-shirt like the ones you made… THAT would make me smile too!
Anna - Love the shirts. I’d like to attempt the heart shrits for Valentines Day coming up – I hope I can make some time to try them.
I just popped on your website not to long ago, but you have inspired me so much!
eryn - those tshirts are so stinkin cute! I have made some onesies kind of like that…a friend of mine who also reads your blog came up to me and said, your onesies remind me of those shirts on Meg’s blog…it was like, the greatest compliment ever!
I really wish I could live in your house. I think your house is my dream house…or maybe, I wish I could just live in your craft room. that would be heaven! I’m getting ready to adopt a baby girl from ethiopia, and daydreaming about a nursery. I keep thinking, what would Meg do? Is that weird? Well, if you have any wonderful inspiration, I’d love to hear it! Ok,this is officially no longer a comment. Sorry!
liz - i love all of the applique ideas you do! and how you do the stitching. love the towels too! definitely going to have to copy you!
Emily - Oh my goodness! I’ve been wanting to make those towels too. I saw them on Etsy a couple months ago and a friend of mine ended up liking them so much too that she made a few as Xmas gifts.
Yours are SOOOO cute! Great job
jody - I have been lurking for some time…and want to tell you how much you inspire me!!! Love your crafts, your humor & especially your photographs!!!! I hope it’s ok I added you to my “blog list” on my blog…Happy New Year!
Jody
Jamie Sampson - It is official, you are great at everything. I am in awe. Hope you are having a lovely 2009.
Lisa - I love the Christmas card display. I have to ask, where did you get the cute white fabric with the polka dots? I’ve been looking for pyjama pants with a similar fabric.
Take care,
Lisa
Daja - Out of lurkdom to say….
I left you a blog award! Stop by to pick up your bling anytime!
Wendy - i agree, you need to have an etsy shop!
i’d definitely buy some of this goodness!
Ashley - Seriously I have no idea how you do all that with 5 kids. I have 3 and am lucky to wash my dishtowels…nonetheless make so many incredible ones. I actually posted some I made today…I think I might need to delete my post and just put a link to these. Very nicely done!
Jennifer - Cuuuuuuuuuutttttte! I love it all!
Smiles,
Jen
NisaSim - These are awesome! Question about the t-shirts – do you use interfacing at all or do you just sew the fabric on plain? Is the inside (back of the applique) irritating at all to whoever is wearing the shirt?
Anyway, I just found your blog after seeing your fabulous playroom on ohdeedoh (it was my fave of all the entries) and I’ve been embarrassingly hooked on your blog all. day. long. Just trying to get a little inspiration where there seems to be spades of it!
Staci - Okay…I’m totally telling on myself right here in front of God and Blogland…I totally tried to click on the subdivision to see where you’d like to live…and in my defense…QUICKLY realized you meant the little homes on your divine towels! Hello??!! And I am a brunette! Just thought you’d get a good laugh out of that one 🙂
Staci - I haven’t had a chance to read how everyone commented on this post of your’s…my guess is they are all saying what I’m fixin to….YOU SHOULD TOTALLY HAVE AN ETSY SHOP GIRLFRIEND!!!!! I’d keep you in business for sure! (Except…I just have boys, but man I can just imagine what you’d come up with to put on simple shirts!!!) You are simple amazing!
Gabrielle Mader - they are cute…no matter what craig says….you are my muse.
cjs - wishing I lived in your (read in italics) neighborhood.
Donna - Hi Meg – I love your blog. You have the best ideas!!! I love your house – what an awesome house and the craft room is to die for. I love that you have 5 children – I have 6!!! I love that you are real about your family – especially the picture of the two empty seats at your table ~ just like my house. Keep blogging, reading your blog is one of the highlights of my evenings.
Donna
sara - i love your blog! you are inspiring me to get off my computer & get back to sewing! keep up the great crafts!
Shannon Phillips - I recently found your blog off of Ashley Ann’s site and I am sooooooo inspired! You are one talented woman! I am speechless. Seriously, I am going to come back to your blog all of the time now because it makes me so happy and creatively regenerated. Thank you for posting your life..I love it!
Michelle - This year, in my haste, I barely decorated the tree, I only used those white crochet snowflakes. When the cards started coming in, I had no place for them. Then, VIOLA! I began tucking them in the tree. It solved two problems :the card display, and the under-decorated tree. Easy-peasy, got lots of compliments and I might do it every year.
amy j - You should ABSOLUTELY open your own Etsy shop!! I will be your first customer!
adrienneK - so cute!!! i used your crayon idea over christmas it was a big hit!!
Tami - Your things are always so cute, I love it & tried those marshmallow pops for my kids winter parties, it was a huge hit, thanks so much!
sara's art house - Cute!!!! Love the rainbow shirt!
Trina - These are extremely fabulous… I would move to the neighborhood with you and I’m glad your husband has the same type of responses as mine! You should be designing and selling… that is what I say! Love love love!
Meesh - Love the M shirts, being named Michelle and all. 🙂
Diana Cornielle - Oh yes, indeedy! These are CUTE! I love everything you do. And thanks for the link to her etsy shop. I checked it out. Her stuff is so cool, like yours! By the way I don’t know if you’re willing to play but TAG! YOUR IT! I tagged you. Check out my blog for more details.
kristin at prairie daze - stop.
i love my pillow (though eliza has claimed it saying that since it came from annie’s mom it is basically hers).
and i LOVE those towels.
maybe i’ll try to make some too. or you should open a shop.
traci - you are the craft goddess. i want to wear cute things on my t-shirts. they are adorable!! and those dishtowels would make me like to do dishes. i am going to check out crystals. hey meg, why don’t you have an etsy shop? hint, hint. 🙂
lee ann - Ok, I too am in the mood to make something! Thanks for the ideas. I almost made the shirts for my daughter’s friends for Christmas, but chickened out. For their birthdays? 🙂 Do you just leave the edges raw?
And the towels! I think it’s a lovely little subdivision and I want some!
anne - love these!
swipin’ the idea myself!
nice work~
katy - Everything you made is darling! and…yes, I want to live in that sub division as well…cutie patootie!!
You did a great job on all of it…the little t-shirts reminded me of Gap. Good job.
p.s. I love your blog, I found you this afternoon and had to come back for a visit. 🙂
danyele - i am such in the mood to sew…and now i need to get on the move! i hvae 3 shirts that need fun sewing on…and i love that rainbow…can i steal it? love all that fun stuff…ur so fun
lorel - We have been loving all our gifts! The girls have worn all their shirts already, and I am currently doing laundry so they can wear them again. The pillow looks perfect on our bed. We have been enjoying our vacation- reading and watching football in our room, lounging on a great big mushroom house pillow! It is so darn cute. We love our towel too. They look great together too. Thank you thank you THANK YOU. You are the best sister.
p.s. I just wrote all this in a thank you note, but thought I would share my sentiments with the blogosphere.
MGF - I’ll tell you, I am gonna make one for my boys this year with their letters. I think you said you made them with left over fabric. Each time I have seen these I just love them.
Lorilee - VERY cute Meg. I love the bright colors! I finally got past my holiday lazies! Today, I used an old chambray curtain panel–very large–to make 4 small panels. I have curtains in my garden shed, but they are getting tattered from the sun. I will hang them tomorrow
Blessings,
Lorilee
Aubrey - um, I meant to put an !!! instead of a ? after “darling”. i would have left it alone, but it looks like i was being sarcastic.
Aubrey - Those towels (ALL of it) ARE darling? What mushroom is Craig smoking? You have such a cool eye for fun and pretty fabrics. I know I am the annoying one always asking how and where you do things, but where do you usually buy all that fun fabric? (Have you linked the places before?) I KNOW most of it’s not at my local fabric stores.
sigh. I just LOVE LOVE LOVE your style. I’m glad you were feeling crafty and showed us your stuff so we could be inspired. and hopefully just as motivated. (it’s easier to be motivated when the kids get bigger, right?) (i hope so.)
brittany - Those are AMAZING! I let you make me a couple shirts and hand towels…you know since your in the crafting mood!
Melanie - Meg,
They are so cute and they look just like you:)
Melanie - Meg,
They are so cute and they look just like you:)
crystal - you are too sweet meg! thanks for making this overly hormonal pregnant womans day! LOVE the house pillow and the shirts. 🙂 take care friend!
crystal - you are too sweet meg! thanks for making this overly hormonal pregnant womans day! LOVE the house pillow and the shirts. 🙂 take care friend!