Category Archives: crafts & artthe 2009 version.
being intentional with our days. or trying to be. no one can claim boredom when there is all of this poster board of ideas to choose from…or can they? they will anyway. it's really a fun project to do together. get your kids involved. ask what they really want to do. it's okay to write down silly ones that may not ever happen. who knows…last year "get a dog" was one of our never-gonna-happen things… and now we have waffle. i wonder what we'll check off today….
annie said:
"mom…this is me.
and my head is HUGE.
i am wearing a green shirt and i am smiling.
and i just drank a whole bunch of water.
sigh…
i just wanted to squeeze her little face.
sometimes you feel something stronger than you can put into words…swelling from deep down.
love
love
love.
my husband is coming home from his man weekend.
my girls are coming back from their grandmother's.
the house will be full again.
it was nice to have the quiet and it will be just as nice to have them back again.
happy sunday.
that is a great piece of artwork right there! Gosh darn, if I was next door, I would have come over to lend a hand, making some noise and some mess for you in all that quiet. so sweet. your little annie makes me want to have another little one around here. just for a minute though. i’ll just come down and borrow her for the day. awww!! i love the water on the bottom half of her face 🙂 so cute i love those days- this post put a smile on my face! I always enjoy your blog. Makes me smile every time! Priceless. I love that picture and her explanation of it. Truly adorable and precious! I love it! I have read your blog for awhile, and just wanted to tell you that I truly enjoy it. It makes me feel at peace. 🙂 my Lainie Pie says to me today… love this so much!! Your life and your family and your house and your dog–everything just seems so cool! I know having all those kids and a dog can be chaos, but you guys just seem so relaxed, laid back. Its really nice. That says it all, I love Annie’s art so fun and full of COLOR, the best part is that she just drank a bunch of water, thats so cute. Oh, please say that you are going to frame that picture and put the caption underneath! It’s just perfect! She is so precious! Aren’t kids the cutest! I love her drawing and best of all the description. so sweet…. I LOVELOVELOVE this too! Perfection in tiny little words. You’re daughter is an Einstein. So colorful. what better time for art?  annie was waiting the last hour before we left to go see nana.
and it seemed like it was taking forever (for us both).
we'd already played candyland and memory.
she asked "can i paint?"
i answered "sure…why not."
she seemed shocked.
 but thrilled.
she said "these are blocks"
and as she put each new color on…the excitement built.
adding the white paint to the colors added a whole new level to her art.
eventually she was shouting.
"LOOK LOOK LOOK!!! PINK!!!"
then a big squeal of delight and a little jumpy dance.
 i know how she feels.
Alright, that is so me, every day when I work, I laugh, dance and have the most fun while I work and get paid to do it too. Please never ever let them grow up. That expression is priceless-how wonderful that you, too, know that delight! Annie is just so cute! and I love that her life is all about colours and mixing them all, building and creating beautiful pieces of art! You’re so good about letting kids do those kind of things. I’m horrible and thats worse because apparently i’m supposed to be an artist and former art teacher. LOL 🙁 oh, fresh paints! that’s the best! I can’t tell you how much I love that your home is beautiful AND Annie is allowed to paint at the coffee table right in front of the couch. Homes that kids aren’t allowed to be kids in really bother me. Congratulations on being a great mom!! Fun! I love her hair, btw. I love moms who will cut their girls’ hair short b/c it contradicts what most expect out of girls, it seems. I have 2 boys and then a 19 month old baby girl….lots to learn…..but I do know now that I love little girls with short hair. I’m sure I will do the same. LOVE what that one mom commented…carpe diem for real! Beautiful! Calvin always just mixes all of the colors together until he gets brown. 🙁 Love that you share something so special with her. i’m not sure why, but i’m always hesitant when my little girl asks to paint…. don’t you love when you can surprise them with a ‘yes’!? YOUR A GOOD MOM Yes I know know how she feels too!!! OK…she has A LOT of paint on that papaer and her clothes look CLEEEEEAN!!!! HOW??? Love that you let her do that right before leaving I just cant figure how she stayed clean for grandma? lolol LOOOOOVE it!! thats a big water color pallet! where did you get it? we only have the single row one s she definately has her mama’s creativity gene. so cute. Awww, Annie is SO adorable and a rather talented artist, might I say (: Love that look on her face! Oh, she has the expression of my preschoolers when they mix a new color! I love it! Looks like a fun day. Join my challenge if you want 🙂 it's true. as crazy as messes can make you feel (after awhile) they can also be so pretty too.
the craft room is a major huge mess.
and it feels good and happy.
 pillows stacked over my head.
fabric piled everywhere.
scraps all over the place.
i am sure these pictures will make some of you cringe from all the mess…but it's just me.
   my friend susan dropped off these boxes of ribbon just to be nice.
she thought i could use them on a cora project.
they are so happy just to look at and i can't wait for the perfect project.
  i have stacks of shirts and hoodies to keep me busy yet.
i have been through many big boxes of stuffing.
my scrapbook supplies are buried back there somewhere…i will get back to that someday.
 as i sew and cut i just let it fall on the floor.
i have only slipped on it once….
we've have been able to have the windows open even….so refreshing and sunny.
  just after the funerals….i decided to paint the craft room.
it was something i could control.
nothing sad would come of me painting a wall.
i did the whole wall in chalkboard paint.
IT IS SO COOL!
the little girls have been busy while i sew so it's win/win.
and are you wondering where the craft room is?
remember the new bathroom?
you have to go through my bedroom, through the new bathroom to get to it….
like a secret room just for me.
 if i had a computer up there….i may never come out!
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ok…..time for some shop talk.
i have lots more items to list.
my neighbor made a bunch of things for me to list.
i made many more pillows and shirts.
my PLAN is to list it all today.
then ship everything that sold last week tomorrow and friday.
and then start making things again.
but that was my plan yesterday too.
i screwed up my pictures…i was very crabby…so were my kids….and i had a headache.
in effort to be proactive, today i MADE myself go for a walk for sunshine and exercise and health.
and i feel much better.
check tonight for the new stuff in the shop.
just so you know…i am LOVING the shop.
LOVING that you like it.
LOVING that the playground project is going so well.
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it is beautiful.
she's beautiful….oh those cheeks and blue blue eyes!
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Those pillows are delicious! I love your fabric! And oddly, admidst the mess, I took in some organizational ideas from you! 🙂 I like your mess! Hello Meg, I have to confess that I am obsessed with your blog! You are SOOOOOO inspiring! I dream of having a craft room like this one day! This is the only place I can come and look at a mess that actually makes me happy. For one thing – it is a colorful, happy mess. and secondly – it’s not mine and that makes it fantastic. WOW! I love all the color! I was wondering where I could find that awesome red and white damask fabric? Thank you soo much! the pic above the chalkboard picture just screams happiness to me. i love it!! I love it love it love it! Mine is even messier, but not nearly as colorful, so it just looks like a junk room. And I’m in the basement with not a lot of light. I envy your window! The chalkboard wall is awesome. I may have to just do that… At least it’s a colorful mess! That makes it more bearable. I like messy colorful things in my gardens, no neatness here. No little round bushes with mulch at their feet, nope a big exuberant mess of blooms and weeds. oh, man. i would love to rummage through your craft room. i must admit, i would probably be folding things as i went but i would love it!!! beatiful fabrics and ribbons…a crafter’s heaven. holy cannoli hey there! i’m not sure if i should request a custom order here or on your shop, but my daughter’s bday is march 16. i would really like to have her an outfit like you did for annie. i already have the tutu. halle will be 5. mostly just pinks, white & black. would love for the 5 to be black & white polka dot.. but whatever you come up with will be great. in a size 5. and would you like for me to prepay??? Meg… I wish we lived in the same town. I would so be your friend. 🙂 Makes me feel right at home! You should see mine. Nice to see I’m not the only one. I tend to take over the whole house. Here a project, there a project! It’s all good though. Keeps me happy : )…….. Wow. I am going to be lost in your blog for a while. It is refreshing and fun. Thank you! Love the chalkboard wall. I have one over my stove. I think everyone needs a little chalkboard paint somewhere in their home. As always, beautiful colors. what a great craft room – you are a lucky girl!! continuing to follow cora’s blog and praying every day! I JUST RECENTLY FOUND YOUR BLOG, IT IS AMAZING! IT’S ONE OF THE BEST ON THE INTERNET! I LOVE YOUR HOUSE, IT’S BEAUTIFUL, I WOULD LOVE TO LIVE THERE! ARE ALL THE PILLOWS SOLD OUT? I WENT TO YOUR STORE TO BUY ONE AND I DIDN’T SEE THEM, IF THERE SOLD OUT WHEN WILL YOU BE LISTING MORE? I ALSO HAVE TWO OTHER QUESTIONS-FIRST CAN YOU MAKE A CHARM WITH A PHOTOGRAPH IN IT? SECOND QUESTION-I LOOKED AT ALL YOUR ARCHIVES AND SAW YOUR BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS, WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO SPECIAL ORDER THOSE EXACTLY LIKE THE ONES ON YOUR MANTEL? I LOVE THEM!!!!!YOU ARE A VERY TALENTED LADY! GOD BLESS !!!!!! hi Meg, LOVE LOVE LOVE your blog!! It’s so happy! Where did you get the large letter M in your craft/sewing room? I’m searching for a large letter HI Meg, great mess!! Do you think you might could make some of your super cool and funky bottle-cap magnet thingies for your Etsy store??…love those things!! Um, possibly some with pics of cupcakes in them?? You are SO creative… Can’t wait to see what is new in the shop. That room is so happy and fun! It reminds me of my mom’s sewing room which is always a beautiful mess too! PS. I told my hubby we need a new room and I need a craft room….LOL, I am not sure if I will get a new house just so I can have a craft room. Love the “mess” I would welcome that creative mess anytime at my house. I just adore your stuff. LOVE IT. I ordered something. I think your mess is beautiful and colorfully happy! I love the chalkboard wall and am very jealous of your craft room. I want one! 🙂 Love the pillows and the chalkboard wall!!! I have chalkboard walls in my kitchen and LOVE it. Oh Meg it is all so perfect. And your mess looks very familiar! man how i wish i had your craft room and your talent. i’ve always wanted to sew but have a fear of it. yipee! i see a few of my pillows in those piles. so superdedooper excited to get them! I love the mess. I’m glad it’s not just me. Thank you for being beautiful. I loove all the colors some of your fabrics looks like Lily Pulitzer my favorite! I love the craft room! I love the color in the pictures! and I love the mess!!!! My craft room is neglected and it is messy too! I love that you are creating! I wish I had it in me to do that right now! i want to move in there. you could rent it like a retreat. I don’t think you can be creative without a bit of a mess 🙂 That looks like crazy fun…and majorly theraputic (I know I spelled that wrong!). I have my eye on ones of those pillows…off to your shop to see if I can score it! i look about 25 times a day at the etsy–cora stuff. there were like 625 items still for sale…i’m so happy! and your stuff is uber fab! Love your messes, love your craftiness! Have got to get some of those pillows!!!!! Keep up the amazing work!! that’s the most beautiful mess i’ve ever seen! what a wonderful, creative mess it is. i think creative messes are the only good kind of messes. you are on a roll. good for you. they are so lucky to have you on their team. cora’s playground is going to be the best ever. i am headed to the shop now. keep up the good work. Umm, any comment would be superfluous, but…. well done on balancing beauty, mayhem and joy so deliciously! All of the colors and patterns, the things that make us girls happy! I love looking at it! There are so many fun things in that room…It’s a good mess..a fun mess! I love it all Megan! Those pictures bring some brightness to these days. Do you think it’s okay if I just go broke buying all this cute stuff…oh wait, NO! That is the one thing Jess’s mom said…”now you girls don’t go broke!” You inspire me to be crafty….haha, that makes me laugh. If only I could get my sewing machine out of the box and set up! I AM getting Mason’s shirt for his bday done, hooray for me…but I think I’ll be running to gma’s to borrow the machine! I think it’s pretty 🙂 What a wonderful mess! You are so talented and you have inspired me to get my sewing machine out and create something. What a beautiful mess! My messes never look that colorful and bright! Mine are more like husbands dirty socks and lots of cereal bowls. Maybe I should invest in some colorful dishes 😉 I would love to have enough stuff and space to have a mess like that! I love your site, your house and pictures. You are an inspiration to me. I don’t know how you find time to do ALL that you do! Keep up the good work. I want your craft room… mess and all! Ha, your room is a MESS, but so DIVINE 🙂 craft room envy! love it. i work best like that! i think i could pee with glee over all that good stuff! Now THAT is a beautiful mess. I wish my messes looked like that. And your photography is inspirational. I love your mess! Oh I wish I lived closer – organization is my thing. I’d bee-oop on over and get everything boxed up & out the door, and help get items listed (but would not touch the supplies, it seems like an methodical organized mess). Thank you for being real. You make me smile, daily! love all the color splashing out of these photos!!! honestly i would love to have that mess….all of it…oh and that chalkboard paint looks awesome! I have been wanting to do the crayola pink and purple in the playroom…but better save that for a house we’ll get to stay in for more than a year or two. I love all of those pillows! Especially the red and white. And I love what is being done to raise money for the playground – what a great way to come together in memory of a sweet baby girl. Messy? It all looks normal to me! I only wish I had as terrific a space to contain my mess! And I LOVE the chalkboard wall! I love that mess! It is beautiful! BTW…yours is my favorite blog EVER. Love the chalkboard wall!!! We’ve been wanting to do that to the toy room for a while now…not sure if I should do the bottom half of the wall or all of it. Loving the items in your shop too!! You’re inspiring me to try to make some of those flower shirts! I bought my sewing machine back in October and finally got it out last week and have been practicing. You are doing such a wonderful thing. looks like a fun room to me! What a fun, colorful mess! I’d love to have a messy craft room like that! Wow lady , you are lucky to have such an escape , maybe my mudroom will be a craft storage utility room, hmmm! That is so cool!! You have creativity spilling everywhere!! Love it!! I LOVE your mess!! I am hoping in our next bigger house I will get a craft room!!!! I love all the material you are using!!! Love the colors!!!! Sara Just what I needed to see on this closed-window day! Bring on the pillows! And, ps, your yellow metal table on casters? I have the exact one in green. 🙂 every single picture makes me so happy!!! i love all the colors, I LOVE the fabric! can’t wait to see what else you put in your shop! i made my mom buy the brown/orange polka dot pillow!! Oh! i so need that room. and all the wonderful, colorful, perfect mess in it. when you’re finished, please let me have it. Ok first it all looks great to me…crafting is messy! I NEED that patchwork pillow. I have been watching and waiting for you to list one. If you would be so kind to list it just for me as a special order I would like to buy it or I can just buy it from you. I work 3-11p.m tonight for skills, I am a nurse and I don’t want to miss it when you list it! Do I sound crazy or what…I LOVE that pillow!! Love the craft room and everything you are doing for the Cora Paige Project! Just curious where you bought the hex tile in your bathroom? Love it! Wow, what a great explosion of color! That’s so much fun. Wow, what a great explosion of color! That’s so much fun. but your craft room is so cheerful and whimsical EVEN when it isn’t the tidiest ever! and it’s beautiful, and that’s real life. it’s how it goes. I wish I had a room like that too–I need a place to be messy that no one sees as soon as they walk in the front door! My messes aren’t pretty though. I sonder what that tells me about my creations. yeesh. What a wonderful “mess”! Love your shop, looking forward to tonight’s additions. i am loving that mess! it’s gorgeous!! and i love that your craft room is in such a cool, hard to get to place! how fun! i haven’t bought anything from the shop yet b/c every time i check it you are cleared out!! but i’m glad it’s going so well!! Looks like an inspiring mess to me! I’m the same way. They say ‘creatives’ are like this… our brains just don’t organize the way other people’s do. at least, that’s what I tell myself when things get out of control. lol I NEEEEEEEEEED THOSE RED AND WHITE PILLOWS. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE… TELL ME HOW, I CAN GET THEM. IF I SOUND CRAZY DESPRATE, I AM. I’VE BEEN COVETING THOSE CURTAINS FROM YOUR MUD ROOM SINCE YOU POSTED. I THINK I’M HYPERVENTILATING. Such a fun place! I love the “give more hugs” sign – who made it?! I just love it – I wish I had a sewing room to make a mess like that. I am still working on a few more things to add to the shop – Russ is gone this week – soooo we will see what I can get done with London’s help. I have seen you light on in the craft a night when I am on my way up the stairs to bed. buring the midnight oil?? 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.
hi Meg, 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. I love the stuff you make! Those toss pillows and towels are great! Really really cute Meg! awesome! i adore that little village of towels 🙂 Love, love, love the tea towels. 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! i LOL thinking about him saying, they are just darling! LOL that is priceless. 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! 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! flipping fabulouso! 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. 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 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! 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. 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! It is official, you are great at everything. I am in awe. Hope you are having a lovely 2009. 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. Out of lurkdom to say…. i agree, you need to have an etsy shop! 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! Cuuuuuuuuuutttttte! I love it all! 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? 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 🙂 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! they are cute…no matter what craig says….you are my muse. wishing I lived in your (read in italics) neighborhood. 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. i love your blog! you are inspiring me to get off my computer & get back to sewing! keep up the great crafts! 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! 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. You should ABSOLUTELY open your own Etsy shop!! I will be your first customer! so cute!!! i used your crayon idea over christmas it was a big hit!! 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! Cute!!!! Love the rainbow shirt! 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! Love the M shirts, being named Michelle and all. 🙂 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. stop. 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. 🙂 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? love these! Everything you made is darling! and…yes, I want to live in that sub division as well…cutie patootie!! 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 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. 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. 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 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. 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. Those are AMAZING! I let you make me a couple shirts and hand towels…you know since your in the crafting mood! Meg, Meg, you are too sweet meg! thanks for making this overly hormonal pregnant womans day! LOVE the house pillow and the shirts. 🙂 take care friend! you are too sweet meg! thanks for making this overly hormonal pregnant womans day! LOVE the house pillow and the shirts. 🙂 take care friend! |
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castors - There are too many to do when summer days are coming, school is out and fun is in. Sometimes you just want to earn money with these extra time.
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PS~Erin - I just put mine up for this year, using yours for inspiration. Thanks!
Alisha - I found out about your blog from A Soft Place to Land. And I am glad I did. I just wanted to let you know that we made our own list…except ours is stuff to do before my son turns two this fall (A One Year Old Bucket List) You can check it out here if you are interested:
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Thanks for the Great Idea! I love being intentional about doing fun stuff.
Jodi - What a great idea! I’m doing this for myself. ;o)
Jennifer - What a clever idea! The kind where I go… now why didn’t I think of that? I am definitely going to do this with my kids. Thanks for the fantastic idea 🙂
Kelly G in ATX - Just found you through Clover Lane and I thought “take waffles on walks” was pretty silly…until I read that your dog’s name is Waffles. Our cat’s name is Snack. Huzzah for weird pet names and fun summer lists!
marlowe@comehometoroost.blogspot.com - So cute! Gotta try this with mine.
PS~Erin - What a great idea… Even though the summer is winding down, I think we’ll make a “before the summer ends” list. Going to check out your link to the other list too. Thanks!
Nancy - Meg ~ email me direct RE: Chase Co.
3blondesandthelaw@live.com
Nancy - Meg ~ I see the Chase Co. waterfall made your list again this year. Have you gone yet? I still want you to do photos of my family at my childhood home in Chase Co. I have to be intentional…and make it happen. We’ll be in Chase Co. on Aug 30….any chance you’d be available too?
Marie - We just did our own list and the kids loved it and are looking forward to checking stuff off…thanks for sharing.
silvia - One thing that i´d like to do this summer is fly a kite!!
JOY - Gonna Start my list now! Thanks for the great idea!
deanna - Here’s my list add-on for the summer: I hope to have at least one organic bee hive thriving in my lavendar garden:-)
Sally Ann - Michelle, Quite awesome and inspiring, only a little intimidating, but yes, making goals for summer/year round inexpensive fun is very important–especially for grandmas! So my granddaughters and I spent a ‘day in the city’ riding the trolley; and the TRAM; (finally-third time was a charm–it had been closed due to weather and holiday–call before you go! But disappointment is part of life, too.) Splurged with Italian sodas at OHSU coffee cart; played in Jamison Park Fountain–in the rain. (Can’t always wait for sunshine in Portland!)
My really fun project in the summer, by myself, is recruiting, interviewing and matching AFS host families to their peace-making ambassador AFS exchange students. Peace, person by person for Peace in our World! Everyone with a heart for peace should have “Host an exchange student” on their list of things to do! You can find all you need to know about AFS by searching for “AFS USA” Happy hunting!
nisa - This is a brilliant idea, life does seem much busier in the summer although the days are longer. I shall make a list also..so many dreams that can come true in time.
turnitupmom - I love that you can use this list as a reference when you hear those little whiney voices. I’d really like to stop by on your homemade ice cream day. What a fun family!
Chaos-Jamie - We made a list this year also, though it was late enough in the summer that I listed things we’d already done. (I need to feel successful, also.)
When you come up to Deanna Rose, give me a call. I’d love to bump into you there! You don’t have to spend all day with us, I promise. 😉 My kids will drag me off to another area after four and a half minutes.
andrea - I got here through the Inspired Room. Your list caught my eye because the minute I saw “Deanna Rose” on your list, I knew where you lived! Or at least close to it! I spent 7 happy years living in Olathe and spent a lot of time at Deanna Rose. Miss it like crazy! Thanks for tipping off a memory!
Jocelyn Stott - Jumped to this site from The Inspired Room and I love it. Your photography is beautiful!
In terms of your list – great idea. I don’t have kids, but when I do, this will be a great thing to do. I noticed your number one item is “Worlds of Fun.” I am from Portland, OR but I have family in Nebraska. One summer when I was about 7 or 8, we went to visit the Nebraska family. During the trip, my grandparents rented a van and we all made the trek to Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun. It was a blast and I have always remembered that as one of the best vacations. Hope you guys make it there this summer! Take care.
Michelle B - I bounced over here from Inspired Room. Love the summer list – I got to do that! Love your blog – very cute. Amazing pictures 🙂
patsy - this is a fantastic idea!!
I’m putting one together TODAY
thanks for sharing 🙂
Karen B - Oh, I forgot! When I was a kid (long before you) we would ride the Zambizi Zinger! It was the best!
Kim - This is great. My husband is from Olathe, so we will be driving out to Kansas this summer and doing many of the things on your list. I really hope my kids get to see fireflies. It is so strange to me that these little bugs I grew up with are so foriegn to my children.
Anyhoo…great list!
Karen B - Such a cute idea. What caught my eye first was “World’s of Fun”! You must live close to Kansas City. Then the clincher, Royals game! Definitely. This great idea makes me wish my girls were little again. Sort of. Very fabulous and fun idea. Hope your summer is great! Karen
lauren - i LOVE this! my boyfriend and i make a summer to-do list also! it’s fun to write down all that you want to do or aim to do and then get to check them off when you do em! so fun. hope summer is treating you well!!
Rach - My favorites are – Jump in puddles (which is so hard to do in LA), outdoor movie, and catch fireflies (again, hard to do out here where they do not exist). Can’t wait to see the posts that document the completion of your list. So much fun!!
michelle allen - I LOVE your list!!! I really love lists in general but I love the way you write your list and the fun things that you include. You are an amazing woman Meg!
kasey - ha.
love it.
and look at you…i bow to you blog queen!
Traci - i just love your summer list. I remember it from last year and thought it was an awesome idea.
alicia kristine - you rock! I’ve been reading you for a while, never comment… admire the way you inspire me… and I’m going to get my old, delicious house one day;)
Kristi - I am so doing this this summer. love it.
Angi - We made a list this year…I copycatted (probably not a word) yours from last year! My girls have been having lots of fun with it. Thanks for such super ideas!
Susan - Did a list at the beginning of our summer (before Memorial Day), lost the list in the backyard somewhere discussing ideas, and am now happy to have made another list tonight that I’m going to post for safekeeping! Thanks for the much needed incentive to redo our list and refocus our summer.
Steph @ Problem Solvin Mom - I’ve been a total copycat ever since I saw your list last year – we do a much better job of making time for the important (and of course fun!) things when we have them written down and visible. I did one for Christmas last year too, made into a countdown chain with something on each link.
Aubrey - This summer I copied you (from reading other summer lists). One of our not-gonna-happens is “have Mom’s baby early”. It would be nice, but I don’t want to spend the summer in the NICU. Hopefully the rest of the list keeps ME on target.
Lori - Great ideas as usual! Is it stupid to feel that this is so much harder with teenagers? I wistfully remember the cute things they wanted to do over the summer. Now it would probably include “see boyfriend as much as I can” (bleh) and “hang out with people other than mom and dad”. Sigh…
Debby Graber - I had a coffee can when the kids were little and we wrote out ideas of “things to do” on little slips of paper and put them in the can. When the kids said “I’m bored” I would have them draw from the can. They could do what was on the list. They were not allowed to say they were bored if they chose not to do that activity.
kate - this is such a great idea. i have one for my summer on my blog, and it is a great motivator to actually do the things you enjoy.
and i’m definitely adding catching fireflies to mine now. can’t believe i forgot that one.
Gretchen - Okay, that’s it. You got me. I’ve been talking about doing something like this for the past three weeks, but I finally just pulled out the poster board!
BTW, I’m glad you mentioned that your dog is named Waffles, because I thought y’all just wanted to take a walk carrying along some waffles in your pockets or something. Which seemed odd. But who’s to judge?
Jennifer Dawn - I do this every summer! Love it! Another idea is to put each “boredom buster” in a jar and draw one out each day. Each day you wait with great anticipation…What will we do today?
simply stork - what a great idea :o) we might just need to do the same.
~simply~
ps…love your dogs name :o) so cute!
Tricia - Love this! Tomorrow is the first official day of summer break. I think we will do this.
Thanks.
*Tricia
LissyLou - love this!
Mary DeTurris Poust - Hi. I’m a new fan of your blog. On my blog today, I linked back to you. I used your summer list to illustrate the post (with a link on rollover). Hope that’s OK. Let me know if it’s not. Here’s the link: http://notstrictlyspiritual.blogspot.com/2009/06/to-do-list-worth-keeping.html
the wild raspberry - we went to deanna rose last week and the zoo yesterday {ugh it was sooo hot} but we had lots of fun!
xo
chasity
tinycandi - What an awesome idea! The girls come home in about an hour…I think we’re going to copy this idea! I hope you don’t mind! It’s such a wonderful idea!
Sheryl - I just had to share that while I was going through my favorite new preschool blogs (I am also a preschool teacher), I recognized Annie on one of them! I finally put two and two together and realized this was your Annie’s preschool! What a small world. And now I realize why you’d say that her preschool is wonderful. Wow, what an amazing blog her teacher has! Anyways, I thought it was too funny and wanted to share.
Sheryl
Patti - i’m totally copying your idea. hope you don’t mind. that’s a compliment, right? like on ni hao kailan – sing it with me… “when someone copies you, it just means that they really like it too!!” have a wonderful week! 🙂
Anne - I love reading your blog, you are such a creative and cool person/mom. I found you blog through an interior decorators and thought it was so neat, i’ve been reading all your old post. I don’t mean to sound like a stocker, but I have found myself reliving childhood almost through your daughter Annie, because my name is Annie. I was born with a heart murmur, luckily after a lot of tests throughout life (i’m 24 now) and found out it isn’t harmful. (I just have to drink twice the amount of water and stay away from unusually large amounts of caffeine) I had to go to the children’s hospital in columbus ohio and was scared like she was..so many things about your little Annie remind me of myself.. especially the independence, and the nesting thing she does in bed! I don’t know if that’s a common thing or not but I still do it.
Anyway, just wanted to say hello and tell you again that you are a very creative and cool mom, if you don’t hear it enough.
have a wonderful evening–Annie
Jo Paulino - I’m such the type of person that loves to have my goals set out in front of me, and I like this idea. I do the mini notebook, but I don’t have it out in front of me! So creatively well done 🙂
pve - What, no fishing, no making of mud pies, no fort building, no skinny-dipping…shame on you.
Jane - I’m so glad you did this because Waffle is my *favorite* blog dog!
Marjorie - great idea!
Starnes Fam - Really cute idea. Fun to see some stuff we do, too….I always think blogger friends are in another world….and then I see stuff I know!
Kelly - Brilliant! My kids are still in school. They go to year-round. But their “summer break” (6 weeks) starts Friday and my list of things to do is long. I already have a boredom busters list to hang up in the playroom. I think I need one of these too!
sassafrasanne - what a fab idea. 🙂
rachel - Such a good idea, I’m going to get cracking and organize a list on Saturday which is the first day of my holidays….. roll on weekend…. 😀
Marcie Bowman - Looks like you’ll have a great summer!! I totally stole this idea from you from last year (and gave you credit). I think I was more into the list than the kids, but they’ve had a ball marking things off. Here’s our list:
http://marcie-bowman.blogspot.com/2009/05/summer-list.html
Just an FYI, I’m a friend of Frank and Amy who are friends with Russ and Jen. That’s how I’ve hooked up to your blog. 🙂
gina - Last year, I complied and posted this list of 150+ things to do in summer:
http://unpinklife.blogspot.com/2008/06/150-ideas-for-summer-fun.html
I then printed it out and crossed things off as we did them- the girls loved having specific ideas when boredom hit. Each girl also made a top ten request list off of the master list and I am happy to report that each one got finished -there were some crossovers;)- ! Being intentional makes even a lazy day of lounging around less “boring”- if you can cross it off a list when it’s done. 🙂
pam - deanna rose…across the street from me. 😉 come visit.
Sharla - Love this idea – thanks for reminding me and the inspiration. If you guys DO make it to KC this summer, let me know if a photo session up here would be possible 🙂
angela conklin - Love me a list!!! This is such a great idea. Is your goal to get them all checked off???
emily - this is such an awesome idea!!! we are going to have to make a summer to do list too!
Kelly - What a GREAT idea. Thank you for sharing with all of us blog addicts :).
Kari - That’s a great idea… I remember summers of things I watned to do but since they didn’t get wrote down they never happened! I love that you have Worlds of Fun… I miss that place! I know live right down the road from a Six Flags but nothing will ever compare to school and summer trips to Worlds of Fun, it was always the best!!
Shelane - so if you get a chance, can i get the specifics on the chocolate paint color in the bedroom? i’m a paint-color-loser and need all the help i can get.
great pics, btw. hopped over from calico
andrea d. - I love your lists! Were you able to finish most of the list you made last Fall when the kids went back to school?
Sharri - Love it!
adrienneK - this is such a neat idea! i will have to get our girls together to make one 🙂
Laura Phelps - we tried something like this once…we failed miserably. maybe this summer? we’ll see. I need to put “make the list” on my list.
Vicki Archer - GReat idea, fabulous list…but where to start…xv
Tracy - What a great idea! I may have to incorporate this kind of list into our summer as well – of course, ours will only be done on the weekends and my kids are both 15 yo instead of little like yours, so our list will probably not consist of “catching frogs” – *sigh* I miss the days when they were younger and more fun and less whiney! HA!
And, sad but true, we do not have a Sonic close to our house – which is unheard of considering that I am from the South and we had Sonics all over our town where we used to live – New Jersey is just a weird place, I guess! LOL Oh well… enjoy your summer fun and I can’t wait to see the pictures of all of your adventures with the kiddos! :o)
Lisa - YOU MY DEAR ARE AWESOME!!! DID YOU GET YOUR HAIR CUT YET?
HUGS FROM MAINE
Heather @ Cookie Mondays - Fun! We’re doing something siimilar. All of our to-do items are folded up on tiny papers and will be randomly chosen from a hat each day.
Kelly - a dog was on our “never” list too… but I wouldn’t trade this silly beast for ANYTHING. 🙂
Happy Summer to you and yours!
Cath W - My goodness! I stumbled onto your blog late last week, and every day since have managed to grab a few minutes here and there to keep reading – and I just finished all the way back to your first blog! This is the first time I have done this with a blog – I promise I’m not some weirdo stalker! I have thoroughly enjoyed it all, and have seen a lot of your kids in mine (Josh is Sean and Lucy is Talby, though she looks more like Annie).
Truly lovely writing – thank you so much.
Dina - love this idea! will work on ours this weekend! 🙂
Lindy @ Glimpses - What an awesome idea! You might need another sheet of posterboard though!!
amber - That is a great idea. I need to make one for my husband. Thanks for the idea!
purejoy - i wanna play too!! of course, i have an 18 and a 19 year old and am afraid most of our list would have a little *.
*not accompanied by a parent.
making homemade ice cream is SOOOOOO on my list! (raspberry white chocolate)
i’m so happy about your list. and that you followed through on last years and got waffle. the most adorable dog in the world!!
Kathy - Great idea and list! My 15th year old would only have two things -SLEEP and SHOP! Well you know your teen probably has the same list! Have a great day!
joy c. tilton - What a great idea, you are a super Mommie!
ali - We went to Deanna Rose a few months ago before it got so darn hot. Hope you guys had fun, we sure did! 🙂
Trina McNeilly - Can I be your kid? What a fun idea!!!!!
Cathie - love that you are doing this again
I have already started mine and hope to post later this week :o)
thanks for the inspiration again
Anna Marie - Worlds of Fun has a new roller coaster this year.
I really want to go to a Royals game, too. I love going, even if they don’t win.
Do you guys go to the Omaha Zoo? Have you been before?
Shannan - I have thought about your ’08 list so many times as Summer approached! I guess it’s not too late to make our own. Thanks for sharing.
momnipotent - This is a great idea – I think we’ll try it this summer!