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new year!!

2017 in photos.
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Kimberly Dial - So awesome! It’s January 19 & I’m just now watching this. Happy 2018 Meg to you & your family. May it be the best year ever!

Deb - Wonderful 2017 and enjoy your 2018!!

Lori - P.S. What song did you use for this video? Thanks!

Lori - I loved this so much that I watched it twice! Watching your life and family through happy, rainbow photos has been a joy for years! 🌈 Happy New Year, Meg!

amy jupin - the one thing i love soooooo much about your blog, your fam, your video, is that you always inspire me to pick up my camera and look for the GOOD. it’s everywhere, in every situation, in everything. thank you for reminding me again. i love you megan duerksen!

Amy - How lovely, that’s a lucky baby to be with such a wonderful family.
Much love xx

meg duerksen - Melissa – we are foster parents for that sweet baby. 🙂

Melissa Ann - I noticed a cute baby in the pics. Congratulations on becoming a grandma!

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happy new year!

2016 was a rough year it seemed.
i heard that over and over every where i went.
but it was so good too!
here’s my favorite pics from 2016 all together in one spot.   🙂


i always feel hopeful with the start of a new year…new calendar…a fresh start.
there’s a few big adventures i want to accomplish this coming year.
i am praying for discernment and wisdom as they play out.

thanks for reading this blog all these years.
it’s kind of a crazy thing!
thanks for the encouragement to keep writing or for what i shared.
you guys are awesome.

now – i have to clean out my bedroom from the christmas mayhem.

 

Angela Atkins - Lovely! What a great way to celebrate the year and your family.

meg duerksen - I love those plates!!! Thank you Cornelia!

cornelia krahn - I check everyday to see if you’ve written something new. I love your blog. I’m the one who gave you my vintage state plate collection so it was fun to see the Alabama plate. Happy New Year!

Kathi - Thanks for sharing for all these years! I love to see an email from FeedBlitz. You inspire me!

meg duerksen - oh Shar… we have plenty of problems – trust me! but we do have lots of fun too! thanks for reading!

meg duerksen - Jennibell – it’s called Praise Like Fireworks by Rend Collective. They are on repeat over here all the time so it had to be the band i choose. 🙂

meg duerksen - well… make me get all teary heidi! thanks for reading! i love dennis! 🙂

heidi - Your blog was the first one I ever read and it is still my absolute favorite. You are such an inspiration!!!! Thank you for everything you have done for my father-in-law’s business. What a blessing you are to the entire world!

Cheryl - What a wonderful Flipagram! You have the cutest family! Thanks for sharing. I need to take more pictures! 🙂

jennibell - Very fun!!! Looks like a great year for your crew!! What is the music/song you were playing?

Tracy Koeppen - Thank you, Meg, for writing this blog!! And taking beautiful pics!! I love to follow along.

It makes me sad whenever I hear another mention of 2016 being a “terrible year”. We had a great year!!

Lori - That was so fun! Love your photos, and I loved that there were tiny videos tucked in there 🙂 Happy new year!

jill - Love your blog and all of your t shirts you wear!

Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - Happy New Years! Have a great, great year!

Shar - U make me so happy! I wish my family could b half as wonderful and fun loving and joyful as yours. It’s a new year a new start

Monica - Thanks for your blog, I love reading it and I’m always inspired by you and your family pictures are so nice. Thanks so much

Heather S. - Yep – I’m one of those “rough year” people. It truly held so much good for us, but it ended on such a hard note with the death of one of our very best friends, only 47 years of age. It has been a very hard month. I am looking forward to moving forward – into 2017 with healing!

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rainbow rearranged

 

i just love pictures!
i put this together of all my instagram pics from 2015 and just smile so big as it plays.

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over the break i had to do something with poor annie’s room.
i knew she would be bringing more in at christmas and there was just no room.
she had SO many clothes that she was just living out of laundry baskets, never could find what she needed and everything was always wrinkled.
i say “she has so many clothes” meaning – summer clothes still out, last years clothes she’d outgrown, and all the clothes talby passed onto her that didn’t quite fit yet.
all in one space that is meant to hold about 1/3 of what it was holding.
i sat with her pretty much all day long and we organized.
we piled everything into groups – ALL pants… ALL shorts… long sleeve… short sleeve… etc.
she tried on so many things that day.
in the end she had one bag to donate, one that was for next year and three bags she’d outgrown!
suddenly she had gained all her floor space back in her room!
when we were finally organized i asked if she would like to rearrange her room since we had the time and it was so clean?
YES!
(i should’ve gotten out my real camera & taken these pics because they are grainy with my phone… but i didn’t)
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when we had her furniture the way she liked i recalled i had several things for her walls that i’d forgotten about!
seriously… my brain!
i found the giraffe from a shop called Makewells.
the frame is from target as well as the floral comforter.
her name pillow is from ChrissieGraceDesigns… special from a fundraiser way back when.  🙂

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her curtains were made from fabric at hobby lobby and i “lined” them with a flat sheet from walmart.

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she has more prints she’d like to hang on this wall yet but we need to get some colorful frames first.
the bunting up top was a gift from Joy’s Hope and the arrows came from AidiesHideaway.
and that is the 11×14 sized canvas in my shop.
it’s 25% off this week!! Use the code 25OFFPHIL48 at checkout.

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i found these shadow box type frames at TJMaxx this summer.
i found two at one store and a week later found two a another store… it was meant to be… right?
they are so darn cute and THE perfect shade of turquoise!
i hung scripture cards from TheLovelyWords on the clips.
it looks like her shop doesn’t have any right now but i saw these cute ones too when i searched etsy.  🙂

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all of her furniture is second hand… that’s just how we roll.
add a coat of paint and it’s like new.
it’s pretty much that way in our whole house actually…

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and just in case you wondered how it looked before… here is the link to when we surprised her with a room makeover in 2014!
complete with paint colors, a young Stanley and a little video.

 

meg duerksen - Karen click the link at the end of this post to the original post about her room.

Karen - Hi– did you ever post the colors for this room? My daughter loves it and we’d love to do this exact rainbow in her room. Thanks so much!

meg duerksen - julie i wish i had some tips but i am the world’s laziest painter. 🙂 i spray paint when i can which is what i did for annie’s bed and bedside table because the colors were so bright. the dresser was semi gloss trim paint. some times i sand and prime… sometimes i don’t. just depends on the project.

Amy Lynne - Your flipbook was so much fun! What a great idea!

Kirsten - So happy!! I love it. I went to Target today and spied some awesome curtains. Brought them home, hung them up and then thought, hmmm, I’ve seen these before. And then it dawned on me. They are nearly identical to A’s new ones! I’m feeling so validated in my life choices now. 🙂 🙂

Stacy - My middle daughter and Annie must be kindred spirits! She wanted orange and pink in her room…we compromised and she has a seriously gorgeous sunrise orange ceiling and light gray walls. The pinks are on her bed and she is so happy. Now that I’m seeing those cute shadow boxes with the clips, I think I may have to do a DIY for that same daughter’s room. Thanks for sharing!

Julie - Just curious, what is your process for painting furniture? Thanks 🎨😊

cyndilohoo - That video made me smile! Beautiful way to look back at the year.

Gevay - Happy New Year, Meg! I loved your Flipagram! The colorful pics speak joy.

Whitni - Her whole room is so happy! I seriously wish I could hire you as my interior decorator. I love your use of color!

Krista - Beautiful video! Brought tears to my eyes and you picked the most perfect song to go with the photos.

amy jupin - it’s so bright and cheery and FUN.
you are so good at decorating with that in mind.
you know me…colorphobic!
also that video is RAD!!!!

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